Communism and Culture

Radu Stern taught Art History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and was invited to teach at the University de Bourgogne, France, the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and the University of Massachusetts, USA. Among his various research interests, the study of the European avant-garde is a privileged subject.Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA. His most recent book, co-authored with Kate C. Langdon, is Putin's Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century (2020).

• Chapter 1. Communism and Culture.- Chapter 2. Stalinist Culture.- Chapter 3. De-Stalinization.-Chapter 4. Censorship.- Chapter 5. Counterculture.- Chapter 6. Picasso, the Most Celebrated Communist After Stalin and Mao Zedong.- Chapter 7. Mao’s Cultural Revolution.- Chapter 8. The Che Image.- Chapter 9. Epilog: What Remains? Of Dreams, Passions, and Ashes.