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162 Chapter Twenty:

KHLEBEIKOV, SCIENCE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

Khlebnikov was not a scientist, but his work was a reflection in art of the scientific revolution of his age. He was not in the normal sense a political revolutionary—and certainly no Marxist—yet in important respects his concepts and work paralleled and gave artistic expression to the spirit of the Russian Revolution.