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“We understand that we need to work on the Soviet past, and it’s a very complex past. But we also have 35 years—which is half of the 70 years of the Soviet period—in the post-Soviet period ...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Russians lost the unifying force that communism provided. In recent years, the Russian government has promoted the myth of the Great ...
This was an approach he saw mirrored in many Soviet propaganda posters. “Space is used to represent time because time is sort of slippery and space is something we see all around us, right?” One way ...
Soviet propaganda seized the moment. A whole narrative emerged showing how the future of work and productivity in the USSR should unfold over the coming decades.
Millions of Russians can recite lines from his other famous work -- the 1935 children's poem "Uncle Styopa," about an unusually tall police officer -- which continues to be taught in Russian ...
The “link between the Soviet regime and the Arab world” borrows from the Arab anti-Zionist propaganda produced by a Nazi fugitive in Egypt during the 1950s.
His work has appeared in a number of political opinion journals, and he has shared his insights with television and radio personalities across the country. More Stories by Noah Rothman Load Comments ...
Constructing Revolution explores the remarkable and wide-ranging body of propaganda posters as an artistic consequence of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Marking its centennial, this exhibition delves ...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will soon display recently rediscovered prints from the TASS Window Poster Studio, a Soviet group that made anti-Nazi propaganda during World War II.