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Maker(s):Vassiliev, Oleg Vladimirovich
Culture:Soviet (1931-2013), active in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the United States
Title:The House with the Mezzanine, No. 19
Date Made:1991
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph on cream paper
Measurements:Sheet/Image: 29 3/4 in x 21 in; 75.6 cm x 53.3 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2010.157
Credit Line:Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
This print renders the consequences of the October Revolution: Lenin and dictatorship, war and riots, destruction and decay, feast and staged folklore, ideology and propaganda.

The soldier on the right side carries a rifle with a drum magazine, typically used by the Soviet army in the Second World War. With this figure, Vassiliev points to another disaster in twentieth-century Russian history. Propaganda, however, exploited Soviet participation in this war and the victory over Germany to demonstrate the power and glory of Communism.

BJ, 2013

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