‘Unity in Difference’: The Representation of Life in the Soviet Union through Isotype

Emma Minns is Associate Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at the University of Reading. She has a long-standing interest in the reception of Russian arts and crafts in Great Britain at the turn of the 19th century and the visual representation of Russian writers. She has been investigating the development of pictorial statistics in Soviet Russia as part of the AHRC-funded 'Isotype Revisited Project' (Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading).