Looking for Lenin /
In the process of decommunization, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. This book documents the inglorious fate of these Soviet statues, following their often violent removal. Photographer Niels Ackermann and journalist Sébastien Gobert have scoured the country in search of the remains of th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
FUEL Design & Publishing,
2017.
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| Summary: | In the process of decommunization, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. This book documents the inglorious fate of these Soviet statues, following their often violent removal. Photographer Niels Ackermann and journalist Sébastien Gobert have scoured the country in search of the remains of these toppled figures. They are found in the most unlikely places. Lenin inhabits gardens, scrap yards and store rooms. He has fallen on hard times, cut into pieces, daubed with paint, turned into a Cossack or Darth Vader. Yet despite every attempt to reduce their status, the monuments retain a sinister quality, resisting all efforts to separate them from their history. |
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| Item Description: | Subtitle on page 19: Lost in decommunisation. |
| Physical Description: | 175 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 17 x 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780993191176 0993191177 |