Dziga Vertov

This Soviet Avant-Garde Journal Published Some Of The 20th Century’s Greatest Minds

The Soviet avant-garde magazine LEF included work by some of the 20th century’s greatest artists – Monoskop has the full archive.

Out and About: Israeli Music for Syrian Protestors; The Shame of Playing Shylock

The DisUnited States: Vladimir Pozner’s 1930s America

When times are tough for capitalists, Marxists love to gloat. That is the conclusion to be drawn from an account of Depression-era America, “Les États-Désunis” (“The DisUnited States”), newly reprinted by Lux Editions in Montreal. Its author, the prolific Russian Jewish writer Vladimir Salomonovitch Pozner (1905-1992), a friend of Isaac Babel who was long resident in France, traveled across America in 1936, producing a lively piece of reportage.