Boris Groys made a strong impression with his first book, Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin (1988)—but more so with its publication in French and English, as Staline, Œuvre d’art totale (1990) and The Total Art ...

In the USSR, so-called Socialist Realism came to the fore in ... while using a microscope to view the Black Square, art historians discovered a message underneath its black paint. Was this message ...

While the Soviet Union, certainly until Stalin’s death, was far from being a socialist state, the West depended on its continued demonisation in order to maintain stability in its own sphere of ...

Churchill in Moscow is set during the British Bulldog’s first meeting with Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from August 12-15 1942 when the communist dictator’s patience was seriously waning.

Two others, socialist and nationalist ... Putin has been in power for 25 years, almost as long as Joseph Stalin's 29, while Xi has been in power for 13 years, about half as long as Mao Zedong's ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.

In this course, you’ll work to overcome these fears as you start to learn the art of drawing a host of different styles, including still life, realism, abstraction, the human figure and portraiture.

Readers of the WSWS can now access a portion of the daily content of the website in audio format, which you can stream on your computer, phone or portable MP3 player. This will enable you to ...

Greg Grandin is Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of many books including The End of the Myth, The Empire of Necessity, Fordlandia; and his forthcoming, América, América: A New History of the ...