In one of the first monographs on the Russian avant-garde, Camilla Gray published The Russian Experience in Art in 1967 in which she explains "The Revolution gave reality to their activity and a long sought direction to their energies-for there was no question in their minds of not identifying their revolutionary discoveries in the artistic field with this economic and political revolution" (219). ... In the months immediately following the Russian Revolution of 1917, "reigning political powers elevated a cultural avant-garde to a level never since attained by modernism" (Barron and Tuchman ...

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This proved that he was politically able, and in good standing to be a possibility for Lenin's replacement. ... Other political advantages that Kamenev had were that he had been the Moscow party secretary, and the commissar of foreign trade. ... Politically speaking he was well placed to replace Lenin because in 1919 he was made chairman of the cominturn, and became a full member of the Politburo in 1921. ...

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There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... However, the economic reasons were secondary to the political needs of the communism. ... Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ...

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