WONDERLAND: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith

WONDERLAND: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith by Jason Eskenazi

Published by Red Hook Editions, 2020

Winner Best Photography Book 2008/ POYi

Condition: Very Good

The story of Communism is the story of the twentieth century. For many the Soviet Union existed, like their childhood, as a fairy tale where many of the realities of life were hidden from plain view. When the Berlin Wall finally fell, so too did the illusion of that utopia. Wonderland is a photographic exploration that portrays both the reality beneath the veneer of a utopian USSR and the affirmation of hope that should never be abandoned. And like all fairy tales try to teach us: the hard lessons of self-reliance.