Faces of a Nation
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
Contributors: Dmitri Baltermants (Photographer)
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781555912628
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Photojournalism; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; History - General History; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Pictorial works; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History; Russia (pre & post Soviet Union); Soviet Union
Description: In a career that spanned more than five decades, Dmitri Baltermants was the premier photographer in the Soviet Union. An official photographer to the Kremlin and the photoeditor of the popular news magazine Ogonyok, Baltermants visually documented the twentieth-century history of this great nation, recording all levels of Soviet society - from the working-class people to the highest political leaders - and showing as never before the Soviets as a truly "human" people.

With an introduction by Baltermants's daughter, Tatiana, and accompanying text by noted historians Theodore H.

Von Laue and Angela Von Laue, Faces of a Nation chronicles the critical events and personalities of the twentieth-century Soviet Union, bringing an intimate understanding to the history and the people of this great nation from the 1917 Revolution through World War II to the cold war and the fall of the "iron curtain." The book closes with Russia's move toward a more democratic government and the 1996 presidential elections.