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Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture.
List of contents
Introduction: The USSR in Black and White 1. First Pictorial Impressions from Revolutionary Russia 2. James Abbe: The Original Photographic Cold Warrior 3. Margaret Bourke-White: Modernity and the Machine Age 4. John Heartfield: The Dialectics of Communist Photomontage 5. Robert Capa: Travels with Steinbeck 6. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Aesthetic Humanist 7. The Tense and Tender Imagery of William Klein 8. Inge Morath's Russian Intelligentsia 9. Brief Encounters with a Dying State Conclusion
About the author
Martin A. Miller is Professor in the Department of History at Duke University. His research interests are best described by his books:
Kropotkin (1976), a scholarly biography of the prominent Russian anarchist, Peter Kropotkin;
The Russian Revolutionary Exiles (1985), an analysis of the first generation of political exiles from Imperial Russia in Western Europe;
Freud and the Bolsheviks (1996), an exploration of the influence of Freud and the origins of psychoanalytic theory in Russia; and
The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: State, Society, and the Dynamics of Political Violence (2013), an analysis of the interaction of state and insurgent terrorism since the French Revolution in the Western world.
Summary
Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture.
