These revelatory black-and-white photographs, testimonies produced within the past decade by 18 resident Soviet artists, represent a dramatic departure from the propaganda images familiar to Westerners, in which "everyone is happy and laughing and with great optimism participates in the work of construction." Disclosed is a world not often seen by outsiders: Soviet citizens share a meal in a cemetery; country women walk barefoot to spare their shoes; Lithuanian markets teem with pigs, poultry and cattle; a woman stands apart as nomad men feast in a tent; a circus acrobat gracefully twists into a bizarre shape. -- amazon.com
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