Nikolai Yezhov - Wikipedia
WEBNikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Николай Иванович Ежов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge.Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture and executions during the …
How Photos Became a Weapon in Stalin’s Great Purge
WEBApr 20, 2018 · Stalin used a large group of photo retouchers to cut his enemies out of supposedly documentary photographs. One such erasure was Nikola Yezhov, a secret police official who oversaw Stalin’s...
From Blurring Imperfections to Falsifying Reality: How ... - HistoryNet
WEBJul 13, 2021 · During the 1930s the retouching went from the somewhat innocent act of blurring facial imperfections to the pernicious practice of falsifying reality. In the later years of Stalin’s tenure, those who ran afoul of the Soviet leader were simply erased.
The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the …
WEBJul 15, 2018 · A portrait of Djakhan Abidova, a woman in the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, deliberately damaged as part of an effort to erase her in the nineteen-thirties. Photograph by Samuel Cole / Tate. How...
RUSSIA-MANIPULATED PICTURE-YEZHOV - HistoryNet
WEBYezhov was the senior figure in the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) under Joseph Stalin during the period of the Great Purge. After Yezhov was tried and executed his likeness was removed from this image between 1939-1991.
Inside Stalin's Darkroom - Hoover Institution
WEBApr 30, 1998 · Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov (on the left) stroll along the Moscow-Volga canal with Comrade Stalin and NKVD (secret police) boss Nikolai Yezhov, who was arrested and executed in 1939. According to the retouched photo, Yezhov never existed.
The revelation of erasure – Tate Etc | Tate
WEBThe fondest, least plausible dream of Modernist art and literature was of a world without memory: a cultural tabula rasa from which all trace of the styles of the past had been erased.
Nikolai Yezhov: A Portrait of the “Bloody Dwarf”. Part 1: Stalin's ...
WEBSep 10, 2021 · Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (1895-1940) was, in his prime, the head of the infamous Soviet secret police, the NKVD, and a confidant of Stalin himself. He was a key perpetrator and the namesake of the Yezhovshchina, the Great Terror of 1936-1938, earning him the nickname “The Bloody Dwarf” in reference to his small stature.
Airbrushed out of history in the USSR - Part 1 - Delfi EN
WEBSep 25, 2017 · Yezhov earned the nickname 'The Vanishing Commissar' among art historians for his disappearance from photographs after his execution in 1940. Below is the original photo of Soviet leaders posing by the Moscow canal.
Nikolay Ivanovich Yezhov | Stalin’s Henchman, NKVD Chief, …
WEBNikolay Ivanovich Yezhov was a Russian Communist Party official who, while chief of the Soviet security police (NKVD) from 1936 to 1938, administered the most severe stage of the great purges, known as Yezhovshchina (or Ezhovshchina). Nothing is known of his early life (he was nicknamed the “Dwarf”.
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