Iconoclastic currents in the Russian revolution: destroying and preserving the past /Richard Stites -- Lenin's Bolshevism as a culture in the making / Robert C. Tucker -- The provisional government and its cultural work / Daniel T. Orlovsky -- The civil war as a formative experience / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- The myth of Lenin during the civil war years / Nina Tumarkin -- Cultural revolution and the fortress mentality / David Joravsky -- The Utopian and the heroic: divergent paths to the communist educational ideal / James C. McClelland -- Lenin and the freedom of the press / Peter Kenez -- The breakdown in production and distribution of printed material 1917-1927 / Jeffrey Brooks -- The city versus the countryside in Soviet peasant literature of the twenties: a duel of Utopias / Katerina Clark -- The birth of the Soviet cinema / Richard Taylor -- Constructivism and early Soviet fashion design / John E. Bowlt -- The birth of the new Soviet woman / Barbara Evans Clements -- Village women experience the revolution / Beatrice farnsworth -- Contradictions of revolution: juvenile crime and rehabilitation / Peter H. Juviler -- Iconoclasm and cultural revolution in China and Russia / Maurice Meisner.