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The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
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DAVID KING
The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
New York: Henry Holt, Metropolitan Books, 1997. 192 pp.; 4 color ills., 271 b/w. $35.00
A slim volume with little text and full of intriguing and somewhat perverse pictures, The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia is perhaps the most significant recent book published on the use of images in the Soviet era. Its central claim is an important one: the manipulated photograph stands as the cornerstone of Joseph Stalin's ideological project. And though the text does not elaborate this argument at any great length, the book provides …
