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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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40 years ago, a refusenik made art of the Soviet Jewish tragedy. At 82, he is seeing its first English translation.
Against this backdrop, as the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan ... but as with all forms of art, it is a work of literary imagination,” Shayer-Petrov said, sitting at his living room table ...
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Ukraine’s Forbidden Frescoes
Ukrainian painter Mykhailo Boichuk and his circle of socialist artists perished in Stalin’s 1930s repression, destroying much ...
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A battle for memory is playing out at Russia's Gulag Museum
She was replaced by Olga Galaktionova, the director of the State Museum and Exhibition Centre, Rosizo, who was known for staging blockbuster exhibitions that glorified Soviet art. Anatoly ...
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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. Described ...