Joseph Stalin was no great lover of the arts, unlike other Communist leaders, but he recognised their power to stir his ...

The late American businessman Morgan Williams was deeply involved in promoting Ukrainian business but he also began ...

Endless debate over whether the ending of the composer’s Fifth Symphony represents a capitulation to Soviet demands or a ...

27 x 20 in. (68.6 x 50.8 cm.) ...

Buyanova was born in Ukraine but is a citizen of Russia, where she has lived and worked for three decades. Her lawyer Oscar ...

A new exhibition at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles reveals surprising connections between surveillance and art, and ...

Antisemitic propaganda poster issued in German ... was a Polish nobleman; Joseph Stalin was Georgian. After the Holocaust, however, many Soviet Jews felt official attitudes shifting once more ...

“The near torrent of works attempting to reconstruct and rectify the historical record of the Stalin era continues, and this one is a worthy example.”—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs “Hagenloh’s ...

They worked for official propaganda, denouncing ... mood of Soviet citizens and the fighting spirit of soldiers. Throughout the war, the three artists drew dozens of posters and caricatures ...

He revived the Stalin-era award a year ago. Putin has described the break-up of the Soviet Union as a tragedy and overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy in March by declaring Moscow's right ...

To this end he used not only diplomats of the Soviet embassy but also representatives of Soviet culture and art [See, for example, Document 2 ... including Prijono (an Indonesian politician and ...

Dozens of rooms showcase an amazing array of items from ancient torture devices, medieval (male) chastity belts and nomad fashion to early radios and televisions, Soviet-era posters and cosmonaut ...