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The legacy of Stalinism (?)

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Date:

1989-1994

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Art

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Item ID number:

2968005

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Paul Gilligan fonds

The legacy of Stalinism (?)
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Date(s):

1989-1994

Place:

Ottawa

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : acrylic wash over black pencil and black marker on white card
Support 35.300 x 27.800 cm

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Depicted is a large facing portrait (head and shoulders) of Joseph Stalin, in a Soviet Army officers uniform, set against the background of a solid brick wall, symbolic of the Soviet prison/gulag system. In the scene, the portrait of Stalin overlooks a mass grave, where the bodies of some of his victims are in the process of being buried, at night. The dead are being thrown off the back of a military vehicle (left), by three figures, into an open pit, while, on the right side of the pit, a man is throwing earth on to the dead, with a shovel. Behind him, a second man, with a rifle slung over his shoulder, looks on

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Artist: Gilligan, Paul, 1965-

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Signed., Inscription: inscribed recto, with a metal point/exacto knife, on the image, l.r.: "gilligan"
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political

social

politique

cartoon / dessin humoristique

Stalin, Joseph // Union of Soviet Socialist Republics // Repression /
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Private

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1994-455 DAP
00068
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Record must be consulted under the supervision of an Archivist

Item no. assigned by LAC [00068] 68

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-455-68
Copyright: Paul Gilligan

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