For the cheeky Russophile, a Soviet design booklist

Looking for Lenin

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Photographs by Niels Ackermann. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Sébastien Gobert, Myroslava Hartmond.

The eerie beauty of Ukraine’s Lenin statues, toppled in the name of decommunization

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 6.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/27/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 57   

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ISBN 9780993191176 TRADE
List Price: $32.50 CAD $42.50

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Alcohol: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Alexei Plutser-Sarno.

Soviet propaganda against the demon drink: the latest in Fuel’s Russian pop culture series

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5 x 8 in. / 248 pgs / 255 color / 5 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/25/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 24   

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ISBN 9780993191152 TRADE
List Price: $32.95 CAD $43.95

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Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums

Published by FUEL Publishing.
By Maryam Omidi. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell.

Architecturally diverse and ideologically staunch, Soviet sanatoriums were intended to edify and invigorate

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 6.5 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/24/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 59   

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ISBN 9780993191190 TRADE
List Price: $32.50 CAD $42.50

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CCCP COOK BOOK

True Stories of Soviet Cuisine

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Olga and Pavel Syutkin.

CCCP Cook Book is an amazing work of culinary history. The book as an object is a marvel ... It’s my new "You Must Buy This Book" recommendation for my foodie friends." –BoingBoing

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 95 color / 2 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/29/2015
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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 181   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780993191114 TRADE
List Price: $32.50 CAD $42.50

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Soviet Bus Stops

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Jonathan Meades. Text by Vera Kavalkova-Halvarsson, Christopher Herwig.

Soviet vernacular architecture across 18,000 miles in 14 countries

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 6.5 in. / 192 pgs / 160 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/29/2015
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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 60   

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ISBN 9780993191107 TRADE
List Price: $32.50 CAD $42.50

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Soviets

Drawings by Danzig Baldaev. Photographs by Sergei Vasiliev.

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell.

Communism’s winners and losers: drawings expressing the absurdities of Soviet life, from the archive of Russian Criminal Tattoo’s Danzig Baldaev

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 181 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/30/2014
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 52   

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ISBN 9780956896278 TRADE
List Price: $32.95 CAD $43.95

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Alexei Plutser-Sarno. Text by Danzig Baldaev. Photographs by Sergei Vasiliev.

The first installment of the tattoo collection that became a publishing phenomenon

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/31/2009
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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 178   

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ISBN 9780955862076 TRADE
List Price: $32.95 CAD $43.95

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Volume II

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Introduction by Anne Applebaum. Foreword by Alexel Pluster-Sarno. Photographs by Sergey Vasiliev. Drawings by Danzig Baldaev.

An essential second installment of the bestselling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 4.75 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2011
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Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 178   

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ISBN 9780955006128 TRADE
List Price: $32.95 CAD $43.95

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Introduction by Alexander Sidorov.

"A fantastic, mind-blowing photo and graphics book documenting the subculture of tattooing in Russian prisons." –David Cronenberg

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/1/2008
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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 67   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780955006197 TRADE
List Price: $32.95 CAD $43.95

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Danzig Baldaev: Drawings from the Gulag

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell.

Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's father, a respected ethnographer, taught him techniques to record the tattoos of criminals in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison, where Danzig worked as a guard. He was reported to the K.G.B. who unexpectedly offered support for his work, allowing him the opportunity to travel across the former U.S.S.R. Witnessing scenes of everyday life in the Gulag, he chronicled this previously closed world from both sides of the wire. With every vignette, Baldaev brings the characters he depicts to vivid life: from the lowest "zek" (inmate) to the most violent tattooed "vor" (thief), all the practices and inhabitants of the Gulag system are depicted here in incredible and often shocking detail. In documenting the attitude of the authorities to those imprisoned, and the transformation of these citizens into survivors or victims of the Gulag system, this graphic novel vividly depicts methods of torture and mass murder undertaken by the administration, as well as the atrocities committed by criminals upon their fellow inmates.

Danzig Baldaev was born in 1925 in Ulan-Ude, Buryatiya, Russia. In 1948, after serving in the army in World War II, he was ordered by the N.K.V.D. to work as a warden in the infamous Leningrad prison, Kresty, where he started drawing the tattoos of criminals. His collection of drawings, which he made in different reformatory settlements for criminals all over the former U.S.S.R. over a period of more than 50 years, have been published by Fuel in three volumes, in the bestselling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series.

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 30 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/31/2010
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Catalog: FALL 2010 p. 46   

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ISBN 9780956356246 TRADE
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Soviet Space Dogs

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Olesya Turkina.

Celebrating the dogs that conquered the final frontier, in ephemera and collectibles

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 350 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2014
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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 47   

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ISBN 9780956896285 TRADE
List Price: $32.95 CAD $43.95

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The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941

Published by Steidl.
Edited by Mikhail Karasik, Manfred Heiting.

The Soviet Union was unique in its dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the form of the book, the USSR articulated its utopian (and eventually totalitarian) ideologies and expressed its absolute power through avant-garde writing and radical graphic design that was in full flower during the 1920s and 1930s.

No other country or political system advanced its cause by attracting and employing acclaimed members of the avant-garde. Among them were writers such as Semion Kirsanov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Selvinsky, Sergei Tretyakov and Kornely Zelinsky; artist designers such as Gustav Klutsis, Valentina Kulagina, El Lissitzky, Sergei Senkin, Varvara Stepanova, Solomon Telingater and Nikolai Troshin; and photographers such as Dmitry Debabov, Vladimir Griuntal, Boris Ignatovich, Alexander Khlebnikov, Yeleazar Langman, Alexander Rodchenko and Georgy Petrusov, not to mention many of the best printing plants and bookbinders.

Gorgeously produced, edited and designed, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 presents 160 of the most stunning and elaborately produced photobooks from this period and includes more than 400 additional reference illustrations. The book also provides short biographies of the photobook contributors, some of whom are presented for the first time.

PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10.5 x 11.25 in. / 636 pages / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/24/2015
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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 5   

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ISBN 9783958290310 TRADE
List Price: $150.00 CAD $200.00

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Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932

Published by Royal Academy Publications.
Text by John Milner, Natalia Murray, Nick Murray, Masha Chlenova, Ian Christie, John E. Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler, Zelfira Tregulova, Faina Balakhovskaya, Evgenia Petrova, Christina Lodder.

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, this comprehensive survey explores all aspects of its groundbreaking art

PUBLISHER
Royal Academy Publications

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 320 pgs / 350 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/25/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 6   

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ISBN 9781910350430 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CAD $55.00

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Soviet Textiles

Designing the Modern Utopia

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Essay by Pamela Jill Kachurin.

Between 1927 and 1933, as the new Soviet Union emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young artists pitched in by designing fabrics depicting tractors, smokestacks and symbols of collective modernity, cloth with which to mold its buyers into ideal Soviet citizens. Few of these designs ever saw mass production, and the experiment failed as propaganda--comrades clung to their traditional floral motifs--but it yielded bold and intriguing new designs. Soviet Textiles: Designing the Modern Utopia presents some 40 of them, and analyzes the political and artistic context in which they were made. Pamela Jill Kachurin identifies major themes and motifs, including industrialization, transportation, electrification, youth, agriculture and collectivization, and sports and hobbies, and analyzes the work both as propaganda and as graphic art, in this, the only English-language book to treat them from that perspective.

PUBLISHER
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 52 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/1/2006
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Catalog: FALL 2006

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ISBN 9780878467037 TRADE
List Price: $24.95 CAD $33.95 GBP £22.00

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files

Volume I

Published by FUEL Publishing.
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Arkady Bronnikov.

Continuing Fuel’s exploration of Soviet culture, unforgettable photographs of extraordinary tattoos

PUBLISHER
FUEL Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5 x 8 in. / 256 pgs / 186 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/22/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 43   

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ISBN 9780956896292 TRADE
List Price: $32.50 CAD $42.50

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