EARLY SOVIET ART IN THE FACE OF POLITICAL POWER

Avant-garde art pretended to be a natural ally to the new Communist State power. The last denied its allegiance to “Left Art”. In fact, what was seen as Soviet-friendly gestures by new artists tended to imaginary “happy future” while the State demanded ideology as a vision of power instruments. At the same time the strong presence of criminal subculture in Early Soviet literature and film art seems to have been welcome to political elite in Soviet Russia. What to Academic and Neo-Traditionalist painters in 1920-s they clearly displayed a kind of Apocalyptic feelings and expectations on behalf of the Civil War and the new reality dominated by growing Bolshevik aggressiveness and terror.