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, August 26, 2013

Soviet Siberia.

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. 

 


 

The words painted on the grey rock of Pursei Point announced that here the Bratsk power station would be built.  Soon work was in full swing and the roar of the Angara rapids was drowned by the din of bulldozers and the hum of helicopters.  Then a few years later…

… the giant dam spanned the river.  The Bratsk and (shortly to be commissioned) Krasnoyarsk power stations are the biggest in the world.  But not for long: soon even bigger power stations will be built on the Yenisei and the lower reaches of the Lena, bringing more heat and warmth to this harsh land.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Pyongyang (21).

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

Kitchen utensils

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Warszawa 1960 (12)

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

Dynasty Street

 
Houses in Elekeyjna Street, Kolo estate

Residential blocks on the Kolo estate

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Daugavpils (11).

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

Oktobra svetku svinibas Lenina laukuma

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Bridges in China: Old and new by Mao Yi-sheng (5)

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

 
The highway deck of the Nanking Yangtze River Bridge.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (15).

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.

 
Hydrogenation plant of the VEB Leuna-Werke “Walter Ulbricht”

 
The Buna Chemical Works fulfil an important task in the chemistry production programme of our Republic

Friday, August 2, 2013

Olympic Moscow (15)

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

Harmony of styles and periods

Geometry of the 20th century

Tall modern hotels have become a familiar part of the Moscow skyline

New hotel complexes for 40,000 guests are to opened in the Soviet capital between now and 1980