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).

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