Across One Sixth of the World
Dziga Vertov’s Across One Sixth of the World marked the height of the...
Category Archives: ERH 376WX
Stalin and the Muses
Personally, I have a much more heightened interest in the Sots-art...
The Artistic Journey of Aleksandr Deineka
Aleksandr Deineka lived and worked in the early beginnings of the...
Socialist Realism Revisionism and The Blue Space
This is The Blue Space by Arkady Rylov, and this was...
Tatlin and Faktura
This is Vladimir Tatlin’s “Counter-Relief,” one of the prime examples...
The (Anti-)Marxist/Communist Propaganda: The Storming of the Winter Palace
The grandest, albeit possibly ideologically destructive, early Soviet mass spectacle is...
The Soviet Distortion/Manipulation of Time as Propaganda
Once the Bolsheviks claimed power following the October Revolution of 1917,...
Alcoholic Discourse in the Russian/Soviet Historical Narrative
One of the most prevalent stereotypes of the Russian people is...
Lenin, Charismatic Leadership, and the Creation of the Soviet Cult of Personality
The above image is the sarcophagus of Vladimir Lenin, a primary...
