The Commissar Vanishes:The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia by David King

The Commissar Vanishes:The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia

David King

192 pages 1997

1 edition

nonfiction art history politics challenging dark informative slow-paced
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The Commissar Vanishes offers a chilling look at how one man - Joseph Stalin - manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase memories off his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from...

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