title: Life Between Two Panels: Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
abstract: Beneath the faade of total conformity in the Soviet Union, a dynamic underground community of artists and intellectuals worked in forced isolation.Rejecting the mandates of state-sanctioned Socialist Realist art, these dissident artists pursued diverse creative directions in their private practice.When they attempted to display their work publicly in 1974, the carefully crafted faade of Soviet society cracked, and the West became aware of a politically subversive undercurrent in Soviet cultural 
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