by David King

isbn: 0805052941
subject: Nonfiction, Media, History
finished: 8/14/1999

In Stalinist Russia, when someone influential was shot or sent to the Gulag, their physical disappearance was not enough -- they were also retroactively eliminated from the public record. The Commissar Vanishes is a chilling and often surreal collection of photographs from this period. There are several versions of each picture: the original and one or more edited versions, each containing fewer people. Recommended.