Recently. Our Era. 1946-1960

The seventh in count, "zero" in order, and one and a half in volume, this volume of the book project "Recently" covers 15 post-war years: 1946-1960. Equal parts divided by Stalin's death, they encompassed two eras: the mature Soviet empire... and the beginning of its collapse. This is why the events, people, and phenomena are so bright and contrasting. From the "freezes" to the "thaw": AK-47 and Adenauer, Beria and Brigitte Bardot, "Vasily Terkin" and the Hungarian Uprising, gabardine and Picasso's "Dove", the "Doctors' Plot" and "Doctor Zhivago", Yves Montand and Ivan Brovkin, the Korean War and "Kuban Cossacks", pajamas and "Victory", Peron and "Moscow Nights", sovnarkhozy and stilyagi, "Sovremennik" and satellites, Hikmet and Khrushchev, Fadeev and the Festival.
This volume contains over 500 illustrations – photographs, posters, caricatures, reproductions of paintings and drawings from those years.