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Central Asia in Art: From Soviet Orientalism to the New Republics by Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen Laurie Essig money was resurrected as anIn the midst of the space race and nuclear age, Soviet Realist artists were producing figurative oil paintings. Why? How was art produced to control and co opt the peripheries of the Soviet Union, particularly Central Asia? Presenting the 'untold story' of Soviet Orientalism, Aliya Abykayeva Tiesenhausen re evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in the USSR