The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904-1953Nikolay Punin (1888 1953) was the most articulate Russian Soviet art critic of the 1920s. He strongly advocated Constructivism, an avant garde impulse that favored mechanomorphic abstraction and proclaimed a movement to bring art into the center of popular life. In the United States, he is perhaps best remembered for his love affair with Anna Akhmatova, one of the great poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the first English translation