Focus on Worker and Kolkhoz Woman and analyze the History.
The sculpture was originally created to crown the Soviet pavilion of the 1937 World's Fair.  The organisers had placed the Soviet and German pavilions facing each other across the main pedestrian boulevard at the Trocadéro on the north bank of the Seine.Mukhina was inspired by her study of the classical Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the Winged Victory of Samothrace and La Marseillaise, François Rude's sculptural group for the Arc de Triomphe, to bring a monumental composition of socialist realist confidence to the heart of Paris. The symbolism of the two figures striding from West to East, as determined by the layout of the pavilion, was also not lost on the spectators.Mukhina said that her sculpture was intended "to continue the idea inherent in the building, and this sculpture was to be an inseparable part of the whole structure", but after the fair, the Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa was relocated to Moscow where it was placed just outside the All-Russia Exhibition Centre.
In 1941, the sculpture earned Mukhina one of the initial batch of Stalin Prizes.The sculpture was removed for restoration in autumn of 2003 during the city's Expo 2010 bid.The plan during this process was that the sculpture could be back at their place in 2005, who what not happening due two factors: one was that the city lost the bidding process to Shanghai, and a many financial problems and re-installation was delayed.
At the end of 2009 the monument returned to its place at VDNKh after 6 years of restorations. The revealing of the restored monument was held on the evening of December 4, 2009, accompanied by fireworks and a light show. The restored statue uses a new pavilion as pedestal, increasing its total height from 34.5 metres (the old pedestal was 10 metres tall) to 60 metres (the new pavilion is 34.5 metres tall plus the 24.5 metres of the statue itself).
Stalin Prize Shanghai Moscow 1937 World's Fair La Marseillaise François Rude Seine VDNKh All-Russia Exhibition Centre Trocadéro Arc de Triomphe Paris Expo 2010 Winged Victory of Samothrace Kolkhoz Harmodius and Aristogeiton