roland elliott brown godless utopia soviet anti religious propaganda
Brown Roland Elliott Godless Utopia. Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda
The 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!'. Thus spoke the Soviet Union's first atheist propagandists as they declared war on 'the opium of the people' across the USSR. Soviet atheism is the great lost subject of the 20th century. Pope Pius XI led a 'crusade of prayer' against it. George Orwell satirised it in Animal Farm. The Nazis called it a Jewish plot. Franklin D Roosevelt pressured Stalin to abandon it. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn blamed it for Russia's catastrophes. Ronald Reagan put it at the core of his 'Evil Empire' speech. And yet, because the Soviet Union promoted atheism almost entirely for domestic consumption, decades' worth of arcane and astonishing antireligious imagery remains unknown in the West. Drawing on the early Soviet atheist magazines Godless and Godless at the Machine, and post-war posters by Communist Party publishers, Roland Elliott Brown presents an unsettling tour of atheist ideology in the USSR. Here are uncanny, imaginative and downright blasphemous visions from the very guts of the Soviet atheist apparatus: sinister priests rub shoulders with cross-bearing colonial torturers, greedy mullahs, a cyclopean Jehovah, and a crypto-fascist Jesus; Russian cosmonauts mock God from space while vigilant border guards nab American Bible smugglers. Godless Utopia is the occult grimoire of a lost socialist anti-theology.
4306 Руб.
P-35046 Soviet Propaganda Posters part II
P-35046 Soviet Propaganda Posters part II
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P-35047 Soviet Propaganda Posters part III
P-35047 Soviet Propaganda Posters part III
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P-35048 Soviet Propaganda Posters part IV
P-35048 Soviet Propaganda Posters part IV
375 Руб.
P-35071 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II part II
P-35071 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II part II
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P-35023 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1945 part III
P-35023 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1945 part III
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P-35017 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1942 part IV
P-35017 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1942 part IV
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P-35018 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1942 part V
P-35018 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1942 part V
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P-35024 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1945 part IV
P-35024 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1945 part IV
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P-35021 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1944 part IV
P-35021 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1944 part IV
375 Руб.
P-35020 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1943 part IV
P-35020 Soviet Propaganda Posters WW II 1943 part IV
375 Руб.
Alcohol. Soviet Anti-Alcohol Poster
Soviet propaganda against the demon drink: the latest in Fuel’s Russian pop culture series From 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 campaign initiated in 1985. These posters attempted to sober up Soviet citizens by forcing them to confront the issues associated with excessive alcohol consumption. This government-led urgency allowed the poster designers to present the anti-alcohol message in the most graphic terms: they depicted drunks literally trapped inside the bottle or being strangled by “the green snake.” Their protagonists are paralytic freeloaders and shirkers who always neglect their families, drive under the influence, produce substandard work, are smashed when pregnant and present a constant danger to fellow citizens. A two-part essay by renowned cultural historian Alexei Plutser-Sarno attempts to explain, from a Russian perspective, the reasons behind this phenomenon.
5681 Руб.
Herwig Christopher, Hatherley Owen Soviet Metro Stations
Stunning photographs of Soviet Metro Stations from across the former states of the USSR and Russia itself, many of which have never previously been documented For us, said Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, `there was something supernatural about the Metro'. Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1980s, it is easy to see why. Rather than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these networks were used as a propaganda artwork - a fusion of sculpture, architecture and art, combining Byzantine, medieval, baroque and Constructivist ideas and infusing them with the notion that Communism would mean a `communal luxury' for all. Today these astonishing spaces remain the closest realisation of a Soviet utopia. Following his best-selling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition - photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chandelier opulence to brutal futuristic minimalist glory, Soviet Metro Stations documents this wealth of diverse architecture. Along the way Herwig captures individual elements that make up this singular Soviet experience: neon, concrete, escalators, signage, mosaics and relief sculptures all combine build an unforgettably vivid map of the Soviet Metro. The photographs are introduced by leading architecture, politics and culture author and journalist Owen Hatherley.
7394 Руб.
Arendt Hannah The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination.
2545 Руб.
Arendt H. The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendts chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination.
1015 Руб.