pwt 23 2016 propaganda portraits : stalin

PWT 23-2016 CONTENTS :

A Certain Cult of Personnality, Propaganda Black and White Portraits 1-5Propaganda Color Portraits 6-8Epilog: Svetlana 12

WEEKLY TRANSMISSION N°23 THURSDAY 9TH JUNE 2016

PROPAGANDA PORTRAIT GALLERY: JOSEPH STALIN, «FATHER OF NATIONS»

n°8 and n°12

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N°23 : Stalin

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Weekly Transmission 23 III Thursday 9 June 2016 .

«A cult of personality developed in the Soviet Union around both Stalin and Lenin. Manypersonality cults in history have been frequently measured and compared to his... He acceptedgrandiloquent titles (e.g., "Coryphaeus of Science," "Father of Nations," "Brilliant Genius ofHumanity," "Great Architect of Communism," "Gardener of Human Happiness," and others),and helped rewrite Soviet history to provide himself a more significant role in the revolutionof 1917... Although statues of Stalin depict him at a height and build approximating the verytall Tsar Alexander III, sources suggest he was approximately 5 ft 4 in (163 cm).

Trotsky criticized the cult of personality built around Stalin. It reached new levels during WorldWar II, with Stalin's name included in the new Soviet national anthem. Stalin became thefocus of literature, poetry, music, paintings and film that exhibited fawning devotion. Thedegree to which Stalin himself relished the cult surrounding him is debatable. The Finnishcommunist Arvo Tuominen records a sarcastic toast proposed by Stalin at a New Year's Partyin 1935 in which he said — "Comrades! I want to propose a toast to our Patriarch, life andsun, liberator of nations, architect of socialism [he rattled off all the appellations applied tohim in those days] – Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, and I hope this is the first and last speechmade to that genius this evening." (Wikipedia)

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Weekly Transmission 23 1 Thursday 9 June 2016 .

SOYOUZ-FOTO, Stalin with Gorki, Stalin with Workers, with Soldiers, Stalin’s PropagandaPortraits, Moscow, 1931-1932. Three (3) vintage silver printed post-cards, 95x145 mm,captions, recto. (3) 120 euros


SOYUZ-FOTO, Rot Front ! Stalin’s Portrait in a Soviet School, November 1933. Vintage silverprint, 235x172 mm, printed caption (in French) verso : «Comment les enfants soviétiquesétudient les problèmes politiques». 300 euros


SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHER, Stalin’s profile, 1930s. Vintage silver print, 195x135 mm, onoriginal mount. 600 euros


SOVIET PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin with six-years old daughter Svetlana, Moscow, 1932 or1933. Vintage silver print, 190x285 mm, stamp and printing indications, verso.

Like most children of high-ranking Soviet officials, Svetlana was raised by a nanny and onlyoccasionally saw her parents. Her mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, died on 9 November 1932.The death of Stalin’s wife was an important soviet issue and officially ruled as peritonitisresulting from a burst appendix. While there were various other theories as to the cause ofher death (murder on the orders of Stalin, or that she was killed by Stalin himself), it appearsnow Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide and modern historians have choosen this suicideas a date of the beginnng of Red Terror, Stalin starting a long suite of death and murders withSvetlana uncles. 200 euros


SOVIET PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Speech in Red Square for the 24th Anniversary ofOctober Revolution, 1941. Exhibition silver print from a movie negative, 160x220 mm, moviestill printed in the mid-1950s, we note bad teeth. 400 euros


SOVIET RETOUCHER AND PASTE-UP ARTIST, Marshall Stalin’s Official Portrait, Moscow,State Military publishing company, 1949. Original maquette, fully retouched silver print230x170 mm, captions and indications, ink and pencil, recto and verso. 800 euros


SOVIET RETOUCHER AND PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Official Portrait, Moscow, StateMilitary publishing company, 1951. Original maquette, fully retouched silver print, 270x200mm, captions and indications, ink and pencil, recto and verso. 500 euros


SOVIET RETOUCHER AND PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Official Portrait, Moscow, StateMilitary publishing company, 1951. Original maquette, fully retouched silver print, 235x175mm, captions and indications, ink and pencil, recto and verso. 500 euros


SOVIET RETOUCHER AND PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Official Portrait with Lenine, Moscow,State Military publishing company, 1954. Silver print, 293x215 mm indications in pencil,on mount verso. 200 euros


SOVIET PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Attitude in the Conference, 1950s. Vintage silver printfrom a movie negative,160x220 mm, captioned «Conference». 300 euros


SOVIET PASTE-UP ARTIST, Two Stalin’s Attitudes in the Conference, 1950s. Two (2) vintagesilver prints from movie negatives; 160x220 mm, captioned «Conference». (2) 600 euros


SVETLANA UPON ARRIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES, 1967. Vintage silver print, 240x180mm. On 6 March 1967, Alliluyeva approached the US embassy in New Delhi. After she statedher desire to defect in writing, Ambassador Chester Bowles offered her political asylum anda new life in the US «— At about nine o’clock p.m. in India, eleven in the morning Washingtontime, I said, "I have a person here who states she's Stalin's daughter, and we believe she'sgenuine; unless you instruct me to the contrary, I’m putting her on the one a.m. plane forRome where we can stop and think the thing through...». (Wikipedia) 200 euros

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