Building a New World

The Cosmists 1917 - 1932

The Cosmists belong to the period of the Russian avant-garde, a well-mined period of the history of art, but, unlike other groups of that era, like the Jack of Diamonds, the Amaravella collective – the name they gave to themselves – is not well known.

Illustrated with many unpublished works, and mining a hitherto unknown archive of letters and postcards, Building a New World shows how the Cosmists symbolised both the breathless ascent of artists eager to build a new world; and the hopeless descent into repression and silence.

A Russian Ending

“I'm like a classic Bentley, nobody could ever accuse me of being cheap to run, and I'm worth every penny.”

That's how Edward (Ned) Lumley tells it.

"Life is very simple, it's either success or failure, own or rent, happy or unhappy, and for everyone else there's Torremolinos."
But that was before he met the Russians.
A novel about diamonds, a classic Bentley, and lots of other things...

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Opposing Forces

Navalny knows what he’s up against – “Putin’s main weapon is his ability to bribe the population.” But he also knows his fellow countrymen, for “there’s no one in the country who approves of palace-buying officials.”

They pass by Lenin's tomb many times, searching for a way forward. When it's much easier to talk revolution than to actually make it happen, how do you breach the walls of the Kremlin?

Here is a clarion call. The blueprint for a new Russia.

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