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Lecturer — Elizaveta Likhacheva, art critic, director of the A.V. Shchusev State Museum of Architecture. In the 20th century, a tendency to evaluate this or that type of art through the prism of historical and political processes within which this art was born and developed became clearly evident. This approach gave rise to several theories of the development of the artistic process, one of which was the theory of totalitarian art — that is, art existing in totalitarian states, created for a specific purpose (most often propaganda) and having no value outside this state. In Elizaveta Likhacheva’s first lecture, we will try to understand the origins of the phenomenon of totalitarian architecture, trace the birth and change of architectural styles at the beginning of the 20th century, find out whether this architecture is a distinctive feature of a totalitarian regime and whether it has analogues in other political systems. The lecture is organized together with our friends from Pikemedialab