Each of the boys has a need to express himself as individuals, but living in Stalin’s Russia makes that dangerous. One boy is a musician, but his hand his cut and thus his career. The other boy skates, but that ends in a tragedy. Yet another is a photographer and tragedy befalls his father.
Shaikhet; Light Bulb in a Hut; 1936Georgy Zelma, Military Parade on Red Square, 1933Arkady Shaikhet, Express, 1939Georgy Zelma, Meeting at the Kolkhoz, 1929Arkady Shaikhet, Red Army Marching in the Snow, 1927–28Alexander Rodchenko, Horse Race, 1935Arkady Shaikhet, Greeting the Chelyuskin Men, 1934Left- Arkady Shaikhet, Assembling the Globe at Moscow Telegraph Central Station, 1928 — Right- Arkady Shaikhet, The Parachutist Katya Melnikova, 1934Left- Alexander Rodchenko, Girl with a Leica, Portrait of Evgeniya Lemberg, 1933 — Right- Georgy Petrusov, Asiatic Sailor, ca 1935–36Left- Georgy Zelma, Three Generations in Yakutsk, 1929 — Right- Alexander Rodchenko, Sports Parade on Red Square, 1936
