Introduction / John Milner --
'The new world of the mass man' / Natalia Murray --
Soviet art in review : 'fifteen years of artists of the Russian Soviet Republic' in Leningrad, 1932 / Masha Chlenova --
The 'most important art'? : Soviet film-making in the 1920s / Ian Christie --
Chronology / Natalia and Nicholas Murray --
1. Salute the leader. Creating the Soviet myth / Natalia Murray --
2. Man and machine. Mechanisation takes command / John Milner --
3. Brave new world. Constructors of the future in search of the new / Zelfira Tregulova and Faina Balakhovskaya --
4. Cultural heroes. Heroes of the past living in the future / Natalia Murray --
5. Kazimir Malevich. Kazimir Malevich / John Milner --
6. Fate of the peasants. Farming and famine / John Milner --
7. Eternal Russia. Echoes of orthodoxy / Nicoletta Misler --
8. New city, new society. The life of artists in 1920s Russia / Evgenia Petrova ; Building for socialism / Christina Lodder --
9. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. The active gaze / John E. Bowlt --
10. Stalin's utopia. Soviet sports and games as propaganda / Mike O'Mahony.