Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

This guide to Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow opens with a nineteen thirty-seven accusation: a factory director claimed sculptor Vera Mukhina had hidden the face of Stalin's exiled rival Leon Trotsky in the folds of the steel. It follows Mukhina's crew racing to finish the piece for the Paris World's Fair, and the tense visits from defense commissar Kliment Voroshilov and Stalin himself before the sculpture could travel. In Paris it stood facing the Nazi German pavilion directly across a boulevard. Look closely at the folds of steel behind her legs, where the disputed face was said to be hidden.