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Fairytales is a work about the mystery and myth of the largest
country in the world. Treading the line between poignant realism
and humorous fantasy, Frank Herfort's project Fairy Tale of Russia
is a mesmerising, thought-provoking and at times chilling
collection of photographs from his journey through Russia. Surreal
imagery, colours and scenes lead on to candid shots of post-soviet
aesthetic in an honest and strikingly human sequence of photos.
German photographer Frank Herfort has spent over a decade
photographing the insides and outsides of spaces throughout the
East. His style is influenced by social realism: people are shown
in their everyday life, which seems to be made up by banal details.
His large-format artworks are hence an artistic combination of the
surreal and the straight-lined, with an irony detectable in the
pictorial language. Herfort's work brings a modern twist, seemingly
imported from the outside, that eradicates markers of time or
context and persuades the viewer to create their own narrative. The
images make a surreal, absurd impression; they raise more questions
than they answer. Each image in this series stands alone and tell
its own story, but together they seem to tell a whole fairytale.
Text in English, French, and German.
This volume brings together the latest work in Russian labour
history, based on exciting materials from previously closed
archives and collections. Sixteen essays, focusing on peasants and
workers, explore the lives and struggles of working people. Ranging
over a century of dramatic upheaval, from the late 1800s to the
present, the essays are organized around three broad themes:
workers' politics, incentives and coercion within industrial and
rural workplaces, and household strategies. The volume explores the
relationship between the peasantry and the working class, a nexus
that has been central to state policy, oppositional politics,
economic development, and household configuration. It profiles a
working class rent by divisions and defined not only by its
relationship to the workplace or the state, but also by its
household strategies for daily survival. The essays explore many
topics accessible for the first time, including the motivations of
women workers, roots of revolutionary activism, the revolutionary
movement outside the great cities, socialist opposition to the
Soviet regime, reactions of workers to Stalinist terror, socialist
tourism, peasant families in forced exile, and work discipline on
the collective farms.
Starting from a broad definition of labour relations as the full
range of vertical and horizontal social relations under which work
is performed, both within and outside the household, this volume
examines the way states have shaped and interacted with labour
relations in a wide range of periods and places, from the
sixteenth-century silver mines of Potosi in the Andes to late
twentieth-century Sweden, and from seventeenth-century Dzungharia
to early twentieth-century colonial Mozambique. The articles
presented look at very different types of states, from local and
regional power holders to nation states and empires, and explore
the activities of these states and their impact on labour relations
in three roles, as conquerors, employers and arbiters. The volume
finds diversity, but also a remarkable degree of similarity across
space and time in the mechanisms deployed by states to extract and
allocate the labour required to carry out their essential tasks.
The years 2002-2003 marked the seventieth anniversary of the
man-made famine inflicted on Ukraine and surrounding areas by
Stalin's Soviet leadership. The Harvard Ukrainian Research
Institute commemorated the anniversary with a symposium in October
2003 titled "The Ukrainian Terror-Famine of 1932-1933: Revisiting
the Issues and the Scholarship Twenty Years after the HURI Famine
Project." This volume contains some of the papers presented at the
symposium (previously published in Harvard Ukrainian Studies volume
25, no. 3/4), including Sergei Maksudov's large-scale demographic
study drawing on available documents of the era; Niccolo
Pianciola's description of the denomadization famine in Kazakhstan
from 1931 to 1933; and Gijs Kessler's study of events in the Urals
region from the same period. Also included in this volume are
Andrea Graziosi's remarks on the present state of Famine
scholarship and how it addresses the question of genocide, Hennadii
Boriak's assessment of the current state of source material, and an
essay by George Grabowicz on the legacy of the Famine in Ukraine
today.
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