smiling faces sometimes

Monday, March 10, 2014

This is Poland (6)

This is Poland. Softcover book published by Interpress Publishers Warsaw 1972, 216 pages with colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. All text is in English.

Harvesting in state and cooperative farms is largely mechanized

Harvest-time

Harvesting over, tractors move in to plough up the fields

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Moscow: A short guide by Valdimir Chernov (5)

Moscow: A short guide by Valdimir Chernov. Hardcover book with pictorial boards published by Moscow Progress Publishers 1979, 197 pages.

Moscow Art Theatre (new building on Tverskoi Boulevard)

Kalinn Prospekt. Metelitsa Café, a favourite with young Muscovites

Monday, March 3, 2014

Along the Yellow River. Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1975. (This album is made based on pictures and texts which appeared in China Pictorial between June 1973 and May 1974, with some editorial changes.) Text is in English.

Borchoo (2^nd left), one of the first Mongolian steel workers, is vice-chairman of the revolutionary committee of the steel plant of the Paotow Iron and Steel Company. Before liberation he was a herd owner’s slave.

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy (9)

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy, edited by Aleksandre Javakhishvili and Giorgi Gvelesiani. Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers (no date). Text is in English.

A new café in Tbilisi

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (19).

Deutsche Demokratische Republik. Hardcover book published by Sachsenverlag Dresden 1959. All text is in German. There is a booklet with Russian, English, French and Spanish translations.

Riesa Steel Works and Rolling Mills. In these nationally-owned works, too, the workers compete for the title of “Brigade of Socialist Work” under the slogan “Work, learn, and live as a socialist”