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IN JANUARY 1918 the Russian Soviet Republic was the first state in the world to officially support the avant-garde.
Fired by the revolution’s socialist ideology, artists rejected the tsarist regime’s fussy forms and fusty techniques, to embrace the latest technology.
They incorporated industrial forms into art, design, architecture and film which epitomised and promoted modernity.
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