pwt 23-2016 contents

WEEKLY TRANSMISSION N°23
PROPAGANDA PORTRAIT GALLERY:
THURSDAY 9TH JUNE 2016
JOSEPH STALIN, «FATHER OF NATIONS»
n°8 and n°12
PWT 23-2016 CONTENTS :
A Certain Cult of Personnality, Propaganda Black and White Portraits
Propaganda Color Portraits
Epilog: Svetlana
1-5
6-8
12
n°10, detail
The e-bulletin presents articles as well as selections of books, albums, photographs
and ancient documents as they have been handed down to the actual owners
by their creators and by amateurs from past generations.
The physical descriptions, attributions, origins, and printing dates
of the books and photographs have been carefully ascertained by collations
and through close analysis of comparable works.
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N°23 : Stalin
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n°9, verso
«A cult of personality developed in the Soviet Union around both Stalin and Lenin. Many
personality cults in history have been frequently measured and compared to his... He accepted
grandiloquent titles (e.g., "Coryphaeus of Science," "Father of Nations," "Brilliant Genius of
Humanity," "Great Architect of Communism," "Gardener of Human Happiness," and others),
and helped rewrite Soviet history to provide himself a more significant role in the revolution
of 1917... Although statues of Stalin depict him at a height and build approximating the very
tall 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 World
War II, with Stalin's name included in the new Soviet national anthem. Stalin became the
focus of literature, poetry, music, paintings and film that exhibited fawning devotion. The
degree to which Stalin himself relished the cult surrounding him is debatable. The Finnish
communist Arvo Tuominen records a sarcastic toast proposed by Stalin at a New Year's Party
in 1935 in which he said — "Comrades! I want to propose a toast to our Patriarch, life and
sun, liberator of nations, architect of socialism [he rattled off all the appellations applied to
him in those days] – Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, and I hope this is the first and last speech
made to that genius this evening." (Wikipedia)
n°8, mount, detail
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SOYOUZ-FOTO, Stalin with Gorki, Stalin with Workers, with Soldiers, Stalin’s Propaganda
Portraits, Moscow, 1931-1932. Three (3) vintage silver printed post-cards, 95x145 mm,
captions, recto.
(3) 120 euros
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SOYUZ-FOTO, Rot Front ! Stalin’s Portrait in a Soviet School, November 1933. Vintage silver
print, 235x172 mm, printed caption (in French) verso : «Comment les enfants soviétiques
étudient les problèmes politiques».
300 euros
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SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHER, Stalin’s profile, 1930s. Vintage silver print, 195x135 mm, on
original mount.
600 euros
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SOVIET PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin with six-years old daughter Svetlana, Moscow, 1932 or
1933. 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 only
occasionally 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 peritonitis
resulting from a burst appendix. While there were various other theories as to the cause of
her death (murder on the orders of Stalin, or that she was killed by Stalin himself), it appears
now Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide and modern historians have choosen this suicide
as a date of the beginnng of Red Terror, Stalin starting a long suite of death and murders with
Svetlana uncles.
200 euros
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SOVIET PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Speech in Red Square for the 24th Anniversary of
October Revolution, 1941. Exhibition silver print from a movie negative, 160x220 mm, movie
still printed in the mid-1950s, we note bad teeth.
400 euros
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SOVIET RETOUCHER AND PASTE-UP ARTIST, Marshall Stalin’s Official Portrait, Moscow,
State Military publishing company, 1949. Original maquette, fully retouched silver print
230x170 mm, captions and indications, ink and pencil, recto and verso.
800 euros
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SOVIET RETOUCHER AND PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Official Portrait, Moscow, State
Military publishing company, 1951. Original maquette, fully retouched silver print, 270x200
mm, captions and indications, ink and pencil, recto and verso.
500 euros
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SOVIET RETOUCHER AND PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Official Portrait, Moscow, State
Military publishing company, 1951. Original maquette, fully retouched silver print, 235x175
mm, captions and indications, ink and pencil, recto and verso.
500 euros
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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
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SOVIET PASTE-UP ARTIST, Stalin’s Attitude in the Conference, 1950s. Vintage silver print
from a movie negative,160x220 mm, captioned «Conference».
300 euros
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SOVIET PASTE-UP ARTIST, Two Stalin’s Attitudes in the Conference, 1950s. Two (2) vintage
silver prints from movie negatives; 160x220 mm, captioned «Conference».
(2) 600 euros
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SVETLANA UPON ARRIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES, 1967. Vintage silver print, 240x180
mm. On 6 March 1967, Alliluyeva approached the US embassy in New Delhi. After she stated
her desire to defect in writing, Ambassador Chester Bowles offered her political asylum and
a new life in the US «— At about nine o’clock p.m. in India, eleven in the morning Washington
time, I said, "I have a person here who states she's Stalin's daughter, and we believe she's
genuine; unless you instruct me to the contrary, I’m putting her on the one a.m. plane for
Rome where we can stop and think the thing through...». (Wikipedia)
200 euros
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