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Stills from Lev Kuleshov's The Death Ray (1925)

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Happy B’day to Alexander Rodchenko, cover design for “Novyi LEF” (New Left), No. 8-9, magazine of the Soviet avant-garde group “LEF” (Left Front of the Arts), 1927.

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Natan Al’tman, decoration designs for the first anniversary of the October revolution, Palace Square, 1918.

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Lost and found: a silent film hits the big screen after 100 years

A Russian documentary by renowned director, Dziga Vertov, that was once thought to be lost, has been restored and played for audiences at th

What a work of art! The Soviet avant-garde were no slouches. The following offers more background information on Vertov’s striking film “The History of the Civil War”.

Bringing the Bolshevik’s fight for communism and the authenticity, intensity, and commitment of its warriors into the core focus of his lens, Vertov amplifies these with imagery and style in order to capture the feel, force, and sense of what they were experiencing, so that it may not be forgotten. In short, the audience will better picture this war waged against Russian revolutionaries by armies of the Entente and soldiers of eager domestic counterrevolutionary factions. Without any other successful revolutions or workers’ states to protect them from the barrage of weapons that imperialism was then aiming at them, the fighting went on for years at such a great cost in human life and resources.

The White movement became frustrated and embarrassed, but to Entente capitalism the war was worth such dear sacrifice. Every means possible to avail were better, imposing embargoes aimed at starvation and poverty was more just really, than for the Red Army and rule by the masses to encroach upon the borderlands, or the thought of having to make peace negotiations with the great force threatening their Business League. As the Civil War winded down, the bourgeois lot was disappointed in its expectation. The Soviets were in power.

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Dziga Vertov’s Long-Lost ‘History of the Civil War’ Screens Again 100 Years After Its Last Showing

It was long presumed that a 12-minute snippet was all that still existed from the film.

Looking forward to being able to take a look at this. Occupying his attention on broadening our aesthetic experience of the Russian Civil War, Vertov’s film shows us about the world historical events, people, and places, etc. to which we would not otherwise have access.

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RUSSIAN DADA