...the collection of Dvořák's writings was published with a foreword, 'Max Dvořák and the history of feudal art', by Ivan Mácza, and comments by Alexey Sidorov.10 This was not a conventional translation into Russian of 'The History of Art as the History of Ideas'. ...the collection was stripped of two lectures: on Dürer's Apocalypse and 'El Greco and Mannerism'. 'Dialectical Mannerism' and the 'Battle for Renaissance' (the 1940s - 1960s) In the post-war period up to Stalin's death (1946 - 1953) Soviet art history, as Anastasia Morozova aptly put it, was confined to the role of a weapon in the Cold War.15 Thus, aesthetic or theoretical issues were brought into the ideological context. Soviet science dwelled on dialectical Materialism (a Marxist adaptation of the Hegelian historical dynamics with emphasis on real-world conditions), which was proclaimed as the official methodology. ...scholarly discourse had to be structured as a triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis.16 Soviet Scholars focused on the first two elements identified with classical and anti-classical art gradually drifting towards the previously criticized binary oppositions of Wölfflin.