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Maker(s):Vassiliev, Oleg Vladimirovich
Culture:Soviet (1931-2013), active in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the United States
Title:The House with the Mezzanine, No. 26
Date Made:1991
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph on cream paper
Measurements:Sheet: 29 3/4 x 21 in.; 75.6 x 53.3 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2010.164
Credit Line:Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The large photo in The Times of August 23, 1991, shows the dismantling of the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky that was located in front of the KGB headquarters in Moscow. Dzerzhinsky was the founder of the Soviet secret police. The photographs on the lower left feature the conspirators who initiated a short-lived coup d'etat in August 1991 that attempted to restore the Communist Party to its position as the dominant political force in Soviet life. This was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.

BJ, 2013

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