King David: The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art
Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: The Commissar Vanishes offers a chilling look at how Joseph Stalin manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase the memory of his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from group portraits, and crowd scenes were altered to depict even greater legions of the faithful. For example, a 1919 photograph showing a large crowd of Bolsheviks…