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A few text pages--English portion is at pages 7 and 8. Illustrations (one fold-outs, some in color--reported as + 149 Numbered Plates). Publication date derived from Internet research. This work is published in Russian, English, French, German, and Spanish. Major inscription on the fep--The inscription is in Russian and translates as "To Colonel Griffith in memory of meeting with Soviet Veterans of War in Moscow June 1, 1963 Moscow." The signatures are believed to be. Vasilevsky (Marshal, first head of the Committee). Sukhoi or Serov; Sergey Smirnov (WWII writer), and Aleksey Maresyev (Executive of Soviet Committee of Veterans WWII--he was a fighter Act and and his legs amputated). Between the end of mass demobilization in 1948 and the foundation of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans in 1956, former soldiers were integrated neither as a generation nor as a status group with formal privileges and their own organization (as would be the case in later years). What held them together was instead a shared sense of entitlement based on wartime sacrifice. During the first postwar decade, therefore, Soviet veterans are best understood as an "entitlement group." Only in the 1960s and 1970s was this entitlement group transformed into a status group that became one of the major pillars of the late Soviet order. This album contains examples of all the basic forms of photographic art, works by Soviet photographers of various generations, from the veterans who started taking pictures as long ago as the end of the last century to young photography only just setting out on their artistic careers. Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky (30 September [O.S. 10 September] 1895 5 December 1977) was a Soviet general who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, he served as the chief of the General Staff and deputy Minister of Defense, and later served as Minister of Defense from 1949 to 1953. Aleksey Petrovich Maresyev (20 May 1916 18 May 2001) was a Soviet and Russian military pilot who became a Soviet fighter ace during World War II despite becoming a double amputee. On 5 April 1942 his Yakovlev Yak-1 was shot down near Staraya Russa. Despite being badly injured, he managed to return to the Soviet-controlled territory. His injuries deteriorated so badly that both of his legs had to be amputated above the knee. Desperate to return to his fighter pilot service, he subjected himself to nearly a year of exercise to master the control of his prosthetic devices, and succeeded at that, returning to flying in June 1943. During a dog fight in August 1943, he shot down three German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters. In total, he completed over 80 combat sorties and shot down an estimated 7 German aircraft. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 24 August 1943. In 1944, he joined the Communist Party and in 1946 he retired from the military. In 1952, Maresyev graduated from the Higher Party School. In 1956, he obtained a Ph.D. in history and started working in the Soviet War Veterans Committee. Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov (1915 1976) was a Soviet writer, a historian, a radio- and TV-presenter, a public figure, a Lenin Prize winner (1965). Member of the RCP since 1946. Smirnov entered the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. In 1941 he went to the front. After the war he worked as an editor in Voenizdat. Sergey was the deputy editor-in-chief of Novy Mir (November 1953 October 1954), the editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta in 1959 1960. The Secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers (1975 1976). Smirnov was famous for his books about heroes of the Great Patriotic War. He did a lot to immortalize heroic deeds of unknown soldiers and to find soldiers missing in action. Signature is possibly of General Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov (August 13, 1905 July 1, 1990) was a prominent leader of Soviet security and intelligence agencies, head of the KGB between March 1954 and December 1.
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