Notes on Russian Constructivism 1919 - 1924 Tuesday 28 September 10

• Russian Constructivism was an art movement connected with what was happening in Russia at that time, after the revolution made art that had never been done before, they wanted to leave the past behind.
• Russia was under a Autocratic leadership.
• In the late 1800 most people in Russia were Serfs who were owned by the Tsar and factory workers, as Russia was mainly a underdeveloped agricultural state.
• In 1905 there was a mini revolution which formed the Emancipation of the Serfs and they became lower class citizens.

• The First World War.
• Russia left the war in 1917 because they lacked in technology.
• 1917 was the Russian Revolution, the revolution happened because the country was left flattened after the war and it was time for a new leader.
• New leader of Russia in 1917 was Vladamir Lenin (1870-1924)

• Russian Civil War 1917, between the Bolsheviks and the White movement form by soldiers from the West.