Red Star over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin
David Kingis the author ofThe Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia,Ordinary Citizens: The Victims of Stalin, and numerous other books on Soviet subjects. He was art editor of theSunday Timesfrom 1965 to 1975, and is the owner of one of the world’s preeminent collections of Russian artifacts. He lives in London.