Alternatives from the Past: Some Thoughts on Recent Writing on Art Produced under State Socialism

In the past couple of decades, “real existing socialism” (as the political system of the Soviet Union and its satellites was often known), has been transformed from the most polarizing aspect of global politics to a distant memory. In 2017, the hundredth anniversary of the Russian revolution provoked multiple reflections on the Russian Revolution and its legacy. Only two years later, in 2019, the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall gave rise to complementary, if more muted, d...