MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE IN RUSSIA IN 1918—1919

This article is devoted to a unique situation in the field of monumental art in Russia in 1918—1919, which has no parallel in history. A large-scale initiative to form a new art, information and ideologically saturated city environment by means of monumental sculpture and architecture of small forms was carried out during severe post-war devastation, famine, civil war in the country. It sounds like a paradox; however, the heyday of monumental sculpture began after the 1917 October Revolution.