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Socialist Realism

  • Banks, Miranda, ed. The Aesthetic Arsenal: Socialist Realism Under Stalin. New York: The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, 1993.
  • Billington, James, H. The Face of Russia. TV Books, 1998.
  • Bird, Alan, A. History of Russian Painting. Phaidon, 1987.
  • Bown, Matthew Cullerne. Art Under Stalin. Phaidon, 1991.
  • Bown, Matthew Cullerne. Socialist Realist Painting. Yale University Press, 1998.
  • Bown, Matthew Cullerne and Daveid Elliott, eds. Soviet Socialist Realist Painting 1930s – 1960s. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 1992.
  • Bown, Matthew Cullerne and Brandon Taylor, eds. Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in a One-Party State, 1917-1992. Manchester University Press, 1993.
  • Causey, Susan, ed. Tradition and Revolution in Russian Art, Cornerhouse Publications, 1990.
  • Condee, Nancy (Ed), Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia. Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • Dudakov, Valery and David Elliott, eds. 100 Years of Russian Art. Barbican Art Gallery, 1989.
  • Efimova, Alla and Lev Manovich, eds. Textura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Elliott, David. New Worlds: Russian Art and Society 1900-1937. Thames and Hudson, 1986.
  • Fauchereau, Serge, ed. Moscow 1900-1930. Mallard Press, 1988.
  • Golomshtok, Igor. Totalitarian art in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the People's Republic of China. Collins-Harvill, 1989.
  • Gray, Camilla. The Russian Experiment in Art 1863-1922. Thames and Hudson, 1962.
  • Groys, Boris. The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship and Beyond. Princeton University Press, 1992.
  • Hayward Gallery. Art and Power: Europe under the dictators 1930-45. South Bank Centre,1995.
  • Kavtaradze, Sergei and Alexei Tarkhanov. Stalinist Architecture. Laurence King, 1992.
  • Lindey, Christine. Art in the Cold War. The Herbert Press, 1990.
  • Prokhorov, Gleb. Art Under Socialist Realism: Soviet Painting 1930-1950. Craftsman House, 1995.
  • Sheridan, Claire. Russian Portraits. Ian Faulkener Publishing, 1992.
  • Wood, Alan. Stalin and Stalinism. Routledge, 1990.