DESCRIPTION : Here for sale is an EXQUISITE PORTFOLIO named "LET MY PEOPLE GO" of the RUSSIAN DISSIDENT, The RUSSIAN Jewish artist JOSEF  ( Joseph ) KUZKOVSKI .  The Jewish Art portfolio is a BEAUTY . A museum quality artifact. .  It consists of 10 reproductions of KUZKOVSKI pieces , Printed as issued on separate extremely heavy stock sheets . A few text pages , An introduction and the list of pieces in HEBREW and ENGLISH . This edition was published around 45 years ago , in 1971 ( Dated ) in Tel Aviv , Israel By Lion The Printer . The portfolio is SIGNED and INSCRIBED in Russian , By another Kuzkovski , Propably his WIFE or another familly member. Original illustrated folded cardboard portfolio .  10 x 13 ".  10 separate stock sheets reproductions . Additional English and Hebrew text pp . Very good condition . The portfolio is very slightly worn . Inner perfect ( Please look at scan for actual AS IS images )  . Portfolio will be sent protected inside a protective rigid packaging .

AUTHENTICITY : This is an ORIGINAL vintage 1971 ART PORTFOLIO ( Dated ) . The FIRST and ONLY edition. NOT a reproduction or a reprint  , It holds a life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.

PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal & All credit cards.

SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $ 29  . It will be sent protected inside a protective rigid packaging . Handling around 5 -10 days after payment. 

Soviet dissidents were citizens of the Soviet Union who disagreed with the policies and actions of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet government and actively protested against these actions through either violent or non-violent means. Through such protests, Soviet dissidents incurred harassment, persecution, imprisonment or death by the KGB, or other Soviet government agencies.While dissent with Soviet policies and persecution for this dissent existed since the times of the 1917 October Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet power, the term is most commonly applied to the dissidents of the post-Stalin era, because after mass extermination of Stalin's political opponents the Soviet regime faced the new generation of opposition, and began attacking those intellectuals who opposed political censorship, repressions and other violations of human rights.Under Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev the Soviet regime continued intimidation of opponents by censorship, arrests, harassment, imprisonment and/or involuntary exile in of many prominent cultural leaders, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov, Yelena Bonner, Joseph Brodsky, Natan Sharansky, Pyotr Grigorenko, Yuli Daniel, Vasili Aksyonov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Aleksandr Galich, and others. A few cultural figures managed to escape from the Soviet regime, such as Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Lyudmila Makarova, Mikhail Shemyakin, William Brui, and others. Attacks on prominent dissidents ended with Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika in the late 1980s and partial liberation of political prisoners from GULAG prison-camps.However, the political leadership of post-soviet Russia continued harsh treatment of opposition by censorship, harassment, and/or imprisonment .From the early 1970s, the term dissident was first used in the Western media [1] and subsequently, with derision, by the Soviet propaganda. Human rights activists in the USSR then adopted this term in the mid-1970s.See also Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of We, the first work banned by the Soviet censorship board. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Andrei Sakharov Chronicle of Current Events (samizdat) Committee on Human Rights in the USSR Gulag Moscow Helsinki Group Samizdat Yelena Bonner Dissidence arose among Soviet intellectuals in the 1960s and expanded in the early 1970s. Challenging official policies became possible as Khrushchev loosened state controls, but the practice continued to grown when the boundaries of permissible expression contracted under the Brezhnev administration. It reflected the contradiction between an increasingly articulate and mobile society on the one hand and an increasingly sclerotic political order on the other. While never including more than a few thousand individuals, dissidents exercised a moral and even political weight far exceeding their numbers, and paralleled the self-proclaimed role of the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia as the "conscience of society." Dissidence took a variety of forms: public protests and demonstrations, open letters to Soviet leaders, and the production and circulation of manuscript copies (samizdat) of banned works of literature, social and political commentary. In addition, from 1968 until the early 1980s, the samizdat journal, The Chronicle of Current Events, served as a clearing house of information about human-rights violations in the Soviet Union. By the early 1970s, the dissident movement evinced three main currents. Democratic socialism, couched in terms of "scrupulous regard for democratic principles" and "the possibility of an alliance between the best of the intelligentsia supported by the people and the most forward-looking individuals in the governing apparat," was exemplified by the historian Roy Medvedev in his book, On Socialist Democracy (originally published in Amsterdam in 1972). Political liberalism and a strong defense of freedom of expression and other human rights was most famously articulated by the physicist, Andrei Sakharov in his essay, "Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom," which dates from 1968. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the novelist and author of GULAG Archipelago, embodied the third current which condemned western ideologies including Marxism in the name of Russian Orthodox values. In addition, human rights activities took up the cause of religious dissenters, Soviet Jews who had been denied permission to emigrate ("refuseniks"), and nationalities such as the Crimean Tatars. Soviet authorities attempted to repress these currents and activities by propaganda that discredited dissidents and their claims, confiscation of dissident literature, removal of dissidents from their jobs, prosecution and incarceration in mental institutions and prison, banishment to a provincial city or outlying region, or enforced exile with removal of Soviet citizenship. In 1974, Solzhenitsyn was deported from the Soviet Union. The network of underground groups set up after the Helsinki Accords of 1975 to monitor Soviet compliance with that agreement's human-rights provisions was hounded and decimated by arrests. Sakharov was stripped of his privileges as a member of the Academy of Sciences and, in 1980, consigned to internal exile. But Roy Medvedev's observation that "There is now a very widespread feeling that the way we live and work has become untenable," eventually would be repeated by Mikhail Gorbachev as justification for his policies of glasnost and perestroika. KUZKOVSKI, JOSEPH (1902–1970), Russian Jewish artist. Kuzkovski was born in Mogilev, Belorussia. In 1920 he enrolled at the Kiev Academy of Art, where in 1941 he held a one-man exhibition. He was selected as a member of a group of Russian representative artists at an exhibition in Oslo, Norway. During World War ii he lived in Uzbekistan, and it was during this period that he began to use Jewish themes and characters in a series of works which were lost. After the war he took up residence in Riga and devoted himself to themes connected with the Holocaust. Yosef Kuzkovski, Painter. b. 1902, Russia. Immigrated 1969. Studies: Painting Academy, Kiev. His painting, "The Last Road - Babi Yar", hangs in the Knesset. Died 1970, four months after immigration. *** KUZKOVSKI, JOSEPH (1902–1970), Russian Jewish artist. Kuzkovski was born in Mogilev, Belorussia. In 1920 he enrolled at the Kiev Academy of Art, where in 1941 he held a one-man exhibition. He was selected as a member of a group of Russian representative artists at an exhibition in Oslo, Norway. During World War ii he lived in Uzbekistan, and it was during this period that he began to use Jewish themes and characters in a series of works which were lost. After the war he took up residence in Riga and devoted himself to themes connected with the Holocaust. His greatest work, The Last Way, on Jews being led to their death at *Babi Yar, first exhibited in 1964, was acquired by the Knesset, where it is on permanent exhibition. Kuzkovski and his wife immigrated to Israel in 1969. He was engaged on what he called a sequel to The Last Way – Masada Shall Not Fall Again – the theme of which was to be hope instead of despair, but died before it was completed. An album of his works was published in 1971.     ebay2514