Lenin Jacket Picture: What's the story?
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Was it published? If so, where? When did it start circulating on the internet?
The earliest source I could find is from a story published in roll.sohu.com. It's a story about the lifestyle of the Chinese people in the 1950s and 1960s.
Where was it taken? In a studio with a backdrop, or outdoors? In what city, country?
The story mentions a place named Nanjing, a Chinese city. It doesn't say whether it was taken there or not.
In what year was this photo taken?
According to a journal published by Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, it was taken in the early 1950s.
Reference: Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles - Vol. 39 , No. 4
Who were the people? (fashion models?, employees?, cadres? names, if possible)
The Journal or the story cited above doesn't say anything about who the people were.
What is the context of this photo? (eg, fashion, work photo, uniforms, news article, personal photo)
The story has detailed context of the photo. Furthermore, Georgetown.edu has a detailed report regarding the coat's context. It says:
Lenin Coat was especially popular in China during the 1950’s. It is a variant of open-collared and double-breasted suit. Similar kind of suit was common in Europe and had become a conservative choice during the first half of the 20th century. But it was a new fashion when it firstly entered China during Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
Russians don’t call this kind of coat “Lenin Coat”. The word was termed by Chinese. Because Lenin wore this kind of coat during the October Revolution. If we merely take the image of Lenin Coat as a signifier, Chinese and Russians share a similar first-order system (Allen, 42). But the second-order semiological system (Allen, 43) is significantly different.
In Russia, people did not especially relate this coat to Bolshevik spirit. But Chinese raised the image to show respect to certain ideology. I guess in some historical period, some people wanted to emphasize this layer of meaning and use the word “Lenin” to name the coat, which in turn changed the word’s first-order system.
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