Stalinist

When the Stalinist regime turned against modernist "bourgeois" art, Malevich was persecuted.
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Even before the Stalinist anti-Semitic campaigns in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Shostakovich showed an interest in Jewish themes. He was intrigued by Jewish music's "ability to build a jolly melody on sad intonations.

By the late 1920s, however, attitudes had changed, and the movement lost much of its popularity at home, especially after being condemned by the Stalinists.

Here, the abstraction of painting attained and fully revealed the abstraction of thought and embodied the movement's principles. Malevich was given a cold shoulder by the Stalinist regime, ...

Hitler brought the Nazis to power in Germany, establishing a ruthless dictatorship, equalled only by the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union.

He eventually grasped this, and when he was asked to provide a major work for the Mexican Exhibition in Paris in 1952 he produced a coarse piece of pro-Stalinist and anti-Western propaganda which contained a suitably heroic likeness of the Soviet ...

Similar art purges have been conducted by several other totalitarian regimes: Stalinist Russia (1928-53) obliged its artists to conform to the Socialist Realism style, ...

In architecture, it excluded all but functional design within a traditional context, in a severe manner sometimes known as "Stalinist gothic." Be careful not to confuse socialist realism with social realism.

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