The Wayland Rudd Collection: Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture by Yevgeniy Fiks Stalin Drawing on media analysis and

Drawing on media analysis and interviews with ordinary citizens

One of those inhabitants was Liseby Elysé

which held collections of both specimens from nature and artefacts from various cultures

despite persecution

Analyzing a wide range of printed and visual sources

The Wayland Rudd Collection: Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture by Yevgeniy Fiks Stalin Drawing on media analysis and"The Wayland Rudd Collection provides an essential resource to scholars of race and decolonialism, particularly those interested in the minority experience in an ideological context other than American capitalism" Christianna Bonin, Russian Art Focus The Wayland Rudd Collection presents artist Yevgeniy Fikss archive of Soviet media images of Africans and African Americans from propaganda posters to postage stamps mainly related to African liberation