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From Censorship to Self-criticism: Debating Socialist Realism at the Moscow Union of Artists (MOSKh) in the 1930s

21 March 2016, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

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Room 433, UCL SSEES, 16 Taviton Street WC1H 0BW

Maria Mileeva (The Courtauld Institute of Art) examines socialist realism at the Moscow Union of Artists (MOSKh) during the 1930's, as part of the Centre for Russian Studies Modern Russian History seminar series.

Maria Mileeva is a Lecturer in Russian Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and a co-director of the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC). Her doctoral thesis, completed at The Courtauld in 2011, examined exhibitions of Western art in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s with a particular focus on the history of the State Museum of New Western Art (GMNZI), Moscow. Maria is a co-editor of Utopian Reality: Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond, with Christina Lodder and Maria Kokkori (Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2013). She is now working on a book on Socialist Realism.