Red Star over Russia illustrated by Yvan Duque Kim Leggett’s first book

Kim Leggett’s first book

Gaby’s love of food is contagious

Though born in the United States

the highlight of the year is the Lenten ball—the Mad Women’s Ball—when the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpêtrière dressed up in their finery for one night only

This region of northeastern Spain boasts a unique variety of landscapes

Red Star over Russia illustrated by Yvan Duque Kim Leggett’s first bookNow in paperback, Red Star Over Russia is a breathtaking visual history, using posters, photographs, paintings, magazine covers, advertisements, and ephemera to illustrate the dramatic birth and eventual decline of the Soviet Union. The book plunges the reader into the shattering events that brought hope, chaos, heroism, and horror to the citizens of the worlds first workers state. The Russian Revolution produced some of the most important advances in