Art of the Commune: Politics and Art in Soviet Journals, 1917-20

In October 1917 the Bolshevik Party overthrew the Provisional Government of Russia, established in February, and replaced it with a Council of People's Commissars committed to destroying capitalism and the bourgeoisie and to establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, as a prelude to the ultimate creation of a fully socialist society. The previously exiled radical political opposition had become the ruling establishment.