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Title: The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia by David King ISBN: 0-8050-5294-1 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Gone and Forgotten
Comment: There is a secret inside this book. Inside is a collage showing about 200 people. These people were instrumental in getting Russia's October Revolution off the ground. Stalin is not one of these people. Therefore, to maintain the myth that Stalin and Lenin were the "Two Leaders" of the Revolution, Stalin had to kill off three quarters of the people on the collage because they "knew too much." And the great purges are what the rest of the book is about.
Stalin, more than anyone else in history, has altered the past to serve the present. His censors have visibly altered old photographs in order to remove the latest denounced "traitor to the working class" (or whatever) from old group photographs. With the old Soviet archives now open to the public and ex-Soviet citizens now free to view the unaltered archives in the West, we can see today how extensive this process was.
Trotsky, his chief opponent, was systematically removed from thousands of photographs -- those where he stood next to Lenin. With Trotsky gone, the 'Trotskyists' (however Commrade Stalin defined them) were next. The group photos had to be cropped in order to cover up the dwindling number of Revolutionary heroes. The comparison between the 'before' and 'after' pictures is chilling reminder of the immense suffering that Stalin caused to people who were as dedicated to the same ideals as he was -- but not as ruthless.
Rating: 5
Summary: A rare gem
Comment: A true gem of a book, dealing with a subject that is much overlooked. As the inspiration for Orwell's 1984 revising history, it is a chilling look at early Soviet attempts to rewrite history by erasing people from photos. Watching a photo of 5 men dwindle down to a picture of one as the others are disgraced, imprisoned, killed and then erased is just mindblowing!
Whether you are a fan of Soviet history (i'm not) or not, the cold war touched us all and this book documents it in the entirety
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous
Comment: A terrific historical document. Graphically captures the paranoia and retroactive history making that was Stalinism.
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Title: The Bolshevik Poster by Stephen White ISBN: 0300048696 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 27) by Victoria E. Bonnell ISBN: 0520221532 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Beria by Amy Knight ISBN: 0691010935 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 11 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick ISBN: 0195050010 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Kolyma Tales (Combined Two-Volume Edition) by Varlam Shalamov, John Glad ISBN: 0140186956 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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