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Openness and Idealism
Soviet Posters 1985û1991
- Skira (T&H)
- by Snap Editions
- 9788857245645 | EN | HB
Confronted with a failing economy and the twilight of the Communist mode of governance, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev rolled back many of the core tenets of the Soviet Union. In this era of Perestroika (Restructuring), the Soviet Union opened itself to foreign investment, inaugurated a process of de
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Publisher | Skira (T&H) |
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ISBN | 9788857245645 |
Author(s) | Snap Editions |
Publication date | November 2022 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | 280 x 250 mm |
Pages | 288 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
Confronted with a failing economy and the twilight of the Communist mode of governance, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev rolled back many of the core tenets of the Soviet Union. In this era of Perestroika (Restructuring), the Soviet Union opened itself to foreign investment, inaugurated a process of decentralization, promised transparency, and accepted previously prohibited critiques of the government. The second development, Glasnost (Openness), brought with it artistic alternatives to the state-endorsed Social Realism, with posters becoming vehicles for confronting the history of the USSR from the vantage of its impending dissolution. As a result, Glasnost became a movement that began a new chapter in the visual culture of Russia that preserved the fiery polemics of resistance and socialist ideology. <