Introduction. The Russian avant-garde and the aesthetics of anarchy : ideology, poetics, or politics?
Movements and ideas. The aesthetics of anarchy : definitions
Ideas : Bakunin, Tolstoy, and the Russian anarchists
Movements : Futurisms and the principle of freedom
Poetics. A game in hell : the poetics of chance and play
Victory over the sun and the theater of alogism
Deconstructing the canon : Russian Futurist books
Locating the avant-garde's social stance. The "social test" : the avant-garde and the Great War
The Suprematist party
Politics. Art, creativity, and Anarkhiia
The last revolt : politics of the Left Federation
The avant-garde and ideology
Conclusion. The historical paradigm : the avant-gardes and revolution.