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Just Like That

Folk Advance — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:52:20 +0000

Russian March

Folk Advance — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:08:06 +0000

Drawings From The Gulag

Folk Advance — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:30:53 +0000

A short animation from the book Drawings from the Gulag. The book consists of over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev — author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volumes I, II, III — describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918.

His work as a prison guard allowed Baldaev to travel across the former USSR and witness scenes of everyday life in the Gulag first-hand, chronicling this previously closed world from both sides of the wire. The drawings, made during the Communist period, form a devastating document, a haunting echo of the works of Varlam Shalamov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

With every vignette, Baldaev brings his characters to vivid life: from the lowest zek (inmate) to the most violent tattooed vor (thief), the practices and inhabitants of the Gulag system are revealed in incredible and shocking detail. He documents the contempt shown by the authorities to those imprisoned, and the transformation of these citizens into survivors or victims. This graphic depiction exposes the systematic methods of torture and mass murder of millions undertaken by the administration, as well as the atrocities committed by criminals on their fellow inmates.

Standing

Folk Advance — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:05:00 +0000

CPI

Folk Advance — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:20:30 +0000

We Love

Folk Advance — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:59:32 +0000

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?

- Excerpt From: Human, All Too Human. Aphorism 75 “Love and Duality”, by Friedrich Nietzsche

Won’t Take No For An Answer

Folk Advance — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:20:27 +0000

Protest

Folk Advance — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:37:02 +0000

Yegor – R.I.P.

Folk Advance — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:33:08 +0000

Sharing Knowledge

Folk Advance — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:33:30 +0000

Glory

Folk Advance — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:59:39 +0000

In The Streets

Folk Advance — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:50:21 +0000

Greek & Russian Comrades Unite

Folk Advance — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:05:24 +0000

Stop Imperialism

Folk Advance — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:05:37 +0000

Standing Strong

Folk Advance — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:47:55 +0000

First Rays From A Spring Sun

Folk Advance — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:58:59 +0000

Konsertti Suomessa

Folk Advance — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:45:17 +0000

First Line Shop

Folk Advance — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:37:23 +0000

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

Folk Advance — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:22:34 +0000

The Above Photo: listed as being from 1909 on the Complete Database of S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky.

Russkiy Obraz

Folk Advance — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:16:38 +0000