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As a true portrait master, he painted Soviet leaders, such as Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, as well as elite representatives of the communist party, for which he received the unofficial title of ...
27 de oct. de 2009 · Soviet expansionism into Eastern Europe fueled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they perceived as U.S. officials’ bellicose ...
29 de dic. de 2016 · After the collapse of the USSR, Vogue Magazine launched in Russia in 1998. Editor in chief Aliona Doletskaya remembers its difficult beginning, in the midst of an economic crisis. Show more.
8 de dic. de 2015 · Matchbox label, USSR, c. 1957. One of many label designs celebrating the first living being in space. Text reads ‘The First Sputnik Passenger – the dog “Laika”’’.
23 de nov. de 2018 · A new exhibition of Soviet photography reveals images that were both propaganda and artistic experiments. Fiona Macdonald talks to its curators about the porous border between truth and recorded ...
In total, the portraits cover an area 50 meters wide and 70 meters high. The mountain could be seen along one of popular Soviet tourist routes and so, of course, it quickly gained popular renown.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 ...
