A HARD-left union chief with an interest in Soviet propaganda artwork made a £800,000 profit selling his home. Matt Wrack, 62, is set to become head of the ­NASUWT teaching union. He flogged the ...

Decades passed after its fall before art critics knew how to speak about socialist realist cinema – finding within it unique themes, intuitive choices and artful tropes. The genre came late to Poland.

I moved to St. Petersburg and lived there for ten years. Although my antennas were always up for signals of a socialist ...