Broken Empire
Broken Empire

Author: Gerd Ludwig

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Ten volatile years after the fall of the Soviet Union, an award-winning photographer teams ups with a world-renowned journalist to complete an unforgettable visual and textural record of Russia's ambivalent rebirth. 120 color photos.

Red Star Over Russia
Red Star Over Russia

Author: Natalia Sidlina

Publisher: Tate

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781849765237

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In exploring the intersection of art, politics and society, few collections in the world can compare with the David King collection. David King (1943?2016) was not only a passionate collector, but also an artist, designer and historian. Over a lifetime he amassed one of the world?s largest collections of Soviet political art and photographs. Every step of the Soviet journey is documented in visual media, photomontage, photographs, paintings, handwritten notes, books (signed with annotations and marginalia), enclosures and ephemera. The collection is also unique in examples of image manipulation techniques, erasures and deletions, and in the survival, despite the purges, of extremely rare books and manuscripts by the early revolutionaries who died in the?Show Trials? of 1936?38.00Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (08.11.2017 - 18.02.2018).

Cold War Britain
Cold War Britain

Author: M. Hopkins

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-12-13

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 140391978X

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Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process. It argues that in many ways Britain and the United States perceived and handled the threat posed by the Communist bloc in similar terms: nevertheless, Britain's continuing global commitments, post-war economic problems and somestic considerations obliged her on occasion to tackle the threat rather differently.

A People Passing Rude
A People Passing Rude

Author: Anthony Cross

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 190925410X

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"The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia's influence on British culture. They move from the early nineteenth century -- when Byron sent his hero Don Juan to meet Catherine the Great, and an English critic sought to come to terms with the challenge of Pushkin -- to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on Britain's engagement with Soviet film."--Back cover.

Imagine Moscow
Imagine Moscow

Author: Ezster Steierhoffer

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-26

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781872005348

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Idealistic visions of the Soviet capital that were never realised. Published at the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution portrays Moscow as it was envisioned by a bold generation of architects in the 1920s and early 1930s. Through evocative imagery and a wealth of rarely seen material, this book provides a window into an idealistic fantasy of the Soviet capital that was never realised and has since been largely forgotten. Focusing on six unbuilt architectural landmarks, Imagine Moscow explores how these projects reflected changes in everyday life and society following the revolution, during one of the most fascinating periods of the twentieth century. Large-scale architectural plans, models and drawings are placed alongside propaganda posters, textiles and porcelain, contextualising the transformation of a city reborn as the new capital of the USSR and the international centre of socialism.