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From: "Carmen MacDougall" <cmacdougall@ceip.org>
Subject: Soviets: Pictures from the End of the USSR
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001

Readers of Johnson's List in the Washington area are invited to attend a signing for a new book of photographs, "Soviets: Pictures from the End of the USSR," by Shep Sherbell on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 7-9 p.m., KramerBooks & Afterwords, 1517 Conn. Ave., NW, just above above Dupont Circle in Washington DC.

In the foreword, Serge Schmemann writes: "time spent in..that black-and-white world that Sherbell has captured will stay with me forever. It is where I learned about the avarice and cruelty of unconstrained state power..and the enormous capacity of the human spirit to persevere." From a NYT review: "If what you seek is something polished, pleasant, and acceptably provocative, [this] is not the coffee table book for you. ...Sherbell's keen eye has discovered why this most enduring of authoritarian systems did not, after all, prevail."

Others can see the photographs in a fairly extensive web site: www.sovietsbook.com

Carmen MacDougall
Vice President for Communications
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-939-2319
Fax: 202-332-0925
www.ceip.org

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