"Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writing…
The great experiment: the Moscow Museum of Painterly Culture, 1918-1928 -- The center of artistic life: the Peoples' School of Art in Vitebsk, 1919-1923 -- The last citadel: the Petrograd Museum of Artistic Culture GINKhUK, 1919-1926 -- Epilogue.
"This is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials David R. Shearer finds that mo…