To the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1917: The exhibition "Steering Revolutions" is presented in Moscow

The State Museum of the East (Moscow) presents the exhibition "Steering Revolutions" to the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1917.

The exhibition offers a glimpse of this most important period of world history through the prism of the art of the countries of the East. Soviet Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Mongolia, communist Vietnam and China - the Revolution of 1917 entailed not only a change in the state system in Russia, but also served as an impulse for transformation in many other countries. The artistic processes went into them with an eye to the experience of the Soviet Union.

The exposition includes more than 100 museum pieces of authorship of Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese and Mongolian artists. Their work - embroideries, clippings, posters, carpets, paintings and vases - served to glorify the new society. The Communist countries produced a huge amount of materials for public policy propaganda. The result of the active use of local art traditions was an incredible, unique blending of images and styles.

The items displayed at the exhibition are witnesses of hopes, tragedies and myths generated by the Russian revolution and borrowed by other states. Many works will be shown to the Russian public for the first time in recent decades.