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Post Camp

Soviet art wasn't quite the gulag we thought it was.

Socialist Realist Painting
By Matthew Cullerne Bown
Yale University Press; 506 pages; $75

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Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts.

All artwork from Socialist Realist Painting courtesy of Yale University Press.All rights reserved..