Monuments
May 1993archive
What to do with your Socialist-Realist art
Budapest is creating a sculpture park for more than 45 works depicting Lenin, Marx and others
February 1992archive
“We buy figureheads, busts, portraits, banners—at high prices”
Moscow author amasses a collection of depictions of Lenin and Stalin before they are destroyed
March 1991archive
How Saddam Hussein's ideology was enshrined in his art commissions
New book "The Monument" explains why greater attention to the Iraqi director’s iconography might have illuminated Western politicians as to his ambitions
December 1990archive
Penalties for defacing monuments to Communism are being debated in the Soviet parliament
Are these acts a citizens’ protest against the situation in which the country now finds itself, or are they merely vandalism?