Das kommunistische Postskriptum

Boris Groys

Suhrkamp - Berlin

2005

The total art of Stalinism

Boris Groys

Princeton University Press - PRINCETON

1992

In the wake of the collapse of communism, this study examines the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. It interprets totalitarian art and literature, and questions the view that social realism was supposedly "art for the masses".