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Soviet Russian Dissident Abstract Drawing USSR #1486598

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Soviet Russian Dissident Abstract Drawing USSR #1486598
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Signed J. Boli (Boshkrov) lower right, double matted and gilt-wood framed.
Depicts various abstract figures from which the most distinguishing feature is the powerful emotional expressions from each of the faces.

Boshkrov was imprisoned for this subversive work and managed to smuggle some of his works out of the Soviet Union at the height of Brezhnev oppressive crackdown.
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Background:
<BR>Leonid Brezhnev, b. Dec. 19, 1906, was the leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death on Nov. 10, 1982. A native of Russified eastern Ukraine, he rose steadily in party ranks during the 1930s and in 1939 was appointed propaganda secretary of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee. During World War II, he worked at the front as a political commissar attached to the armed forces, becoming a major general in 1944.
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In the postwar years Brezhnev worked under Nikita KHRUSHCHEV in Ukraine, later serving as Communist party chief in Moldavia (1950-53) and Kazakhstan (1954-56). He was elevated to the highest political body in the USSR (the Presidium, later called the Politburo) once Khrushchev's political opponents had been defeated (1957). For four years (1960-64) he served as the titular head of the USSR. After helping to oust Khrushchev in 1964, Brezhnev became first secretary (later general secretary) of the Communist party.

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Brezhnev first ruled the country in tandem with Prime Minister Aleksei KOSYGIN and later as the first among the "collective leadership" of the party. But ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:Circa 1975</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:10 x 12" (artwork)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Depth:26 x 30" (frame)</td></tr>


<tr><td>Title:Soviet Russian Dissident Abstract Drawing USSR</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Long Island, NY</td></tr>
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