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Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Children's Books and Graphic Art
Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary examines both the intensive and extensive dimensions of Soviet posters and children books. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Aug. 22 — Dec. 30, 2011 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia Art |
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An Art of Persuasion: Soviet Posters from the Library's Collections
The exhibit showcases twenty-four Soviet political posters from the 1930s. Drawn from the E.M. Bakwin Collection of Soviet Posters and the War Poster Collection in the Library, the exhibition explores the role that these images played in rallying the peoples of the Soviet Union to take up social, political, and war-time causes. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center July 1 — Oct. 31, 1987 |
Subjects
Art Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia |
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Red Press
Red Press: Radical Print Culture from St. Petersburg to Chicago represents the Bolshevik revolution as it was waged through broadsides, pamphlets, periodicals and posters. Many materials are drawn from the archive of Samuel N. Harper, son of the University’s founding president, the first American Russianist, and eyewitness to the revolution. Through these rare printed sources visitors can trace the worldwide spread of revolutionary and antirevolutionary media and ideas. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 25 — Feb. 2, 2018 View web exhibit >> |
Subjects
History Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia |
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Russian and Soviet Studies at the University of Chicago
This exhibition traces later developments through the career of Samuel N. Harper and other faculty specialists, the growth of library collections in Russian studies, the formation of the Committee on Slavic Area Studies, and the founding of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 31, 1977 |
Subjects
Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia |
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Ucrainiana: An Exhibition of Ukranian Books and Books about Ukraine
This exhibition of Ukrainian books honors the formal introduction of Ukrainian studies at the University of Chicago. It offers a general view of the history and culture of Ukraine from a growing body of books which are not frequently found in American libraries. |
Locations
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 31, 1971 |
Subjects
Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia |