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Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin's Russia (eBook, PDF)

This book is devoted to the phenomenon of removal of people declared "public enemies" from group photographs in Stalin's Russia. The book is based on long-term empirical research in Russian archives and includes 57 photographs that are exceptional in terms of historical interest: all these images bear traces of editing in the form of various marks, such as blacking-out, excisions or scratches. The illustrative materials also include a group of photographs with inscriptions left by officers of Stalin's secret police, the NKVD. To approach this extensive visual material, Denis Skopin draws on a wealth of Stalin-era written sources: memoirs, diaries and official documents. He argues that this kind of political iconoclasm cannot be confused with censorship nor vandalism. The practice in question is more harrowing and morally twisted, for in most cases the photos were defaced by those who were part of victim's intimate circle: his/her colleagues, friends or even close family members. The book will be of interest to scholars working in history of photography, art history, visual culture, Russian studies and Russian history and politics.

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Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin's Russia (eBook, ePUB)

This book is devoted to the phenomenon of removal of people declared "public enemies" from group photographs in Stalin's Russia. The book is based on long-term empirical research in Russian archives and includes 57 photographs that are exceptional in terms of historical interest: all these images bear traces of editing in the form of various marks, such as blacking-out, excisions or scratches. The illustrative materials also include a group of photographs with inscriptions left by officers of Stalin's secret police, the NKVD. To approach this extensive visual material, Denis Skopin draws on a wealth of Stalin-era written sources: memoirs, diaries and official documents. He argues that this kind of political iconoclasm cannot be confused with censorship nor vandalism. The practice in question is more harrowing and morally twisted, for in most cases the photos were defaced by those who were part of victim's intimate circle: his/her colleagues, friends or even close family members. The book will be of interest to scholars working in history of photography, art history, visual culture, Russian studies and Russian history and politics.

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The Gap Yah Plannah, Hörbuch, Digital, 167min

Orlando, the original Sloane-dog and intrepid gapper, will finally release his diaries to inspire other travellers to follow in his chunder-filled footsteps. From sleepless nights in Buenos Aires to charitable endeavours in Tanzanah, Orlando will give the low-down on the ultimate gap experience…Just back from his travels, our intrepid Sloane-dog wants to pass on the knowledge he has literally gleaned about the world's best cash-lash ratio hotspots, cultural landmarks (bars), and the ways of societies other than our own (shooting a cow in Cambodia). Rootling around Tarquin's rucksack, Orlando finds a battered guidebook – sadly all but completely defaced with chunder from one of their many heroic Pisco Sour, Margarita or Mai Tai sessions. So to compile the ultimate dossier of advice for the generations that will follow in his Ugg-booted footsteps, Orlando has snipped out the salvageable bits and interspersed them with pages from his own diary and a few other bits and bobs he's found on the net or in the lining of his bag. From budgeting for your time away (mummy and daddy's credit card) and what not to bring (landmines – they've already got plenty over here, if anything, too many), to how to say 'vomcano' in Spanish, this is the absolutely essential spiritual, political and cultural guide to making the most of your gap yah. Language: English. Narrator: Orlando. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000924/bk_hcuk_000924_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Idiot Government Reviews: A Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy Book , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 105min

We've all seen the news over the last few years, watching in wonder and disbelief at the situations the people entrusted to run the country get themselves into and then proceed to lie their way out of. Just imagine--and this won't be hard--that they were so stupid they wrote reviews of the items that got them into or out of their latest bits of trouble and posted them online. Ted Williebond is angry, not only at having to settle for running the opposition but also for the bullying he had to endure at school by Cameron Davies and Gary Osburn, who now run the government and don't mind pointing that out to Ted every time they see him. Join Ted as he foolishly leaves reviews of such items as Silly String, vodka, and thick curtains as he tries his hardest to bring down the coalition. On the other side of the fence, we've got Daniel Dangly, a foolhardy, old-school politician from Southamptonshire who, try as he might, cannot outrun the press, who seem to stalk him for easy stories; and Elouise Munch, a career girl more concerned about who's defaced her designer handbag than the people in her constituency. Neither Cameron Davies nor Ted Williebond runs the show, though; in fact Betty Rivers, the CEO of Information Inc., does. It can't work out well, can it? Welcome to The Idiot Government Reviews. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Scheinman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029184/bk_acx0_029184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min

When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, her eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs - the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves. But when Joey McGinty, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's back room, Lydia's life comes unglued. Always Joey's favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and books - the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books, she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to contain a hidden message. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia? As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey's suicide, she unearths a long-buried memory from her own violent childhood. Details from that one bloody night begin to circle back. Her distant father returns to the fold along with an obsessive local cop and the Hammerman, a murderer who came into Lydia's life long ago and, as she soon discovers, never completely left. Bedazzling, addictive, and wildly clever, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is a heart-pounding mystery that perfectly captures the intellect and eccentricity of the bookstore milieu and will keep you guessing until the very end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Madeleine Maby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007970/bk_sans_007970_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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I've Had It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min

In Lucifer's mind, there are legions of demons bound to his will. His will is to unleash the hell humans have created with all their wrongs on earth so that everyone gets their due. His rue shall be done come kingdom come.His will is to right all wrongs including his own. To return to heaven and to make heaven a place on earth. After all, he's not just the Lord of Hell, he's also been given dominion over earth.Heaven would have come down long before had not humans created such a hell on earth. Human population now reaching exponential growth has in turn churned many more ready to be burned in hell. With so many, hell is now like an overflowing well of worms. There's no more room. Not even for the likes of Lucifer.With no room to grow, many are now lost to live in limbo. Imagine a room, a train car; better yet a cave or cavernous vault, with so many people stuffed inside there's no room to move. Just squirming like worms, like maggoty meat deep in hell's heat. The stink and stench, the scratching and scraping, the screaming and scheming is sickening.And this is just limbo.... Hell is a hell of a lot worse, with the gnashing and biting; faces defaced, clawed raw with the misery, the maw. The worms, the germs, the bacteria and diarrhea with no sleep or place to keep. The insanity, the lost vanity; the cruel rule of hell's fuel for all to feel will reel those responsible for their actions.The popes, priests and pastors in the past responsible for burning witches at stakes now in turn burn in an internal, infernal and eternal hell. The bloody battles, inquisitions, and spurious suspicions will now have jurisdiction forever over those responsible.A perpetual nightmare is what's to come for those who have done wrong in the name of the Lord.Those who have killed, maimed in the name of the Lord, for money or for possession now find themselves killed, maimed in the same form or fashion, or forever stressed with being obsesse ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Zeigdel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101183/bk_acx0_101183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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LEGACY MAGAZIN: THE VOICE FROM THE DARKSIDE

Aus dem Inhalt der Ausgabe:Death And The Power It Holds: In der 137 findet Ihr ein 16-seitiges Special über Leben und (Nach-)Wirken von Chuck Schuldiner, zudem Meshuggah in dynamischer Unabänderlichkeit plus Crowbar über alkoholfreies Bier und optimistischen Wandel. Außerdem: Tankard erinnern sich an ihre wilde Jugend, Watain betreiben Selbstreflexion, Crisix wurden im Studio ausgehorcht, Eucharist philosophieren über vorchristliche Sexualität und Dark Funeral zu Sinn und Unsinn von rauschenden Garagensounds u.v.m.PLUS 3 CDs:1. EXKLUSIVE DEATH-TRIBUTE-CD mit 16 Tracks: Mayhem, Sepultura, Obscura, Epica, Sinister, Desaster, Illdisposed, Abysmal Dawn, Atrocity, Pessimist, Insidious Disease, Profanity, Acheron, Gory Blister, Depression, Neurosis (Col) 2. LEGACY-COMPILATION mit 13 Tracks: Nightrage, Furze, Stray Gods, Xicution, Mesentery, Mortal Hatred, Firn, Ad Unum Omnes, Fairytale, Magic O Metal, Corroder, Dead Ficus, Beyond The Barricade3. EXKLUSIVE SINGLE: THE BWPP "The Cold Of Frost"STUDIOREPORTE: Crisix, Hellsótt, Jungle Rot, Udo DirkschneiderLABEL SPECIAL: Darkness Shall Rise RecordsPOSTER: Amorphis, DestructionZusätzlich zu den Titel- und Band-Features der CDs gibt es Interviews mit:8 Kalacas, Abstracted, Agathodaimon, Archvile King, Arð, Bâ'a, Bhleg, BillyBio, Black Altar, Blackslash, Bloodred, Bloodywood, Cadaveria, Cobra The Impaler, Confidential, Crown Magnetar, Dæmonesq, Darkher, Dawnrider, Deathawaits, Deathcult, Deficiency, Diablo, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Dragonbreed, Eight Bells, E-L-R, Embryonic Devourment, Erebe, Evil Invaders, Extinction A.D., Fetal Blood Eagle, Final Cry, Fueled By Fire, Girish And The Chronicles, Grailknights, Gutter Creek, Hammerfall, Hexen, In Aphelion, Incite, J.B.O., Kalandra, Keops, Konvent, Lautstærke, Lesson In Violence, Lunar Tombfields, Månegarm, Mind Patrol, Miseration, Mors Principium Est, Mortem, Mortuary Drape, Mountaineer, Nanna Barslev, Near Death Condition, New Horizon, Pike Vs The Automaton, Port Noir, Powergame, Powerwolf, Ravenfield, Rise Of Kronos, Rotten Casket, Sabaton, Schizophrenia, Serious Black, Sir Reg, Soulline, Sowulo, Spiral Skies, Svartsot, The Defaced, The Horror Legacy, The Spirit, The Violent Inzident, Ultra Silvam, V/Haze Miasma, Vanir, Vinegar Hill, Warpath, Wolves At The Gate

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Fallen Idols

'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy this book.' Suzannah Lipscomb, author, award-winning historian and broadcaster'Like all the best historians von Tunzelmann uses the past to explain what the hell is going on today. She does so with a flair, her signature mix of scholarship and succinctness that is so compelling. If you want to make sense of the statues debate, and the coming culture war over our history, this is where you need to start.' Dan Snow'A timely, sparkling and often hilarious book.' Michael WoodIn the past few years, there has been a rush to topple statues. Across the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Belgium and elsewhere, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced and in some cases hauled down statues of slaveholders, Confederate icons, and imperialists. In Bristol, Edward Colston was knocked off his plinth and hurled into the harbour. Robert E. Lee was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Christopher Columbus was toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. King Leopold II of the Belgians was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill was daubed with the word 'racist' in London. The backlash from conservatives has been fast and intense.Statues are one of the most visible forms of historical storytelling, maybe the most visible. The stories we tell are vital to how we as societies understand our past and make our future. The ultimate question is: 'who controls history?'FALLEN IDOLS tells the story of twelve toppled statues around the world. It will look at why they were put up in the first place; the stories they were intended to tell; the symbolism they came to embody; and the manner and consequences of their removal.History is not erased when statues are pulled down. If anything, it is made.

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