Synopsis
Images by the prominent Soviet photographer illustrate the fall of communism in the Soviet Union
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About the Author
Angela Von Laue, has been Theodore H. Von Laue's research assistant and editor since their marriage in 1976. She also teaches English as a Second Language. Theodore H. Von Laue was born in Germany in 1916 and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1944. He is Emeritus Professor of European History at Clark University and author of the best-selling book Why Lenin? Why Stalin? Why Gorbachev? His wife, Angela Von Laue, has been his research assistant and editor since their marriage in 1976. Dmitri Baltermants (1912-1900) was the preeminent photojournalist working in the Soviet Union from World War II through the Brezhnev era. His work, as a photographer and photoeditor for the popular news magazine Ogonyuk, helped shape the way that the Soviet people saw their world.
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Readers should not take this handsome volume for an extended photo-essay because of its large trim size. Instead, it is two books in one: a detailed history of the Soviet Union, by the Von Laues, and a collection of photos by Soviet photographer Dmitri Baltermants (1912-1990). Baltermants, who began his work in WWII, became an official Kremlin photographer and also a photo editor for the popular magazine Ogonyok. Though the extensive text tends to dominate the photos, some of Baltermants's war images have today become icons of the titanic struggle on the eastern front between Nazis and Soviets. Also of note here are closeups of various Soviet leaders, including several of Stalin. Theodore H. Von Laue is professor emeritus of European history at Clark University; Angela Von Laue is his research assistant and editor; Tatiana Baltermants is the photographer's daughter.
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