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Socialist visual cultures went far beyond political iconography: beyond the hammer and sickle, red banners or stylized portraits of Lenin, they could create normality and have an integrative effect, create identity, but also be subversive. Images emotionally bound the population to the system. The anthology deals with various popular media from late socialism: picture postcards, packaging, shop window decorations and other everyday image forms. The contributions describe areas of tension between the political program of a unified socialist hemisphere and the visual breaks in cultural and social practice. A glossary explains key aesthetic concepts.

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Ada Raev ist Professorin fA1/4r Kunstgeschichte an der UniversitAt Bamberg. Dr. Marina Dmitrieva Geb. 1953 in Moskau. Studium der Kunstgeschichte und Geschichte an der Moskauer Lomonossov-UniversitAt. Promotion 1984 mit einer Dissertation zum Thema A Antike Motive in der deutschen RenaissancegrafikA . Bis 1992 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut fA1/4r Kunstgeschichte, Moskau. 1992 Mitarbeit an der Forschungsstelle Osteuropas an der UniversitAt Bremen Seit 1996 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Geisteswissenschaftlichen Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas in Leipzig. Seit 1991 LehrauftrAge an den UniversitAten Basel, Freiburg a, Breisgau, Bremen, Hamburg, Leipzig. Arbeitsgebiete: - Renaissancekunst im Mittel- und Osteuropa - Avantgarde in Russland und Ostmitteleuropa - JA1/4dische Kunst und Kultur der Moderne Tanja Zimmermann (Junior Professor; PhD in art history and Slavic studies) teaches East-European literature and art history at the University of Constance (Germany). Her research interests include literature, art and the media in Russia, South-Eastern Europe and Poland in the 19th and 20th century.

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