1. Transition to Socialist Realism: 1920s-1930s Ilya Il’f (1897-1937); Yevgeny Petrov (1903-42)

2. The “Cult” of Ostap Bender: In Ukraine: Plaque and Chair, Ostap Bender Square, Odessa; Kharkov; Starobel’sky

3. The “Cult” of Ostap Bender: In Russia: Piatigorsk; Saint Petersburg; Elista, Kalmykia; Bender and Vorobianinov, Sverdlovsk

4. Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895-1958) (Photos from a communal apartment)

5. Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) (photo 1929) Dmitry Shostakovich, Mayakovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhol’d; Aleksandr Rodchenko

6. Vsevolod Meyerhol’d (1874-1940) (photo 1939) Prisypkin thawing out; Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) (1923)

7. Rodchenko and Mayakovsky Posters, including Lily Brik (Leningrad State Publishers, “In All Spheres of Knowledge,” 1924): “The Profsoyuz is a Blow to Women’s Slavery, Defender of Women’s Labor” (1925) Read the magazine The Young Guard (1924) Nowhere Else Other Than in Mossel’prom (1925)

8. Rodchenko’s work: Photos (Woman talking on telephone; ; “Sculptures” (Spatial Construction); Man on a Ladder; Pioneer Girl (1930); Stairs (1930); White Sea Canal Project (1933)

9. Rodchenko’s photos of the circus, including the famous “Rhine Wheel” (1940)

10. Fyodor Gladkov (1883-1958); Magnitogorsk, 1920s-30s; Valentin Kataev (1897-1986); Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-84); The Don River, Rostov Oblast

11. Aleksandr Zhdanov (1896-1948) Yury Olesha (1899-1960); Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-75); Nikolai Leskov (1831-95)