Introduction by Vladimir Tolstoy Documents Edited by Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova And Catherine Cooke : from Street Art of the Revolution

doi:10.4324/9781315005140-4

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Introduction by Vladimir Tolstoy Documents Edited by Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova And Catherine Cooke

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AGIT-PROP CRYSTALLIZED IN RUSSIA IN the years following the 1917 Revolution, with its clear sense of class differences and straightforward ideology. Add characteristics like the masses as hero, the use of architecture/urban space to reinforce political ideology, and the importance of mass participation beyond spectatorship, and one understands why the events that Tolstoy introduces have served practitioners the world over as a touchstone for agit-prop.