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Bezig met laden... A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union (origineel 1987; editie 1991)door Rick Smolan (Autor)
Informatie over het werkA Day in the Life of the Soviet Union door Rick Smolan (1987)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A beautiful photo book. Today it is probably outdated, but for me, at the time of reading it was great. I gazed through the book, looking at the pictures from a country I knew hardly anything about. The Soviet Union just started to open up and I was learning the language. I looked with great eyes. When I finally arrived to Moscow, two yeas later, it all wasn't that strange to me. I had 'seen' something already. For those who are intensely interested about the breakup of the Soviet Union, this is an interesting view of the country in the mid-1980s, just as things were starting to come to a head. I suppose that some Russians, and some Westerners as well, may now look back with nostalgia on the lost era that this book portrays. I wonder if the editors agree with the idea of going back to do a second volume in the same country. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Photographs and accompanying text depict everyday events in the Soviet Union. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)947.085History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1953-1991LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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This book is amongst the oldest in my collection, in terms of my ownership. Bought new, it's one of the few that moved with me every time over the the last 18 years, always treated with kid gloves and always given pride of place on my shelves. I took it off the shelf today to dust, and soon found myself curled up on my beanbag trying to juggle its large format without jostling Easter-cat as she tried to snooze on my lap.
The book is brilliant. The photos are brilliant. But what still chokes me up after almost 2 decades is what this book represented at the time; the unprecedented access, the struggle to create the book, the little vignettes the photographers told about their day and their experience. The cooperation between two societies taught through decades of propaganda to distrust each other.
The USSR is long gone now, but the book, I think, retains its relevancy, as a historical record of a country that no longer exists and an example of what's possible when politics are put aside. There are quite a few countries in this series and I am interested in acquiring A Day in the Life of America and A Day in the Life of Australia, but this is the one that's always going to retain pride of place on my shelves. ( )