Russia, during the Revolution and the the decade that followed, saw experiments and achievements in the graphic arts that were as exciting and seminal as the parallel developments in painting and literature. Often they involved the same personalities - Lissitzky, Malevich, Mayakovsky, for example. But the record in the graphic arts has been less well documented; few books, illustrations, or posters have survived or been accessible. Szymon Bojko, a leading Polish writer on the arts who has regular access to archives in Moscow and who introduces illustrations of material in some cases never before seen in the West, draws together the threads in a most timely and revealing survey. He traces the traditional influence of Russian folk art, as well as the impetus gained from Futurist poetry and Cubist art, from Dada, Constructivism, and Supremacism. He reveals the incredible explosion of artistic theory and talent that accompanied, and was available to the Revolution.