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