Diplomatic realignment carried Soviet avant-garde art into Western Europe.

Evidence

Weimar Germany was the main conduit through which the influence of the Russian avant garde reached the West. The treaty of Rapallo of April 1922 between the two pariahstates of the Versailles peace restored some of the strong links between Russia and Germany that had existed before the Revolution. These connections were cultural as well as economic and military. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 246

Categorization

• XREF: Material infrastructure — the Rapallo treaty — shaping aesthetic circulation; a concrete instance of the economic conditioning of culture that grounds the Marxist critique.