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Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes. By Martin Puchner. Princeton University Press; annotated edition, 2005. Paperback, 320 pages.

"From Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto down to the avant-garde theatre of the present, the manifesto is, as Martin Puchner demonstrates in this dazzling, brilliantly original, and deeply learned book, 'an act of self-foundation and self-creation,' unique in its exhortation to action, not by means of lofty principles but through its artistic form. In its fusion of the political and the poetic as they coexist in twentieth-century movements from Futurism to Situationism, Poetry of the Revolution is one of the few indispensable studies of the avant-garde. In a very crowded field, it stands out, quite simply, as a classic." (Marjorie Perloff, author of "The Futurist Moment" and "The Vienna Paradox")

Эстетическое самосознание русской культуры. 20-е годы XX века. Серия: Русская культура XX века: избранные тексты. Издательство: РГГУ, 2003 г. Твердый переплет, 720 стр. (Aesthetic self-consciousness of Russian culture. The 20s of the XX century. Series: Russian culture XX century, selected texts. "RGGU", 2003. Hardcover, 720 pages.

This anthology presents a wide spectrum of material from the history of aesthetic thought in the Soviet period (1917-1932). It includes the poliphony of aesthetic concepts in the 1920s; the various interpretations on art, those defined before the revolutions as well as those born after October 1917.

It is constructed according to the internal logic of aesthetic debates of the 1920s, and includes essays fixing the 10s-20s artistic crisis; materials group around artistic discoveries and experiments of the period; representational fragments from works on art sociology; and works, opening the poetic of literature and art in the XX century.