Russia in the era of revolutions and civil war. 1917–1922
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Russia in the era of revolutions and civil war. 1917–1922
99.99 €
63.99 €
The presented edition by means of documentary photography and newsreel clearly and comprehensively demonstrates to the modern reader the images of the Russian state and society, formed in the years of the most severe trials of the February and October revolutions of 1917 and the bloody events of the Civil War of 1918-1922 that followed. Analysis of the literature of the last 25 years devoted to the subject of the Russian Civil War has revealed a significant lack of publications that would reflect the events of that time in visual images and newsreels. The authors of this publication have set themselves the goal of filling this gap. The authors- compilers fully realized the task of impartially showing the actors of the civil conflict, who were on different sides of the front. By means of photographs, photo reports and newsreel footage they managed to reveal the diversity of images of the participants of the events of 1917-1922: Reds, Whites, anarchists, interventionists and nationalists of all stripes. The most difficult thing was to overcome the usual tradition of presenting the material based on the views of only one side of the conflict - the Whites or the Reds; but in the end they managed to cope with this tendency as well. Besides, the novelty of the presented documentary material was added by the widest possible involvement of photo-image collections of state archives and private collections of the countries participating in the intervention in Russia, including not only European countries, but also the United States. On the pages of the publication for the first time more than 500 photos and newsreel footage from Russia, Europe and the USA are collected together. The published photo and newsreel shots have a double value, combining both the quality of photographic artworks and the properties of a documentary source, presenting a photographically accurate image of "Russia washed in blood". Some photographic materials were not familiar to the domestic audience until recently and were previously published only in the little-known white-emigrant or foreign press in the 1920s-1930s. All this allows us to see the era of 1917-1922 in a new way, differently than it was accepted in Soviet historiography, when the national tragedy was presented in a heroic-romantic halo, and the catastrophic consequences were left behind the scenes.
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