Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, illustrated by Marc Chagall contemporary art Since the Cold War ended

Since the Cold War ended and these borders came down

he predicted

this book searches for the remnants of revolutions both distant and recent and for the continuities with the Communist idea

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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, illustrated by Marc Chagall contemporary art Since the Cold War endedThis new translation by Donald Rayfield aspires to be the fullest, liveliest and most accurate version in English of Gogol's masterpiece. For the first time in English, Gogol's prose is illustrated with reproduction of Chagall's 96 engravings and 12 vignettes, major works by the artist of which only a few are widely reproduced. Two authorial comments by Gogol in Dead Souls make it seem as if he foresaw, nearly a century later, Chagall, with his eye