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).

Monday, December 30, 2013

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy (8)

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.

Georgian Military Road

Olympic Moscow (18)

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

Moscow, host of the XXII Olympic Games

Friday, December 27, 2013

Pyongyang (23)

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

 
A tankman and a girl tractor driver

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun (2).

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1974.  All text is in English.

Chairman Mao Tsetung during his rural inspection tour in Honan Province in 1958.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Soviet Siberia (3).

Soviet Siberia by E. Klenov and G. Paderin.  Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1970, unpaginated with colour and black and white photographs.

Akademgorodok








Sunday, December 15, 2013

Warszawa 1960 (14)

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

“Gdanski” railway station

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Olympic Moscow (17)

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

The enthusiasm of the competitors in the initial country-wide competitions set the keynote for all the following tournaments of this scale

The enthusiasm of the competitors in the initial country-wide competitions set the keynote for all the following tournaments of this scale

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Pyongyang (22).

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

Labour Heroine Dr. Paek Sol Hui who succeeded in breeding a new variety of plant which is of great importance for the improvement of the people’s living standards

Dr. Kim Sang Ryon, Labour Hero, winner of the Kim Il Sung Prize, who made a distinguished contribution to the breeding of a good strain suited to our climatic and soil conditions.

Monday, December 2, 2013

This is Poland. (4)

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.



Something about Warsaw makes it different from all other cities, a capital unique in the world…

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (17).

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.

The new blocks of flats along Dr-Kulz-Ring have spacious and bright flats and fine, modern shops

Monday, November 25, 2013

Bridges in China: Old and new by Mao Yi-sheng (6)

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

 
A section of the railway in China’s southwest where bridges and culverts alternate.

A section of the railway in China’s southwest where bridges and culverts alternate.

One of the bridges on the Chengtu-Kunming line.

A train speeding across the Yangtze River Bridge at Nanking.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik (9)

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

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Warszawa 1960 (13)

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

Hall of the “Stadion” stop

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Soviet Siberia (2).

 Soviet Siberia by E. Klenov and G. Paderin.  Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1970, unpaginated with colour and black and white photographs.

But first of all he must study, and for all this he’ll have every facility.  Today the grandchildren of reindeer breeders and hunters go to school and crowd university lecture halls to listen to leading philosophers, mathematicians, historians and microbiologists.




Friday, November 1, 2013

Moscow: A short guide by Valdimir Chernov (3)

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

Space Obelisk commemorating Soviet outer space breakthroughs.  In front of it is a statue of Tsiolkovsky

Lenin Prospekt

Friday, October 25, 2013

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (16).

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.

The Institute of Anatomy of Karl Marx University, Leipzig

The Wilhelm Pieck Palace of Culture of the Electro-Chemical Combine at Bitterfeld

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik (8)

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

 
Aircraft are used in the fight against agricultural pests.

Directing of field work in all villages of the district

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy (7)

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 class in biology at No. 1 secondary school, Tbilisi

 
No.1 Kindergarten, Tbilisi

Monday, October 14, 2013

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun.

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1974.  All text is in English.

 Timely spraying of insecticides ensures full cotton harvests.

 
Militiawomen of Liuchuang village pick cotton, a major crop in Chiliying where the per-mu yield is now six times the pre-liberation figure.

Teachers and peasant-students of Chiliying’s agro-technical school discuss a comprehensive method of fighting cotton pests; their studies are closely linked to production needs.

 
These young commune farmers still remember how as toddlers in Chiliying’s kindergarten, they welcomed Chairman Mao during his visit in 1958.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

The Winds of Wanderlust: Hiking and Tourist Trails in the Soviet Union (8).

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

 
There are 6.5 thousand hiking trails in our country.  This refers to what is known as organised tourism, in which persons who enjoy hiking join a group that is registered in a tourist club.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Along the Yellow River (15)

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.

People of Shantung Province widen the river course so that it will be able to lead away more floodwater.  Every year hundreds of thousands of people turn out to harness the Yellow River.

People of Shantung Province widen the river course so that it will be able to lead away more floodwater.  Every year hundreds of thousands of people turn out to harness the Yellow River.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Olympic Moscow (16)

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

The programme of preparations for the Olympic Games of 1980 includes modernization of Moscow’s existing sports structures and the erection of new ones




A Moscow exhibition of designs of Olympic sports facilities demonstrated a high artistic and engineering level