This album contains reproductions of a number of works of Soviet painting from Tetyakov Gallery. Created by artist from different republics and a different generations, they serve vividly to reflect the development od Soviet multinational art over the past fifty years. The emergence and development of Soviet art took place amidst a tense struggle between contradicting trends and schools. Many of these had come into being even in the decade prior to the Revolution and they were characterized by a lack of high social ideals. The works of the latter Peredvizhniki (member of the Sociaty of Travelling Art Exibitions) showed a marked decline in creative standards. They began to turn more and more to studies instead of ideolocally meaningful paintings with profound realistic content.