The party's over: Russia's glasnost art comes to London

Alexander Kosolapov, Molotov Cocktail (1989)
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl

Dmitry Vrubel, God! Help Me to Survive Amongst This Deathly Love (1991–2000)
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl

Sergey Borisov, Catwalk (1987)
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl

Eduard Gorokhovsky, Untitled (Stalin), 1987
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl

Sergey Borisov, Dialogue (1983)
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl

Igor Makarevich, USSR – Bastion of Peace (1989)
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl

Semyon Faibisovich, In the Line for Vodka II (1990)
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl

Sergey Bugaev, (Afrika) Proletarians of All Countries Unite! (1992)
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl

Sergey Borisov, Glasnost and Perestroika (1986)
Photograph: Courtesy Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl