High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! US economist Norton Townshend Dodge (b. 1927, Oklahoma City) amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union. A sovietologist who did pioneering work on the role of women under Joseph Stalin, Dodge smuggled into the West the works of dissident artists, painters and sculptors in the former Soviet Union. He continued to acquire art and meet clandestinely with artists, often at great personal risk, till the death of dissident artist Evgeny Rukhin and the coming of perestroika. He managed to smuggle nearly 10,000 works of art from the USSR to the United States during the height of the Cold War. Dodge's role in the preservation and patronage of art disallowed by the government led to his being called "the Lorenzo de' Medici of Russian art."[citation needed] Dodge's work is detailed at length in John McPhee's The Ransom of Russian Art (1994). Norton Dodge appears in an Andrei Zagdansky documentary “Vasya” (2002) about a Russian Nonconformist artist Vasily Sitnikov.

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