Saturs: Introduction ; Stalin supports modest forms of concrete sculpture: 1945-1953 ; Mass production of visual artwork at the factory Māksla ; Khrushchev starts paying for aesthetics but ends with thrift: 1954-1965 ; Communist rituals ; Brezhnev cedes to artists’ lobby: 1966-1982 ; Andropov seeks to stop wastefulness: 1983 and beyond ; The practical use of Lenin monuments.