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Radio 4,5 mins

Should we celebrate Russian Revolution art?

World at One

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On entering a new exhibition of Russian art at the Royal Academy in London you are greeted by stunning images of Soviet culture paintings, films and textiles - but also by portraits of Joseph Stalin. Why is it acceptable to display pictures of one dictator responsible for the deaths of millions of people but not another - Adolf Hitler? Military historian Sir Antony Beevor and Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones discuss the apparent pitfalls of exhibiting such works from the Russian Revolution. (Image: Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932. Credit: EPA)

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