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James H. Billington

    1 juni 1929 – 20 november 2018

    James Hadley Billington was een vooraanstaand Amerikaans academicus en auteur die geschiedenis doceerde aan Harvard en Princeton. Hij diende als de 13e Library of Congress, waarbij hij Amerika's culturele instellingen aanzienlijk vormgaf tijdens zijn uitgebreide ambtsperiode. Zijn academische werk verdiepte zich in historische verhalen, en zijn nalatenschap is verankerd door zijn invloedrijke leiderschap op cultureel gebied.

    The Icon and the Axe. An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
    Propaganda and Dreams
    Russia transformed: Breakthrough to Hope
    • Propaganda and Dreams

      Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US

      • 224bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      Propaganda & Dreams is a revealing portrait of two countries, the United States and the Soviet Union of the 1930s. This thought-provoking volume includes more than 200 photographs, all, says author Leah Bendavid-Val, "generated by governments for causes that were shared by the photographers who took the pictures, the authorities who funded them, and the publishers who disseminated them." These photographs all offer impactive realism, but it is "mingled [with] romance...in varying ways and degrees."

      Propaganda and Dreams1999
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    • Looks at the failed coup attempt and the other events that led to the breakdown of the totalitarian regime and the birth of a new optimism

      Russia transformed: Breakthrough to Hope1992
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