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Damon Murray Alcohol ENSoviet propaganda against the demon drink: the latest in Fuel's Russian pop culture seriesFrom the acclaimed authors of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedias and Soviet Space Dogs comes Alcohol, a glorious and exhaustive collection of previously unpublished Soviet anti-alcohol posters. The book includes examples from the 1960s through to the 1980s, but focuses on posters produced during Mikhail Gorbachev's…
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Roland Elliott Brown, Stephen Sorrell Godless UtopiaThe first book to tell the visual story of the USSR’s war against religion of all denominations, from the 1917 revolution to its fall in 1991. ‘We’ve finished the earthly tsars and we’re coming for the heavenly ones!’...
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Damon Murray Russian Alphabet Colouring Book ENThis colouring book for all ages marks the first publication of the graphic works of Russian artist Amanita. His fantastical images form a unique world – they are like modern variations of illustrated manuscripts, packed full with elements of Soviet and post-Soviet cultures. The book also works as an introduction to the Russian alphabet. Every drawing depicts a word beginning with each letter from the Cyrillic…
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Danzig Baldaev Russian Criminal Tattoo ENThe photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than three thousand tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a close society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just…
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Arkady Bronnikov Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files ENRussian Criminal Tattoo Police Files Volume I features more than 180 photographs of Russian criminal tattoos and official police papers from the collection of Arkady Bronnikov, regarded as Russia’s foremost authority on criminal tattoo iconography. From the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, Bronnikov worked as a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, and part of his duties involved…
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Arkady Bronnikov Russian Criminal Tattoos and Playing CardsA unique insight into the design of hand-made Soviet prison playing cards and their link to the Russian criminal underworld.This book reveals the importance of playing cards in Russian criminal culture. The hand-made decks are beautiful works of art in th
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Danzig Baldaev Soviets ENSoviets features previously unpublished drawings from the archive of Danzig Baldaev, alongside classic propaganda photographs made by Sergei Vasiliev for the newspaper Vercherny Chelyabinsk. Baldaev's caricatures, dating from the 1950s to the period directly before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, harshly satirise the iron rule of the Communist Party, depicting its winners and losers, its systemic corruption…
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Donald Niebyl Spomenik Monument DatabaseSpomenik―the Serbo-Croat/Slovenian word for monument―refers to the memorials built in Tito's Republic of Yugoslavia from the 1960s to the 1980s, marking the horror of the occupation and the defeat of Axis forces during World War II. Hundreds w
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Jonny Trunk The Music Library ENThe first edition of The Music Library, published in 2005 and now out of print, brought together the designs of more than 325 record sleeves and relevant information about these rare and elusive albums. Quickly becoming known as the music library bible, The Music Library represented a valuable reference and also sparked a resurgence of interest in the subject over the last ten years, with many new library labels and…