Looks at the failed coup attempt and the other events that led to the breakdown of the totalitarian regime and the birth of a new optimism
James H. Billington Libri
1 giugno 1929 – 20 novembre 2018
James Hadley Billington è stato un distinto accademico e autore americano che ha insegnato storia a Harvard e Princeton. Ha servito come 13º Bibliotecario del Congresso, plasmando in modo significativo le istituzioni culturali americane durante il suo esteso mandato. Il suo lavoro accademico approfondì le narrazioni storiche e la sua eredità è consolidata dalla sua influente leadership nella sfera culturale.
Propaganda & Dreams is a revealing portrait of two countries, the United States and the Soviet Union of the 1930s. This thought-provoking volume includes more than 200 photographs, all, says author Leah Bendavid-Val, "generated by governments for causes that were shared by the photographers who took the pictures, the authorities who funded them, and the publishers who disseminated them." These photographs all offer impactive realism, but it is "mingled [with] romance...in varying ways and degrees."