New Perspectives On Russian and Soviet Artistic Culture: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990.

This illustrated volume represents the latest scholarship on the arts of Russia and the Soviet Union from the reign of Catherine the Great to the present-day ferment associated with perestroika and the creation of the Commonwealth of Indepedent States.

In 1990 scholars from all parts of the world gathered at Harrogate, England, for the IV World Congress of Soviet and East European Studies.

These essays not only provide discussions of art, architecture and patronage, they also illuminate the social, political and cultural context of Russian and Soviet art and place that artistic culture in a broader comparative perspective.