I. Art in the First Years of the Revolution -- 'Picasso, this is not the new art.' -- The Spiritual Universe -- The ROSTA Windows (Russian Telegraph Agency) of Petrograd -- The Sevodnia Artel -- The VKhUTEMAS [Higher Art and Technical Studios] -- Wassily Kandinsky -- The Struggle Against Gravity -- The 'Renaissance' of Vitebsk -- II. Schools and Movements -- The Institute of Artistic Culture -- The Additional Element -- Elena Guro -- The Signal for a Return to Nature -- The End of the INKhUK -- Malevich's Second Peasant Cycle -- The Rebellion Against God -- The National 'Tone' of Colour -- Filonov and the Masters of Analytical Art -- The Kalevala -- Artistic Groups in the 1920s -- Sculpture, Porcelain and Textile Manufacture -- The Avant-Garde Stopped in its Tracks -- MAJOR ARTISTS -- The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), (renamed in 1928 The Association of Artists of the Revolution - AKhRR), 1922-1932, Moscow - Leningrad -- Circle of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad -- The Masters of Analytical Art (MAI), 1925-1932, Leningrad -- The Makovets, 1921-1925, Moscow -- The World of Art, 1898-1904, 1910-1924, St Petersburg - Moscow -- Monolith, 1918-1922, Moscow -- The New Society of Painters (NOZh), 1921-1914, Moscow -- Oktiabr (including the group Molodoi Oktiabr), 1930-1932, Moscow - Leningrad -- Painters of Moscow, 1924-1926, Moscow -- The Four Arts Society of Artists, 1925-1932, Leningrad - Moscow -- The Society of Moscow Artists (OMKh), 1927-1932, Moscow -- The Union of Youth, 1910-1914, 1917-1919, St Petersburg - Petrograd -- Nathan Altman (Vinnitsa, 1889 - Leningrad, 1970) -- Yuri Annenkov (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, 1889 - Paris, 1974) -- Sergei Bulakovski (Odessa, 1880 - Kratovo, 1937) -- Leon Bakst (Grodno, 1866 - Paris, 1924).

David Burliuk (Hamlet of Semirotovchtchina (now region of Kharkov), 1882 - Long Island, New York, 1967) -- Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985) -- Alexander Shevchenko (Kharkov, 1883 - Moscow, 1948) -- Yuri Schukin (Voronej, 1904 - Moscow, 1935) -- Maria Ender (St Petersburg, 1897 - Leningrad, 1942) -- Vera Ermolaeva (Petrovsk, 1893 - district of Karaganda, victim of Stalinist repression, 1938) -- Evguenija Evenbach (Krementchug, 1889 - Leningrad, 1981) -- Alexandra Exter (Belostok, 1882 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1949) -- Robert Rafailovich Falk (Moscow, 1886 - Moscow, 1958) -- Pavel Filonov (Moscow, 1883 - Leningrad, 1941) -- Natalia Goncharova (Negayevo, 1881 - Paris, 1962) -- Elena Guro (St Petersburg, 1877 - Uusikirkko, 1913) -- Lev Yudin (Vitebsk, 1903 - Leningrad, died on the front near Leningrad, 1941) -- Pyotr Kontchalovsky (Slaviansk, 1876 - Moscow, 1956) -- Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944) -- Valentin Kurdov (Mikhailovskoie, 1905 - Leningrad, 1989) -- Mikhail Larionov (Tiraspol, 1881 - Fontenay-aux-Roses, 1964) -- Vladimir Lebedev (St Petersburg, 1891 - Leningrad, 1967) -- Aristarkh Lentulov (Vorona, 1882 - Moscow, 1943) -- Lazar Lissitzky, known as El-Lissitzky (Potchinok, 1890 - Moscow, 1941) -- Ilya Mashkov (Hamlet of Mikhailovskaya, now district of Ourioupinsk, region of Volgograd, 1881 - Moscow, 1944) -- Kazimir Malevich (Kiev, 1878 - Leningrad, 1935) -- Mikhail Matiushin (Nijni-Novgorod, 1861 - Leningrad, 1934) -- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Khvalynsk, 1878 - Leningrad, 1939) -- Alexander Rodchenko (St Petersburg, 1891 - Moscow, 1956) -- Mikhail Sokolov (Yarloslavl, 1885 - Moscow, 1947) -- Nikolai Suetin (Miatlevskaya, 1897 - Leningrad, 1954) -- Vladimir Tatlin (Moscow, 1885 - Moscow, 1953) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Notes.