Gibson: "To try and bring some of the striking images to a wider audience and show something of the vast range of material held in the archive.
In general to build on the continuing and growing UK interest in Russia and its history. David Hopkins, Special Exhibitions Manager, IWMN: "Also to show how the image is important in making and shaping our interpretation of events and history - in particular in the early years of the Soviet Union, when the regime had many opponents, the photograph was an important way of celebrating the achievements of the Soviet Union and its workers.
They're super examples of socialist realism - documentary yet ambiguous, because as we now know the process of collectivisation resulted in worsening the conditions of the famine of in which millions died. How do you choose 30 images from the , in the RIA Novosti archive? Gibson: "With great difficulty!
By roughly dividing the Soviet era into 5 main sections the revolution and early years of Soviet power, building of the Soviet state, the 2nd World War, Cold War, and the Gorbachev period , we broke down the task a little.
On a practical level, searching the digital archive is made considerably easier as collections from individual photographers or particular years can be selected and viewed relatively quickly. Hopkins: "Some images select themselves simply because of their iconographic value, such as the Victory Banner over the Reichstag or the Battalion Commander. Others work as pairs - for example, one in the section on the Revolution shows a soldier addressing a crowd near the Anchikov Palace in Petrograd St Petersburg and the very last image in the show is a pro-democracy demonstration in Together they make a great first and last view of what created and finished the Soviet experiment.
Soviet Times sums up an entire era of history. What difficulties were there in portraying the period? The selection process could then focus on the images themselves rather than subject matter — i. Gibson: "The Arkady Shaiket photo of the peasants viewing the lightbulb. The look of genuine wonder on the old woman's face is particularly striking.
I think Shaiket succeeds in his aim of showing the positive transformation in the lives of ordinary Russians. At the time - - I suspect he, like most Russians, viewed the future with tremendous optimism. Hopkins: "I think my favourite would have to be the Victory Banner over the Reichstag because it works on so many levels. It is a really striking image in its own right. Plus it has become lodged in our consciousness as the victory image - as a propaganda image it tells us precisely who won the war in Europe.
Home Explore the BBC. Meduza has learned how a Russian state news agency cooked it up in the first place. Not all outlets believed the official reports, however. Some time later, the text was modified though the original version is archived and still available online. Johnson soon recovered and was discharged on April 12 without ever needing a ventilator. Other staff at the agency never found out who this source was.
I don't wish Johnson any misfortune or suffering, even though he's an Englishman. I wish him good health and a speedy return to active political work. His condition was serious, though Downing Street denied everything and insisted that he was only undergoing testing.
A source told Meduza that the news agency has a tendency to write a lot about how Western countries are struggling against the coronavirus epidemic.
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