The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee

The Ransom of Russian Art

John McPhee

192 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative medium-paced

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In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United States...

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