Piggy foxy and the sword of revolution [electronic resource] : Bolshevik self-portraits / edited by Alexander Vatlin and Larisa Malashenko ; translated by Vadim A. Staklo ; foreword by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Annals of CommunismPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 205 p.) : ill. (some col.)ISBN:

9780300137996 (electronic bk.)
0300137990 (electronic bk.)
128173540X
9781281735409

Other title:

Bolshevik self-portraits

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Piggy foxy and the sword of revolution.DDC classification:

947.08402/07 22

LOC classification:

DK268.4 .P54 2006eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Gallery of leaders. V.I. Lenin ; I.V. Stalin ; L.B. Kamenev ; L.D. Trotsky ; G. Ye. Zinoviev ; N.I. Bukharin ; M.I. Kalinin ; V.M. Molotov ; A.I. Rykov ; Ya. E. Rudzutak ; M.P. Tomsky ; F.E. Dzerzhinsky ; A.A. Andreyev ; K. Ye. Voroshilov ; L.M. Kaganovich ; S.M. Kirov ; A.I. Mikoyan ; G.K. Ordzhonikidze ; V.V. Kuibyshev ; V. Ya. Chubar ; S.V. Kosior ; S.I. Syrtsov ; A.S. Bubnov ; G.M. Krzhizhanovsky ; N.K. Krupskaia ; M.M. Litvinov ; G.L. Piatakov ; K.B. Radek ; I.T. Smilga ; A.A. Solts ; M.F. Shkiriatov ; Ye. M. Yaroslavsky ; L. Ye. Mariasin ; S.L. Kruglikov ; N.G. Tumanov ; N.P. Briukhanov ; G.I. Lomov (Oppokov) ; A.I. Gurevich ; N. Osinsky (V.V. Obolensky) ; V.V. Shmidt ; R.P. Eideman ; M.M. Lashevich ; V.A. Antonov-Ovseyenko ; S.S. Kamenev ; I.P. Tovstukha ; V.N. Vasilievsky ; A.M. Nazaretian ; Ya. A. Yakovlev ; D. Bedny ; N.D. Kondratiev ; D.B. Riazanov ; O. Yu. Schmidt -- Comrades and problems. Deviations and oppositions ; Supplementary agendas ; Economic conflicts and rapid industrialization ; The congress of the victors and the plenum of the condemned.

Summary: Sketching on notebook pages, official letterheads, or the margins of various draft documents, prominent Soviet leaders in the 1920s and 1930s amused themselves and their fellows with drawings of one another. This book presents a selection of nearly 200 of these informal sketches, only recently uncovered in secret Soviet files. Funny, original, spontaneous, sometimes vicious or grotesque, the drawings and their accompanying notes are exceptionally revealing of the relationships and mindsets of the Bolshevik bosses at the time of Stalin's rise to power. The album's editors select characteristic drawings by such prominent leaders as Nikolai Bukharin, who depicts himself as 'piggy foxy', Valery Mezhlauk, and Stalin himself, whose recognizable blue pencil remarks appear on some of the works. A number of drawings of unknown authorship are also included. The editors identify the political issues, specific events, or discussions that inspired the drawings, and they provide biographical information about the people who drew and were drawn. The book opens a unique window on Stalin's inner circle, allowing us special access to the powerful men who, despite living in a humourless epoch, developed a special humour of their own.

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Includes index.

Translated from the Russian.

Sketching on notebook pages, official letterheads, or the margins of various draft documents, prominent Soviet leaders in the 1920s and 1930s amused themselves and their fellows with drawings of one another. This book presents a selection of nearly 200 of these informal sketches, only recently uncovered in secret Soviet files. Funny, original, spontaneous, sometimes vicious or grotesque, the drawings and their accompanying notes are exceptionally revealing of the relationships and mindsets of the Bolshevik bosses at the time of Stalin's rise to power. The album's editors select characteristic drawings by such prominent leaders as Nikolai Bukharin, who depicts himself as 'piggy foxy', Valery Mezhlauk, and Stalin himself, whose recognizable blue pencil remarks appear on some of the works. A number of drawings of unknown authorship are also included. The editors identify the political issues, specific events, or discussions that inspired the drawings, and they provide biographical information about the people who drew and were drawn. The book opens a unique window on Stalin's inner circle, allowing us special access to the powerful men who, despite living in a humourless epoch, developed a special humour of their own.

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Piggy foxy and the sword of revolution [electronic resource] : Bolshevik self-portraits / edited by Alexander Vatlin and Larisa Malashenko ; translated by Vadim A. Staklo ; foreword by Simon Sebag Montefiore.