September 20, 2016

“Healthy Body, Healthy Mind”: the visual propaganda of personal care during the Cultural Revolution in the Stalinist State

I. A Need for a Brand New World This picture of “Comrade Lenin Sweeps the World Clean of Filth” is  a perfect illustration of Soviets’ axiological orientations: they felt a moral duty to get rid of the “rotten bourgeoisie” in order to create a “brand new world” whose main values are fraternity and egality. The […]

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