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• vii • • Illustrations • I.1 Khaldei family in 1920 6 1.1 Sergei Levitsky, Bukharan Jews, late nineteenth century 14 1.2 Cover of original 1899 Ogonyok magazine 18 1.3 Moisei Nappelbaum, Vladimir Lenin in Smolny, January 1918 21 1.4 Cover of Ogonyok, first issue of Soviet edition, 1923 24 1.5 Arkady Shaykhet, Kiev Rail Station, 1936 28 2.1 Semyon Fridlyand, Parachutist, 1920s 32 2.2 Mark Markov-Grinberg, Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1926 38 2.3 Mark Markov-Grinberg, Nikita Izotov, 1934 47 2.4 Evgenii Khaldei, Worker in Donbass, 1934 48 2.5 Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Maxim Gorky, 1936 49 2.6 Georgii Zelma, Joseph Stalin, probably at the Eighth All-Union Congress of Soviets, December 1936 51 3.1 Georgii Zelmanovitch, Woman reading local newspaper, mid-1920s 61 3.2 Georgii Zelmanovitch, Voice of Moscow, 1925 62 3.3 Georgii Zelmanovitch, Boy reading Pushkin, 1920s 63 3.4 Semyon Fridlyand, Industrialization, late 1920s, early 1930s 64 3.5 Unknown, Jewish migrants arrive in Birobidzhan, early 1930s 68 3.6 Georgii Zelmanovitch, “Leah Feldman’s Garden Brigade,” Ogonyok, June 5, 1934 71 3.7 Semyon Fridlyand, “Children’s Colony,” Pravda, September 14, 1934 73 3.8 Semyon Fridlyand, “New Type of Jew: Beekeeper, Birobidzhan,” 1934, USSR in Construction, 1935, no. 3–4 74 3.9 Semyon Fridlyand, “New Type of Jew, T. Trochik, Birobidzhan,” 1934, USSR in Construction, 1935, no. 3–4 75 3.10 Unknown, Birobidzhan State Jewish Theater, USSR in Construction, 1935, no. 3–4 76 3.11 Semyon Fridlyand, “In Birobidzhan, Capital of the Autonomous Region,” 1934, Nashi Dostizheniia (Our Achievements), no. 6, June 1936 78 3.12 Semyon Fridlyand, “This Is How Life in the Taiga Begins,” 1934, Nashi Dostizheniia, no. 6, June 1936 79 3.13 Semyon Fridlyand, “Birofeld Beekeeping,” 1934, Nashi Dostizheniia, no. 6, June 1936 79 3.14 Semyon Fridlyand, “One of Many Violations of Biblical Law. A Pig Farm on the IKOR Jewish Collective Farm,” 1934, Nashi Dostizheniia, no. 6, June 1936 80 3.15 Semyon Fridlyand, “And What Is the ‘Right of Residence’? Children, IKOR Communal Farm, Birobidzhan,” 1934, Nashi Dostizheniia, no. 6, June 1936 80 3.16 Semyon Fridlyand, “The Sixth Day on the Valdheim Collective Farm,” 1934, Nashi Dostizheniia, no. 6, June 1936 81 3.17 Semyon Fridlyand, “The State Farm Stalinfeld, Birobidzhan,” 1934, Nashi Dostizheniia, no. 6, June 1936 82 4.1 Evgenii Khaldei, “Molotov’s Announcement of War,” June 1941 89 4.2 “The Soviet People Have Decided: Destroy the Fascist Bandits,” Ogonyok, no. 18, June 25, 1941 90 4.3 Emmanuel Evzerikhin, “Declaration of War,” June 1941 91 4.4 Semyon Fridlyand, “On the Fronts of the Patriotic War,” Ogonyok, September 1941 97 4.5 “Punishment in Poland. Those Sentenced Are Forced to Dig Their Own Graves,” Ogonyok, June 25, 1941 98 4.6 Evgenii Khaldei, Woman in Murmansk, 1942 100 4.7 Dmitrii Baltermants, “Kerch Resident P. I. Ivanova Found Her Husband,” January 1942 101 4.8 Dmitrii Baltermants, “Residents of Kerch Search for Their Relatives,” Ogonyok, March 2, 1942 102 4.9 Evgenii Khaldei, “Soviets Dig a Grave,” Kerch, 1942 103 4.10 Dmitrii Baltermants and Israel Ozerskii, “Hitlerite Atrocities in Kerch,” Ogonyok, March 2, 1942 104 4.11 Evgenii Khaldei, Residents of Kerch examine TASS Windows, 1942 107 4.12 “We Will Get Revenge,” Ogonyok, August 2, 1942 110 4.13 Arkady Shaykhet, “Battle for Stalingrad,” Ogonyok, November 15, 1942 113 4.14 Semyon Fridlyand, “Fighting near the Don,” Ogonyok, October 4, 1942 115 4.15 Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Stalingrad, 1942 116 4.16 Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Filmmaker, in Stalingrad, 1942 117 4.17 Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Fountain, Stalingrad, 1942 118 4.18 Georgii Zelma, crossing the Volga at Stalingrad, fall 1942 119 4.19 Georgii Zelma, Stalingrad, fall 1942 119 Illustrations • viii • [18.118.12.222] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 19:02 GMT) 4.20 Semyon Fridlyand, “Poltava Is Ours,” Ogonyok, September 30, 1943 126 4.21 Georgii Zelma, “Camera Operator Otilia Reizman,” 1945 129 4.22 Evgenii Khaldei, “Budapest,” 1945 130 4.23 Yakov Riumkin, “Battle for Budapest,” Ogonyok, no. 52, 1944 131 4.24 Sergei Loskutov, “Ruins of Warsaw,” Ogonyok, no. 4, February 1945 132 4.25 Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Warsaw across the Vistula, 1945 133 4.26 Dmitrii Baltermants, “Crossing the Oder,” 1945 135 4.27 Evgenii Khaldei, “Victory over Berlin,” Ogonyok, May 13, 1945 136 4.28 Evgenii Khaldei, Troops hearing Dolmatovskii at the Brandenburg Gate, 1945 137 4.29 Evgenii Khaldei and D. Chernov, “Conquered Berlin,” Ogonyok, May...

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