Agitating Images: Photography Against History in Indigenous Siberia

by Craig Campbell

Following the socialist revolution, a colossal shift in everyday realities began in the 1920s and '30s in the former Russian empire. Faced with the Siberian North, a vast territory considered culturally and technologically backward by the revolutionary government, the Soviets confidently undertook the project of reshaping the ordinary lives of the indigenous peoples in order to fold them into the Soviet state. In Agitating Images, Craig...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816681066
• ISBN13: 9780816681068
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 7.9"