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Unpersons and Untruth: Reality, Photography, and the Manipulation of Stalinism

“Defaced images like the ones explored above suggest that at the very heart of Stalinism was a contorted relationship to reality. This was not something on the fringes of the way the state ran, or the way the people experienced the Soviet Union. Survival in Stalin’s regime hinged on the existence of multiple, contradictory, simultaneous realities.”