Cultural Resurgence in Soviet Russia, 1917–1935

This volume presents a new cultural history of the transformation of Russia to the Soviet Union. It looks at how literature, the sciences and the arts played a key role in the emergence from a largely agrarian economy to world order. It traces the multiple revolutions that resulted in the overthrow of the Tsar’s regime during the First World War; society, polity, cultural life, and the economy saw major upheavals as the country went into turmoil following the War and the revolution. However, the