Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society, 1921-1929

Offering a detailed cultural, political, economic and social history of developments in Russia in the 1920s, this text presents a picture of cultural diversity and rejection of the dictatorship, censorship and repression of the Communist Party through many means, including unauthorized protest, religion, jazz music and poetry. The author argues that these trends, if left unchecked, endangered the Communist Party’s monopoly of political power.