Communist Propaganda of the 20th Century

Communist Propaganda of the 20th Century

propaganda - 'noun', information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view (Compact Oxford Dictionary).

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Daugavpils (6).

Daugavpils. Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Avots, Riga 1988. Text is in Latvian and Russian.



Daugavpils elekroinstrumentu rupnica

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Bridges in China: Old and new by Mao Yi-sheng (2).

Bridges in China: Old and new by Mao Yi-sheng.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1978.  All text is in English.

Kangka Bridge over the Yalutsangpo River, Tibet.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik.


Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik.  Hardcover book published by SNTL, Prague 1957. All text is in English.






Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Olympic Moscow (11)

Olympic Moscow, compiled by B. Bazunov and S. Popov.  Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1979. All text is in English.

A tour of the Exhibition of Soviet Economic Achievements will give you a clear idea of the Soviet people's economic, scientific and cultural progress.


Saturday, December 15, 2012

Pyongyang (16).

Pyongyang.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Publishing House Pyongyang, DPRK 1980.  Text is in English.


Workers and technicians of the Kim Jong Tae Electric Locomotive Plant produced a large-scale electric locomotive as a gift to the Sixth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih (7).

A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1974.

 
“Red Flag” limousines leaving the plant.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Moscow Metro Photoguide (9)

Moscow Metro Photoguide, written and compiled by Valentin Berezin, photos by Alexander Terziyev.  Hardcover published by Planeta Publishers 1986.  Text is in English.


Friday, December 7, 2012

The Winds of Wanderlust: Hiking and Tourist Trails in the Soviet Union (5).

The Winds of Wanderlust: Hiking and Tourist Trails in the Soviet Union.  Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers 1978.  All text is in English.


A Soviet flag has been place on the mountain’s peak.  Such a symbolic act has a deep meaning.  For mountain climbers are not merely daring individuals. They also represent their country and defend the honour if its flag.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Warszawa 1960 (8)

Warszawa 1960, photographic elaboration by Edmund Kupiecki.  Hardcover book published by Arkady 1960. Text is in Polish and English.

Construction work on a residential block in Tamka Street

Residential block, housing cooperative in Wiejska Street

Construction of a housing estate in Kasprzak Street in the Wola district

Construction work at the Warszawa Steel Mill

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Daugavpils (5).

Daugavpils. Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Avots, Riga 1988. Text is in Latvian and Russian.

Daugavpils 10. vidusskola

Daugavpils tirdzniecibas un kulinarijas darbinieku skola

Monday, November 26, 2012

Pyongyang (15).

Pyongyang.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Publishing House Pyongyang, DPRK 1980.  Text is in English.

Civil airport of Pyongyang

Civil airport of Pyongyang

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Moscow Metro Photoguide (8)

Moscow Metro Photoguide, written and compiled by Valentin Berezin, photos by Alexander Terziyev.  Hardcover published by Planeta Publishers 1986.  Text is in English.


 



Sunday, November 18, 2012

Trips and Meals: Reminiscences of touring the German Democratic Republic and enjoying the culinary specialities of its interhotels by Hans Prang and Kurt Drummer. (6)

Trips and Meals: Reminiscences of touring the German Democratic Republic and enjoying the culinary specialities of its interhotels by Hans Prang and Kurt Drummer.  Hardcover book published by VEB Fachbushverlag Leipzig 1971.

Pork Cutlets, baker’s wife’s style

Stuffed crawfish tails

Fillet steak “Lipsia International”

Assorted sea-food salads

Reindeer steak with fruit

Kids Laasan style

Monday, November 12, 2012

Along the Yellow River (9).

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.

Gathering fruit in a new orchard.

Member of a travelling theatrical troupe chats with a herdswoman.

Orchards cover an area of 600 acres.

Crop land reclaimed at the mouth of the Yellow River.  It was a vast marsh before liberation.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Pyongyang (14).

Pyongyang.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Publishing House Pyongyang, DPRK 1980.  Text is in English.

Metro escalator

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Moscow Metro Photoguide (7)

Moscow Metro Photoguide, written and compiled by Valentin Berezin, photos by Alexander Terziyev.  Hardcover published by Planeta Publishers 1986.  Text is in English.


The 330-metre Metro trestlework across the Yauza River between the Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad and Sokolniki stations

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Czechoslovak Spartakiades (9)

Czechoslovak Spartakiades by Julius Chvalny.  Hardcover book published by Orbis Press Agency, Prague.  Text is in Russian, English, German, French and Spanish.


Manly strength and precision – that is how the performance of the soldiers of the Czechoslovak Peoples army could be characterized



Monday, October 29, 2012

Daugavpils (4).

Daugavpils. Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Avots, Riga 1988. Text is in Latvian and Russian.




Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Winds of Wanderlust: Hiking and Tourist Trails in the Soviet Union (4).

The Winds of Wanderlust: Hiking and Tourist Trails in the Soviet Union.  Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers 1978.  All text is in English.


Only cross-country vehicles that are specially designed for West Siberian roads are able to move along Tiumen’s crevices.  Were they to appear somewhere near Moscow people would stare at them. 

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Bridges in China: Old and new by Mao Yi-sheng.

Bridges in China: Old and new by Mao Yi-sheng.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1978.  All text is in English.

Yukung Bridge built collectively by two people’s communes in Huihsien County, Honan.

The Yellow River Bridge at Chingyuan County, Kansu.

A cable suspension bridge over the Yellow River, constructed by three production brigades of the Shichuan People’s Commune, Kaolan County, Kansu.

The Pearl River Bridge at Kwangchow where rail and highway run side by side.

The Kanchiang River Bridge at Nanchang, Kiangsi, with parallel rail and highway lines.

The prestressed concrete T cantilever Chien-Fu Bridge of rigid structure built over the Sunghua River, Kirin.

Yung-Pao Bridge over the Lantsang River, Yunnan, with its main arch of reinforced concrete ribs.

Hungchi Bridge over the Nuchiang River, Yunnan. Its main arch of reinforced concrete box girder spans 116 metres.

The New Lukou Bridge, a cross-curved arch bridge near Peking.

The box girder Minchiang River Bridge, Yipin, Szechuan.

The truss arch Shangyeh Bridge, Sanmen, Chekiang.