Description
This airbrushed version of the original photograph was probably first published in Joseph Stalin -- A Short Biography (Moscow, 1949) Gone from the original photograph are Nikolai Antipov and Nikolai Shvernik, who were in attendance to celebrate the destruction of G. Zinoviev's ant-Stalinist opposition in 1926. See David King, The Commissar Vanishes (New York, 1997) for the various reincarnations of the original photograph.
