"An invaluable book that makes available a huge fund of visual material from Soviet Russia and provides a rich contextualization of these images. Much larger in scope than a study of political posters, "Iconography of Power" traces the remarkable evolution of Soviet culture."--Katerina Clark, author of "Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution" "In this wonderful book, Victoria Bonnell draws us into the dramatic world of Soviet political culture in the times of Lenin and Stalin. Using the powerful images encoded in a ...
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"An invaluable book that makes available a huge fund of visual material from Soviet Russia and provides a rich contextualization of these images. Much larger in scope than a study of political posters, "Iconography of Power" traces the remarkable evolution of Soviet culture."--Katerina Clark, author of "Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution" "In this wonderful book, Victoria Bonnell draws us into the dramatic world of Soviet political culture in the times of Lenin and Stalin. Using the powerful images encoded in a dazzling array of political posters, she enables us to experience Soviet values and sensibilities. "Iconography of Power" is vibrant, lucid, and elegant.--Nina Tumarkin, author of "Lenin Lives!" "A worthy contribution both to the study of Russia's visual arts in the Soviet era and to sociology and political thought in the Soviet Union down to the 1950s."--S. Frederick Starr, author of "Red and Hot"
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