After the Second World War, Bulgaria joined the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc. The new one-party socialist state was heavily influenced by the Soviet Union. The Bulgarian state encouraged playwrights, filmmakers and…
Like its neighbour to the north, Czechoslovakia was a Soviet satellite state. In Czechoslovakia, as in Poland, the cost of importing film posters from abroad was high. Local artists were…
Piety and Propaganda: The Soviet War on Religion In the wake of the 1918 Revolution, the new Communist government embarked on sweeping reforms that extended beyond politics and economics to…