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Capturing the Soviet 1960s: Khrushchev and his time
Published: 16 February, 2010, 21:56
Edited: 17 February, 2010, 22:24
Nikita Khrushchev, Anastas Mikoyan and Yugoslavian Leader Iosip Broz Tito, 1956 (Photographer Dmitri Baltermants)
TAGS: Art, Show, Russia, History
The Moscow House of Photography unveils an exhibition classic Soviet photo-reportage devoted to Nikita Khrushchev and his remarkable time – the so-called “Thaw.”
This exhibition is not a historical facts analysis – it just revives the atmosphere of hopes and contradictions that followed the end of Stalin’s era. It offers a photo-chronicle of the life of the charismatic leader of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, plus photo-reports that captured the happy life ofthe proletariat and collective farmers.
"Thaw" has always warmed the hearts of aesthetically anxious intellectuals. As soon as "Stagnation" came to replace those happy times, they immediately became an occasion for nostalgia. It was an epoch when people believed that Stalin's dark times would return. People came back from concentration camps, and the whole country sang songs – absolutely different from those that were heard a decade earlier.
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Laughing loudly, frowning or shouting, swinging his smallish hands, paunchy, madly vigorous, and without the slightest shade of complexes – he became the symbolic figure for the Soviet people and the rest of the world.
Works by Dmitry Baltermants, Emmanuil Evzerihin, Victor Akhlomov, Valery Gende-Rote and other known photographers are represented in this nostalgic exhibition. Even in the most dramatic and ambiguous
photos, people look open, naive and almost happy. The past becomes sweet memories.
The exhibition is on from February 16 through March 10 at Moscow's Manezh Central Exhibition Hall.
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It seem to me that Mr Khrushchev was the most underestimated political leader of the 20 thief Century. at home, he brooks off from the Stalin era and at the planetary level, was confronted to the over expending capitalist hegemony. He was strong enough to show to the imperialists what they could do and what they could not do without being sucked in too dangerous confrontations. He knew that to be respected by the Americans, one must show strength, not weakness. Mr Medvedev should study Nikita Khrushchev's legacy and not bind over all those creeps former US secretary of state. Sincerely... Jean-Claude Meslin
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