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The subject of this article is agitprop fabrics manufactured in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk region of Russia in the 1920s and 1930s and now held at the Dmitry Burylin Museum of Local History in Ivanovo. T...
After the death of Stalin in 1953, political change came to the Soviet Union. Censorship remained in force and artistic themes and means of expression were still controlled by the Party. This period,...
The post-revolutionary wave of artists attempted to retain some formal freedom. They painted pictures thematically corresponding to the spirit of the new age, yet lying within the stylistic framework...