On Tuesday, March 18, please join writer Victoria Lomasko for a conversation with n+1 coeditor and publisher Mark Krotov. They’ll be discussing Lomasko’s new book, The Last Soviet Artist, out from n+1 Books in April and available for sale at the event.
The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. The n+1 office is wheelchair accessible. RSVP here.
Tuesday, March 18
7 PM
n+1 office
37 Greenpoint Ave #316
Brooklyn
About The Last Soviet Artist
In this powerful chronicle of change and resistance—a follow-up to the highly acclaimed Other Russias—the artist and journalist Victoria Lomasko (translated by Bela Shayevich) takes the measure of the post-Soviet space in the late Putin years. The Last Soviet Artist opens with a series of beautifully illustrated trips to Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Georgia, and the North Caucasus, where Lomasko interviews a long list of varied subjects (artists, activists, teachers, senior citizens, schoolchildren), about gender rights, grassroots politics, and the ghosts of the Soviet past. In the book’s second section, Lomasko depicts with great immediacy the drama of the Belarusian revolution and attends the final major protests in Russia on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine—which in turn leads to the third section, written entirely in exile. How do ordinary people navigate historic changes? How do different generations make sense of their shared present? Equally attentive to its interlocutors and their landscapes, The Last Soviet Artist is an unforgettable work of graphic reportage.
The Last Soviet Artist was published with support from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.