I used to like going to the Columba Club or Felling WMC in Felling, with my granda in the very late 1980s/very early 1990s when I studied at the university of Newcastle upon Tyne. We’d sometimes got to the allotment beforehand to get some tomatoes from the greenhouse. I found myself in demand on quiz nights at the clubs. I’d normally be expected to supply answers to questions relating to popular culture. Beat music, fashions, that kind of thing.
These photocopies of multiple drawings of Politburo members (including – I think – Gorbachev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gromyko) somehow bring to mind the club members. I don’t want to speculate too much about any political similarities or sympathies. It was both a different world and looking at a different world, back then.
Photograph of a photocopy of 3 superimposed drawings of Politburo members. Taken from the picture book, ‘Russia from the Inside’, by Robert Kaiser and Hannah Jopling Kaiser. The photocopies were initially sellotaped on the window of my house in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Photograph of a photocopy of 3 superimposed drawings of Politburo members. Taken from the picture book, ‘Russia from the Inside’, by Robert Kaiser and Hannah Jopling Kaiser. The photocopies were initially sellotaped on the window of my house in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Photograph of a photocopy of 2 superimposed drawings of Politburo members. Taken from the picture book, ‘Russia from the Inside’, by Robert Kaiser and Hannah Jopling Kaiser. The photocopies were initially sellotaped on the window of my house in Leiden, the Netherlands. Photograph of a photocopy of 3 superimposed drawings of Politburo members. Taken from the picture book, ‘Russia from the Inside’, by Robert Kaiser and Hannah Jopling Kaiser. The photocopies were initially sellotaped on the window of my house in Leiden, the Netherlands.
