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The Commissar Vanishes (Hardcover)
by David King (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Books; 1 edition (Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0805052941
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805052947
  • Product Dimensions: 30 x 25.7 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 732,564 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Lost Generation, 3 Sep 1998
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There is a secret inside this book. Inside is a collage showing about 200 people. These people were instrumental in getting Russia's October Revolution off the ground. Stalin is not one of these people. Therefore, to maintain the myth that Stalin and Lenin were the "Two Leaders" of the Revolution, Stalin had to kill off three quarters of the people on the collage because they "knew too much." And the great purges are what the rest of the book is about.

Stalin, more than anyone else in history, has altered the past to serve the present. His censors have visibly altered old photographs in order to remove the latest denounced "traitor to the working class" (or whatever) from old group photographs. With the old Soviet archives now open to the public and ex-Soviet citizens now free to view the unaltered archives in the West, we can see today how extensive this process was.

Trotsky, his chief opponent, was systematically removed from thousands of photographs -- those where he stood next to Lenin. With Trotsky gone, the 'Trotskyists' (however Commrade Stalin defined them) were next. The group photos had to be cropped in order to cover up the dwindling number of Revolutionary heroes. The comparison between the 'before' and 'after' pictures is chilling reminder of the immense suffering that Stalin caused to people who were as dedicated to the same ideals as he was -- but not as ruthless.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Study of History & Photography, 23 April 1998
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As a serious photographer I purchased this book because of an interest in photographic manipulation. After reading a few pages, however, I was caught up in the history of the Russian revolution, and Stalin's attempt to manipulate that history. The book is so interesting that I wasn't the least disappointed that the techniques used in altering the pictures weren't discussed. Suffice it to say in that regard that Stalin's photographic retouchers were quite primitive.
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