"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 30 years. author and photohistorian David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored photos from the Soviet era, the best of which are featured here.
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"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 30 years. author and photohistorian David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored photos from the Soviet era, the best of which are featured here.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. A large clean and unmarked orange-boards hardback with an unclipped dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. This copy has an "opened-only-a-few-times" look & feel with no crushes to the boards' corners. Heavily-illustrated with black-and-white Stalin-era photos, several in color. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.
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Very good(+) in near fine jacket. Illustrated abundantly in color and in black and white. 191 pages. Square 4to, red cloth, d.w. New York: Henry Holt, (1997). First Edition. Page edges lightly spotted. Very good(+) in a near fine dust wrapper. Preface by Stephen F. Cohen. Photographs from the David King Collection.
