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Openness and Idealism: Soviet Posters 1985-1991 latvian literature This is an authoritativeThis publication looks back at the history of Soviet art from the USSRs final chapter: the colourful and radical posters of glasnost. Ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost (translating as openness or transparency) was a movement that allowed for artistic and open minded alternatives to the state endorsed Social Realism. Within this movement, posters became the primary vehicles for confronting the history of the USSR from the vantage of its