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Retouching Stalin's Moustache

Author : Thomas P. Muhl

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 44,32 MB

Release : 2011-04-15

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1456894811

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Retouching Stalin’s Moustache is the story of a talented artist, survivor of twentieth century Europe under both fascism and communism, who is coping with survival in America in a life complicated by further twists and turns of fate. The narrative moves from flashback to foreground, describing his early marriage and escape from the Old World. It follows up with more recent adventures, the dissolution of his marriage and newly created layers of memory. This book shows how a “permanently displaced person” must struggle to seek out means of adjusting to the daylight world of today.



The Stalin Cult

Author : Jan Plamper

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 13,97 MB

Release : 2012-01-17

Category : History

ISBN : 0300169523

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Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet population and inspired leftist activists around the world. In the first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking artists, party patrons, state functionaries, and ultimately Stalin himself in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked Georgian into the embodiment of global communism. Departing from interpretations of the Stalin cult as an outgrowth of Russian mysticism or Stalin's psychopathology, Plamper establishes the cult's context within a broader international history of modern personality cults constructed around Napoleon III, Mussolini, Hitler, and Mao. Drawing upon evidence from previously inaccessible Russian archives, Plamper's lavishly illustrated and accessibly written study will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century history, visual studies, the politics of representation, dictator biography, socialist realism, and real socialism.



Graphis Design Annual

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Page : 286 pages

File Size : 33,11 MB

Release : 1987

Category : Commercial art

ISBN :

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Daughter of the Revolution

Author : Peter Hargitai

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 31,57 MB

Release : 2006-09-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0595857949

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October 23, 1956 For 12 days, countless Hungarian teenagers fought in the bloody Hungarian Revolution against Communist tyranny and overwhelming Soviet armor. They set up tank barricades, tossed Molotov cocktails, and with their confiscated Russian submachine guns made a stand on the streets of Budapest, hoping to hold out until help arrived from the West. But there was no help. Nobody came to their aid. This is the story of one such brave freedom fighter-a 14 year-old girl. "For 12 days in 1956, the Hungarian people caught a fleeting glimpse of their independence. Armed with little more than a love of liberty, the impatient patriots of Hungary rose up against the mighty Soviet empire. They stormed the jails and they freed political prisoners For 12 days, there was hope, but then came the response and it was terrible and ferocious. Soviet troops and tanks rumbled into Hungary, killing tens of thousands of people and condemning thousands of others to Siberian gulags." -Condoleezza Rice U.S. Secretary of State



In the Casa Azul

Author : Meaghan Delahunt

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 22,79 MB

Release : 2003-05-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780312291075

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This breathtaking first novel explores Leon Trotsky and his wife's years of Mexican exile in the home of Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera. Mingled with the voices of Stalin's desolate young wife and that of Trotsky himself are the tales of the lesser known who have also created history--the Mexican artist who foretells Trotsky's death; a Bolshevik engineer surviving the chill of the Stalinist regime; the bodyguard who is unable to prevent the assassination. Together, the stories reveal the panorama of Russian history, revolution, and upheaval in the twentieth century.



Angels on the Head of a Pin

Author : Iouri Droujnikov

Publisher : Unesco

Page : 576 pages

File Size : 43,13 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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The novel is set in Moscow in the late 1960s, at a time when Khrushchev-era liberalization is being threatened by the return to personality cults and repression following the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia. Yuri Druzhnikov is the author of a number of works of fiction and non-fiction, including the Alexander Pushkin biography Prisoner of Russia. The satirical novel Angels on the Head of a Pin sold a quarter of a million copies in its first edition and has been named one of the ten best Russian novels of the twentieth century by the University of Warsaw and the best contemporary novel in translation by UNESCO.In 2001, Yuri Druzhnikov was put forward by Poland as a candidate for the Nobel Prize. Blacklisted! in his homeland for fifteen years, he emigrated to the United States in 1987 and now teaches at the University of California Davis.'Reputation, founded on serious and satirical writings, recommends him both as a talented writer and courageous humanist.' Bernard Malamud. 'A very important book, without which it is difficult to imagine contemporary literature, a book that has entered the canon of texts describing the epoch of totalitarianism.' Professor Lucjan Suchanek, Jagellonian University, Poland.



The Commissar Vanishes

Author : David King

Publisher : Holt Paperbacks

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 24,26 MB

Release : 1999-03-15

Category : History

ISBN : 9780805052954

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A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 The lavishly illustrated and often darkly hilarious retelling of Soviet history through the doctored photographs under Stalin. The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book Tatyana Tolstaya, in The New York Review of Books, called "an extraordinary, incomparable volume."



The Invisible Shining

Author : Bal zs Apor

Publisher : Central European University Press

Page : 418 pages

File Size : 46,59 MB

Release : 2018-02-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9633861926

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This book offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, M ty s R kosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. While his cult never approached the magnitude of that of Stalin, R kosi?s ambition to outshine the other ?best disciples? and become the best of the best was manifest in his diligence in promoting a Soviet-type following in Hungary. The main argument of Bal zs Apor is that the cult of personality is not just a curious aspect of communist dictatorship, it is an essential element of it. The monograph is primarily concerned with techniques and methods of cult construction, as well as the role various institutions played in the creation of mythical representations of political fi gures. Separate chapters present visual and non-visual methods of cult construction. The author engages with a wider international literature on Stalinist cults in an impressive manner. Apor uses the case of R kosi to explore how personality cults are created, how such cults are perceived, and how they are eventually unmade. The book addresses the success?generally questionable?of such projects, as well as their uncomfortable legacies.





The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

Author : William Shakespeare

Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand

Page : 127 pages

File Size : 38,13 MB

Release : 2024-04-01

Category : Poetry

ISBN :

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"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.