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).

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty).

Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty). Hardcover book published by Olympia 1985, with Czech text with various translations at the back of the book.

 The television building

The Panorama Hotel

Friday, December 26, 2014

Along the Yellow River (20)

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.

Huayuankou, a town to the north of Chengchow. Here in 1938, Kuomintang troops blew up the Yellow River dyke on orders from Chiang Kai-shek, causing serious flooding. Now it takes on a completely new look.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Érdekes Kalendárium 1978 (4).

Érdekes Kalendárium 1978. Paperback book/magazine published by Kossuth Könyvkiadó Budapest 1978, 192 pages. All text is in Hungarian.


Saturday, December 20, 2014

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (23).

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 products of our nationally-owned industries are exported to all countries of the world: Model of the first German jet airliner at the 5th International Fair in Damascus.

Printing machinery at the International Graphic Exhibition in Lausanne.

Germany’s first nuclear reactor at Rosendorf near Dresden

VEB Jenapharm: Filling penicillin phiols.

The VEB Carl Zeiss Works are the biggest optical works in the world. The reflector for a two-metre-telescope is grinded

Operating the rotary printing machine

Markkleeberg: The Agricultural Exhibition offers many suggestions to all agricultural co-operatives and machine-and-tractor stations

Monday, December 15, 2014

Olympic Moscow (24)

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

Moscow day by day

Thursday, December 11, 2014

New China (4)

New China. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1953, unpaginated with black and white photographs. All text is in English.

Student campers from Peking Teachers' College sing songs about their happy, new life

Young people go out to collect biological specimens, combining scientific pursuits with recreation

An outing for a group of boys and girls on a hill overlooking the beautiful West Lake in Hangchow

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik. (18)

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

In the name of Life and Joy and Beauty 
Stanislav K. Neumann

Friday, December 5, 2014

This is Poland (12)

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.

Control centre of the Polish-built Paras power plant, India

The Plant is fully automated

Central control room

The complicated production process can only be followed on the control board

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Red Detachment of Women – A Modern Revolutionary Ballet: Revised collectively by the China Ballet Troupe (May 1970 script).

Red Detachment of Women – A Modern Revolutionary Ballet: Revised collectively by the China Ballet Troupe (May 1970 script). Hardcover book published by the Foreign Lanuages Press Peking 1972, 169 pages with black and white and colour photographs. Text is in English.

The tyrant of the South Despotic landlord, commander of counter-revolutionary “civil guards”

Lao Szu The Tyrant's bailiff, head of the “civil guards”

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Érdekes Kalendárium 1978 (3).

Érdekes Kalendárium 1978. Paperback book/magazine published by Kossuth Könyvkiadó Budapest 1978, 192 pages. All text is in Hungarian.




Saturday, November 22, 2014

Soviet Siberia (9).

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.

Siberia today is a scientific and cultural centre of international importance. Numerous foreign delegations come, and international youth meetings, scientific and cultural conferences have become a firm tradition.




Thursday, November 20, 2014

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture (3).

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture. Paperback booklet published by Foreign Languages Press 1972, 29 pages. All text is in English.

In ten years of hard battle, the peasants put in 80,000 workdays and finally succeeded in turning the barren hill-slopes into terraced fields.

A walking-tractor ploughing the land. Tachai is well on the way to farm mechanization and electrification.

Fertilizer being hauled uphill by electrically operated cables.

Tachai has reaped abundant harvest for ten years running. Commune members are piling up the maze.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Olympic Moscow (23)

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



Saturday, November 8, 2014

Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR: Unter den Linden (The avenue Unter den Linden) (5)

Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR: Unter den Linden (The avenue Unter den Linden). Paperback booklet published by Berlin-Information 1980, 40 pages.

“Kleines Café” Unter den Linden

Botschaft der Volksrepublik Polen


Thursday, November 6, 2014

New China (3)

New China. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1953, unpaginated with black and white photographs. All text is in English.

Vast deserts take up much of China’s Northwest. Now the challenge “Transform the deserts into oases” is beginning to fire the imagination of the youth. The sons and daughters of new China, who are already curbing the great rivers are determined to conquer the deserts too.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik. (17)

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




Thursday, October 30, 2014

Maklas Foto (3)

Maklas Foto. Hardcover book published by Izdevnieciba “Liesma” Riga 1971, with black and white photographs throughout. Text is in Latvian, Russian, English and German.

Jakovs Tihonovs. Portrait of Surgeon V. Kalnberzs

Valentins Kronbergs. Youth

Zanis Legzdins. Atom Physicist

Monday, October 27, 2014

Beautiful Kweilin (9).

Beautiful Kweilin. Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1978. All text is in English.

Lung Yin Yen (Dragon Refuge Crag) with its numerous carvings is also called “Tablet Forest.” Those on the ceilings, known as “celectial carvings,” involved gigantic effort. There are 2,000 cliff sculptures and carvings in Kweilin, all of inestimable value to research into China’s ancient history.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR: Unter den Linden (The avenue Unter den Linden) (4)

Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR: Unter den Linden (The avenue Unter den Linden). Paperback booklet published by Berlin-Information 1980, 40 pages.

4. Januar 1919: Karl Liebnecht hält seine letzte öffentlich Anspache Unter den Linden, wenige Tage vor seiner Ermordung durch die Reaktion.


Monday, October 20, 2014

Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin (4).

Hardcover book published by Planeta Publishers Moscow 1975, 207 pages with colour and black and white photographs. All text is in English.

In the magnificent modern Palace of Congresses the 22nd, 23rd and 24th Congresses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were held.



Moscow’s landmarks.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

This is Poland (11)

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.



Monday, October 13, 2014

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture (2).

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture. Paperback booklet published by Foreign Languages Press 1972, 29 pages. All text is in English.


The old Tachai was a rocky hilly area with poor soil and unruly waters. After agricultural co-operation was initiated in 1953, the Tachai Party branch determined to lead the peasants in remaking nature, for which purpose a ten-year plan was worked out in accordance with the peasants opinions.

The Party branch makes a point of educating the peasants in Mao Tsetung Thought. Chen Yung-kuei and the commune members discussing at the fields what they gain from the study of Chairman Mao's philosophic concepts.