The relationship between the government and the artist can be seen through Lenin's Plan for Monumental Propaganda. In April of 1918, Lenin introduced his plan to implement Marxist ideals in conjunction with art. ... Avant-garde artist Igor Grabar recloection when meeting Lenin can best explain Lenin's Plan For Monumental Propaganda when he said "I've just come from Vladimir Ilich He intends to decorate Moscow's squares with statues and monuments to revolutionaries and the great fighters for socialism" (Lodder 19). Lenin's Plan, did in fact do more than just advocate...

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