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Life-size Lenin among Soviet art up for auction
A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...
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Lenin was right and Fukuyama was wrong
It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...
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Soviet-era propaganda art found in Cotswolds and to be put up for auction
‘Monumental’ paintings from the era of the Soviet Union dating from the 1920s to the early 1990s - all from a single collection and chronicling some of the most turbulent years of the 20th ...
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Finland’s Lenin museum shifts focus amid tensions with Russia
A museum in Finland was long known as the last museum in Europe dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding father of the Soviet Union. While the museum long symbolized the ...
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Life-size Lenin among Soviet art up for auction
Soviet Union founder Lenin is depicted in a huge portrait A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction.