Russian Civil War propaganda had a bold and convincing style. Posters adorned urban sites, while trains draped in patriotic ...

The Soviet Union protested this “theft” of its citizens. But it was a coup for the United States. The choice of DPs to live a free life in the West, and the West’s welcome of them, became an important ...

On January 25, 1950, after some hesitation, the Soviet Union officially recognized Indonesia upon request from ... development of active mutual contacts in the fields of science, culture, literature, ...

"Monumental Propaganda" is a strategy proposed by Vladimir Lenin of employing visual monumental art as an important means for propagating revolutionary and communist ideas. The plan had the ...

I had seen some of the interior art and text at that point, and I was intrigued by the way the tone of both ... chunky book gilded with a colorful gold foil cover and illustrated with bold graphics of ...

until the death of one of them destroyed the union. Young artists Mikhail Kupriyanov and Porfiry Krylov met in the early 1920s as students of the Higher Art and Technical Studios (Vkhutemas), the ...

After the start of the Cold War, in a second phase, “propaganda becomes seen as something that that the other guys do, that only the Soviet Union and totalitarian societies do,” Anthony tells THR.

In a globalized world, art and culture serve as powerful forms of communication ... The U.S. State Department funded jazz tours in Eastern Europe, using American music to counter Soviet propaganda and ...