An apocryphal quote from Uncle Joe Stalin was that artists in the Soviet Union should be the ‘engineers of human souls’.

The life-changing consequences were immediate: Shrayer-Petrov was stripped of his academic medical position and soon thereafter, tossed out of the Union of Soviet ... forms of art, it is a work ...

A drawing in the exhibition, by Tatlin’s student Mykola Triaskin, shows some young men ... art quite useless. Tatlin would have hated the idea, of course, but learning how the Soviet Union ...

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.