ABSTRACT
From the establishment of tight Soviet control over Central Asia in the 1940s, and toward the beginnings of the nuclear and space ages, orientalist paradigms have been redeployed within art and propaganda production in the USSR. Soviet orientalism remains the untold story manifested by discrepancies between the expanding bibliography on the art of the Soviet Union and its lack of integration within the established field of postcolonial studies and its methodologies. The urgency of such integration is fueled by increasing tensions within the former Soviet Bloc today.
