Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin : Posters, Photographs and Graphics from the David King Collection"Red Star Over Russia is a visual history of the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the death of Stalin. Its urgent, cinema-verite style plunges the reader into the centre of the shattering events that brought hope, chaos, heroism and horror to the citizens of the world's first workers' state. Revolutionary upheaval turns into Civil War and famine; Stalin's Great Terror of the 1930s is followed by the brutal onslaught of Nazi invasion. The story ends with the intrigue surrounding the dictator's gruesome death in 1953." "More than 550 posters, photographs and graphics are reproduced to the highest quality, accompanied by insightful and informative texts. Many of these images are being reproduced here for the first time. Zooming in from the epic to the particular, the author rescues many lost heroes and villains from obscurity, through the work of the most brilliant Soviet designers, artists and photographers of the twentieth century." --Book Jacket. |
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Page 167
... propaganda journal in 1929 . Top right : A 1930 poster version of Cheremnyk's " apostles " caricature . Now a slovenly group of religious personages are seen grovelling for the cash . Opposite page : The destruction of the Saint Simonov ...
... propaganda journal in 1929 . Top right : A 1930 poster version of Cheremnyk's " apostles " caricature . Now a slovenly group of religious personages are seen grovelling for the cash . Opposite page : The destruction of the Saint Simonov ...
Page 222
... propaganda magazine , was published monthly in Moscow from January 1930 until May 1941. It was printed in four languages ( Russian , English , French and German ) and , for a short time , Spanish . Stars of Soviet design and photography ...
... propaganda magazine , was published monthly in Moscow from January 1930 until May 1941. It was printed in four languages ( Russian , English , French and German ) and , for a short time , Spanish . Stars of Soviet design and photography ...
Page 265
... propaganda purposes but no footage of the defendants at the three Show Trials has ever been found . The historical significance of these photographs , therefore , cannot be overstated . They are the last portraits of the victims of a ...
... propaganda purposes but no footage of the defendants at the three Show Trials has ever been found . The historical significance of these photographs , therefore , cannot be overstated . They are the last portraits of the victims of a ...
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Red Star over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the ... David King No preview available - 2016 |
Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from the ... David King No preview available - 2009 |