How Stalin’s propaganda machine erased people from …
WEBDec 7, 2021 · This picture was taken in 1926 and portrays Stalin with party bosses Nikolai Antipov, Sergey Kirov, and Nikolai Shvernik (from left to right). One by one, all except Stalin disappeared from the picture.
From Blurring Imperfections to Falsifying Reality: How Stalin Made …
WEBJul 13, 2021 · In the wildly reproduced image taken in 1922, Stalin took photo editing to new heights in his portrait with Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR. The two appear friendly, intimating that Stalin is the heir apparent.
Fake Views: The Good And Bad Of Soviet Photoshopping
WEBJul 13, 2018 · 2 A heavily retouched image of Josef Stalin. Some of the Soviets’ image-doctoring was apparently to crisp-up blurry or low-quality images. 3 But occasionally, heavy-handed Soviet...
How Photos Became a Weapon in Stalin’s Great Purge
WEBApr 20, 2018 · Stalin used a large group of photo retouchers to cut his enemies out of supposedly documentary photographs. One such erasure was Nikola Yezhov, a secret police official who oversaw Stalin’s...
The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the …
WEBJul 15, 2018 · There is the iconic photograph of Stalin and the masses, in which the image of Stalin is blatantly pasted in, and the masses, less noticeably, are composed of several repeating fragments of crowd.
Fake Views: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Soviet Photoshopping
WEBJul 31, 2018 · Some of the Soviets’ image-doctoring was apparently to crisp-up blurry or low-quality images. But occasionally, heavy-handed Soviet “airbrushers” literally blur the lines between painting and...
The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of images Stalin's …
WEBThe Commissar Vanishes, the late David King’s visual history of the falsification of images as a means of propaganda in the Soviet Union, explores how Stalin manipulated photography to erase all memory of his victims.
The Art of Deception: Photo Manipulation in Stalin's Soviet ...
WEBIn 1922, a pivotal moment in this propaganda war occurred when a photograph of Stalin and Lenin sitting side-by-side appeared in every newspaper across the Soviet Union. But everything wasn't as it seemed. The photograph was a fake.
From Blurring Imperfections to Falsifying Reality — How Stalin …
WEBThe Soviet Union’s brutal purges of its citizens and political enemies took a huge toll on the country’s history and culture. In the late 1930s, Joseph Stalin began instituting a wide-ranging policy of “de-kulakisation” to root out the “rootless kulaks” in the country.
STALIN’S PHOTOSHOP - Washington Examiner
WEBDec 22, 1997 · After Stalin’s accession, however, actual photos of scenes of the Bolshevik revolution had to be doctored to transform that gray blur into the mythic superhero of Bolshevik history.
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