Russia and Eurasia Experts
Senior Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch
Independent Scholar, Washington D.C.
Leah Bendavid-Val is a historian of photography who has worked with Russian photographers for more than two decades. She is the author most recently of Song Without Words: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy (published in October 2007). Her two earlier books about Russian photographers and themes are Propaganda & Dreams (1999); and Changing Reality (1991).Bendavid-Va...