* Russian Futurism

Test Dept were largely inspired by Russian Futurism and toured to support the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ).

Futurism was a largely Italian and Russian movement, although it also had adherents in other countries, England and Portugal for example.

* Russian Futurism

Nitzer Ebb was seen as a totality, comprising music, art and culture, manifesting itself as a Nitzer Ebb Produkt ( an homage to the band Kraftwerk ), which saw all advertisements, fliers, record sleeves, letterheads, T-shirts, and other objects all sharing a collective identity that was heavily influenced by Russian Constructivist art, Italian Futurism, totalitarian imagery, and Expressionism.

He embraced the new movements of Russian Futurism laid out by his idols, Khlebnikov, Kazimir Malevich, and Igor Terentiev, among others.

Vasily Ivanovich Gnedov (), better known by the pen name Vasilisk Gnedov (; 3 March 1890 — November 20, 1978 ), was one of the most radically experimental poets of Russian Futurism, though not as prolific as his peers.

* Chapter Nine of G. Janecek, Zaum: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism

Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh or Kruchonykh or Kruchyonykh () ( February 21, 1886-June 17, 1968 ), a well-known poet of the Russian " Silver Age ", was perhaps the most radical poet of Russian Futurism, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk and others.

Vladimir Mayakovsky ( 1893 – 1930 ) was a Russian poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.

One of the most radically experimental poets of Russian Futurism, Gnedov's Poem of the End consisted of its title alone on a blank page.

Janine Hauthal: When Metadrama Is Turned into Metafilm: A Media-Comparative Approach to Metareference / Andreas Böhn: Quotation of Forms as a Strategy of Metareference / Erika Greber: ‘ The Media as Such ’: Meta-Reflection in Russian Futurism – A Case Study of Vladimir Mayakovsky ’ s Poetry, Paintings, Theatre, and Films

The Museum's collection represents some of the leading artists of the first half of the 20th century and many of the major movements of modern art in this period: Fauvism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Constructivism, the De Stijl movement and Surrealism, French art, from the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists to the School of Paris including works of Chaim Soutine, and key works by Pablo Picasso from the Blue and Neo-Classical Period to his Late Period, and Surrealists works of Joan Miró.

Italian Futurism influenced Russian Futurist cinema ( Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Aleksandr Dovzhenko ) and German Expressionism.

* Russian Futurism

However, the influence of Russian Futurism is much in evidence in Goncharova's later paintings.

* Russian Futurism, a sister movement in Russia.

The name as well as the design is a reference to Futurism and its prominent Russian exponent Vladimir Mayakovsky.

The artificial language zaum of Russian Futurism was described as " language of the birds " by Velimir Khlebnikov.

Constructivism was a post-World War I development of Russian Futurism, and particularly of the ' corner-counter reliefs ' of Vladimir Tatlin, which had been exhibited in 1915.

Some of these were motifs and the design aesthetic was derived from French Decorative Cubism, German Bauhaus, Italian Futurism, and Russian Constructivism.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

At the State Department, hard-bitten Russian experts complained that the Capitol was out of its wits.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.