Red Star over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin - Hardcover

King, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081098279X ISBN 13: 9780810982796

Publisher: Abrams, 2009

Synopsis

Red Star Over Russia is a breathtaking visual history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the death of Stalin, using a vast array of material including posters, photographs, paintings, magazine covers, advertisements, and ephemera to illustrate the dramatic birth and eventual decline of the Soviet Union. The book's urgent, cinema verite style plunges the reader into the shattering events that brought hope, chaos, heroism, and horror to the citizens of the world's first workers' state.The Russian Revolution produced some of the most important advances in the fields of art, photography, and graphic design in the 20th century. More than 550 of these widely influential materials are reproduced here to the highest quality, accompanied by author David King's accessible text. Zooming in from the epic to the particular, King rescues from obscurity many lost heroes and villains through the work of the most brilliant Soviet artists, many of them anonymous or long forgo

About this title

About the Author:

David King is the author of The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, Ordinary Citizens: The Victims of Stalin, and numerous other books on Soviet subjects. He was art editor of the Sunday Times from 1965 to 1975, and is the owner of one of the world’s preeminent collections of Russian artifacts. He lives in London.

Review:

'Powerful and immaculately produced' - Eye Magazine 'A magnificent work of stunning emotional power' - La Tribune 'A copy of this book should be in every public library, in every secondary school and in the hands of anyone who aspires to understand what has made Russia the state it is today... Buy one to keep and one to give away.' - Literary Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 081098279X
• ISBN 13: 9780810982796
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352