Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disappointment was as great as the hope. By 1930, Stalinist terror had set out to destroy all that was best in the visual culture of Russia: painting, sculpture, design, film. By 1950, the destruction was done. To this day the most brilliant moment of revolutionary aspiration in the history of Russian art remains not only unofficial but actively repressed within the borders of its own country. Last year the U.S.S.R. sent a mammoth consignment of modernist Russian art to the Pompidou Center's exhibition, "Paris-Moscow, 1900-1930"- while at the same time ensuring, by the threat of cancellation...
...appetite for information about early Russian modernism, however, grows daily in the West; and so the most interesting exhibition in the U.S. this summer is undoubtedly "The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This is the most intelligent survey of the subject yet done by any museum. It is not definitive, since its curators-Stephanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman of LACMA -decided to use material only from Western collections. But it is admirably precise in historical judgment and informed as to selection; and, strange to say, it is the first...
...Jones. Appearing often on Page One too, are offbeat profiles (an industrial spy, an Alaskan fur trapper), social problems (inflation's ravages, the trials of the elderly) and exotica from all over (crime in Hong Kong's Walled City, exiles working to restore the monarchy to Russia...
...historic turning point came when Hitler violated the pact, and his mechanized divisions drove deep into the Soviet Union. The all-but-crushed church called upon the faithful to defend Mother Russia and quickly raised 300 million rubles for the Red Army. In desperate need of a spiritual force that could bolster national solidarity, Stalin allowed the church more freedom. Since then, except for a strong antireligious period in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the church's right to peaceful coexistence with atheism has not been seriously threatened...
Government spokesmen profess pleasure with things as they are. So does Archbishop Nikodim, 59, who is substituting for the ailing Metropolitan Yuvenali as foreign affairs director of the church. "In the West, for some reason, thousands of Orthodox priests in Russia are considered nearly as traitors, and two or three [dissident] persons are considered to be the church," says Nikodim. "I don't know Father Dudko. Maybe he is a wonderful person. But I think groups that exist, or would like to exist, around Dudko and others are not for the benefit of the church, since our church finds...