What's hot: Pre-war original posters in good condition, particularly those by famous artists such as El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko. What's not: Modern reproductions of Soviet posters have no ...

They spoke in the village about the socialists who distributed broadcast leaflets in blue ink. In these leaflets the conditions prevailing in the factory were trenchantly and pointedly depicted, as ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The horrors and heroism of World War Two are given a fresh look in an Art Institute of Chicago exhibition of rediscovered Soviet propaganda posters, which depict Hitler as ...

Two discoveries, one in the Chicago Art Institute, and one following the disbandment of the British Communist Party have both recently led to the resurfacing of large caches of Soviet propaganda ...

A century after the USSR was formed (and more than 31 years after it was dissolved), its boldest ideas live on in the millions of posters it issued to inspire the Soviet masses. See how art, imagery ...

Since the collapse of the USSR almost 30 years ago, attitudes toward Socialist Realism - the predominant artistic style of the Soviet period - has kept changing among art historians. But for the ...

After the 1917 Revolution, art had a new official status in the Soviet Union as a positive force for shaping the future of the young State. The new structures and attitudes brought about by the ...