Author Archives: Stas Kulesh

From Admirals to Dictators: Prominent Soviets on the Cover of Time Magazine.

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Here’s our lit­tle some­thing for your Mon­day — a com­pi­la­tion of Time mag­a­zine cov­ers with a USSR focus, 1925 — 1991. The promi­nent Soviet and Russ­ian politi­cians, gov­ern­ment lead­ers, poets, com­posers, writ­ers, philoso­phers, sci­en­tists, astro­nauts, dis­si­dents, admi­rals and a few dic­ta­tors — the list of 110 remark­able cit­i­zens of the Soviet Union; those who made the West cringe — or laugh for that matter.

The faces are cer­tainly repet­i­tive, yet some cov­ers are a piece of art –this col­lage is worth a good look, so click on the flash bit below, zoom in and explore.

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A Glance at the Soviet Lifestyle, Captured by Marc Riboud.

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A singing class, Moscow, 1960s

This is our third post devoted to Marc Riboud, an out­stand­ing French pho­tog­ra­pher, who trav­eled exten­sively through­out the Soviet Union.  His images cap­tured an array of every­day life episodes from the lives of the Soviet peo­ple.  Here is the first lot — and here is the sec­ond one. As always, click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon to see the pho­tos in detail.

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Artistic Photography Shortly Before Perestroika

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Fall’s Gifts / Rainy Day by A. Suprun from the book “Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phy”, Kiev 1986

A small col­lec­tion of pho­tos from two pho­tog­ra­phy books pub­lished in the 1980s in the USSR. All pho­tographs from this set are by ama­teur photo artists from the republics of Ukraine (Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phy, 1986) and Moldovia (Mol­da­vian Artis­tic Pho­tog­ra­phy, 1985). Please remem­ber to click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon to see the full-size image.

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Picturing the Soviet Republics: Moldavia

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No doubt pho­tog­ra­phy was a pop­u­lar art in the USSR. Here and below are pic­tures taken by the peo­ple all over the Soviet state of Mol­davia. Today’s set based on the book called “Mol­da­vian Art of pho­tog­ra­phy”, Kishinev (recently renamed to Chisinau), 1985.

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Por­trait of a Worker by M. Potyrnike

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Best of Summer 2009

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Cold Clone War

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Shpa­gin Rifle VS Suomi Rifle (Finland)

Accord­ing to the Soviet pro­pa­ganda, every­thing which wasn’t invented by the ancient Chi­nese, was invented by the Soviet engi­neers in the USSR. Ah, they were said to invent the best weaponry, the best tanks and the best cars.

Exper­i­men­tal Soviet Home­made Photography

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Check and mate

These pho­tos are from a pri­vate col­lec­tion of a typ­i­cal Moscow fam­ily. They are dated back to 1936  –  1940 -  the years known as the  period of Stalin’s most cruel polit­i­cal repres­sions.  Sev­eral mil­lion peo­ple are said to be affected: sen­tenced, shot or sent off to labour camps.

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Picturing the Soviet Republics: Ukraine

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This time we are trav­el­ing to Kiev, the cap­i­tal of one of the most sig­nif­i­cant Soviet states — the Ukraine. Below you will find pic­tures from a book called “Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phers”, pub­lished in Kiev in 1986.

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An Encounter. (L. Sidorsky).

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