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James H. Billington

    1. červen 1929 – 20. listopad 2018

    James Hadley Billington byl předním americkým akademikem a autorem, který vyučoval historii na Harvardu a Princetonu. Byl 13. knihovníkem Kongresu a významně se zasloužil o rozvoj amerických kulturních institucí. Jeho práce se zaměřovala na historii a jeho odkaz spočívá v jeho rozsáhlém působení v čele klíčových kulturních organizací.

    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

      • 224 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení

      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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