an announcement for STALINKA, a digital library of Staliniana

[goscilo]

Dear Colleagues,


The University of Pittsburgh team of Susan Corbesero and Helena Goscilo 
take pleasure in announcing the expansion of their STALINKA, a 
comprehensive digital library of Staliniana for educational purposes.

STALINKA is a scholarly-referenced collection (of more than 500 images) 
comprising representations of Stalin in various genres: portraits, 
paintings, sculptures, posters, political cartoons, propaganda leaflets, 
photographs, newspaper graphics, and material objects.  The website 
assembles images from major European and American museums, photographic 
archives, artists, and private collections, including the Tret'iakov 
Gallery in Moscow, the Archive of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian 
Federation (ROSIZO), the Museum for Contemporary History in Moscow, the 
Russian State Library, the TASS Photographic Archives, the Central Museum 
of the Great Patriotic War, the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian & East 
European Culture, The Museum of Russian Art, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art 
Museum, and the private art and photograph collections of Vitalii Komar and 
Aleksandr Melamid, Leonid Sokov, and Artem Zadikian.  The collection 
provides visuals of historical artifacts from the Revolutionary, Stalinist, 
post-socialist, and Second World War periods.

Hosted by the DRL (Digital Research Library) within the University Library 
System (ULS), these images may be accessed at:

http://images.library.pitt.edu/s/stalinka

We welcome anyone and everyone to the site, but emphasize that (1) all the 
images are copyrighted and may not be disseminated or used outside the 
classroom without permission; (2) we are not empowered to give that 
permission, which must be sought from the pertinent entity or individual 
identified in the metadata on the site. We also welcome all scholarly input 
and feedback.  Please note that the DRL middleware for the site is 
currently being upgraded and diacritics for the recent Polish political 
cartoons temporarily have been replaced with simpler characters.

Helena Goscilo

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