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).

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun (4).

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.

Chi Chiu-wang (2nd from right), brigade party secretary, makes an estimate of the coming wheat crop, with fellow villagers in Sungchuang, which had miserable harvests before the liberation but now leads the entire commune in grain yields.

Party Secretary Lu Shu-mo (front) of the Chiliying brigade, a delegate to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses of the Chinese Communist Party, goes out to work with young commune members.

Monday, April 28, 2014

This is Poland (7)

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.



Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Moscow: A short guide by Valdimir Chernov (6)

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

Statue of Lenin in the Moscow Kremlin

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Warszawa 1960 (15)

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

House in the Old Town Market Place

Mariensztadt housing estate

Ujazdowski Park

Marzalkowska Residential District, Waryriski Street

East-West Thoroughfare

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Pyongyang (25)

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

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Bridges in China: Old and new by Mao Yi-sheng (7)

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 No.5 Sunshui River Bridge on the Chengtu-Kunming rail line, with a main arch of hinged cantilevers of prestressed concrete.

The Tatu River Bridge on the Chentu-Kunming line, of through steel truss with a 144 metre main span.

The Sungshupo Stone Arch Bridge on the Paochi-Chengtu line.

“A Strip of Sky,” a stone arch bridge on the Chengtu-Kunming line.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik (12)

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