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The ransom of Russian art

by John McPhee

An account of an American professor's clandestine operation to smuggle thousands of works by unofficial dissident artists out of the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1986. The text explores his methods and the lives of the artists involved.

Accession 19750 ISBN 0374246823 Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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