Totalitarian culture: the encounter in Paris. (International Exhibition of the Arts and Science 1937)

From: National Review | Date: May 9, 1986| Author: Golomstock, Igor; Karetnikova, Inga | Copyright information

TOTALITARIAN CULTURE: THE ENCOUNTER IN PARIS

GRANTED, aside from the records of their deeds, the philosophical similarities between Nazism and Communism are not always easy to see. The skeptical, Enlightenment rhetoric of the Communists and the Romantic, neo-pagan rhetoric of the Nazis seem like irreconcilable opposites. But when the two great totalitarian ideologies are expressed visually--through architecture, sculpture, painting--their real similarities are strikingly ...

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