Ordinary Citizens
The Victims of Stalin
by David King
Francis Boutle Publishers
ISBN 1 903427 15 0
Paperback 192 pages with 166 illustrations in black and white
Price per copy including postage: UK £19.99 Worldwide £24.99
The book
The book consists of 166 photographs taken from the interrogation files of the secret police in Moscow of those arrested on falsified charges, found guilty and shot during Stalin’s reign of terror from the late 1920s until his death in 1953 – engineers, artists, factory workers, teachers, housewives, heroes of the Soviet Union, even secret policemen themselves. Each photograph is accompanied by the basic details of that person’s life and the charges brought against them.
With an illustrated introduction by David King.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Stalin Ordinary Citizens commemorates the millions who died in the Soviet Union.
The author
David King has produced and designed many books on Soviet subjects, including a photographic biography of Leon Trotsky and The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia. He was art editor of the Sunday Times magazine from 1965 to 1975. He lives in London.
Ordinary Citizens is currently the subject of a travelling exhibition sponsored by the Centro Andaluz de la Fotographia, Almena.
