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).

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun (6).

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.

Peasant expert Li An-jen (left) and another commune member study insect pests in a cotton field. The commune’s research and technical services (including an effective pest-detection network) has spread scientific farming with fine results.

Workers of the commune’s farm machinery plant overhaul an insecticide duster for a brigade.

Lu Hsueh-jung (centre), one of the first graduates of the commune’s agro-technical school and now a visiting instructor, counsels her students after class.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Maklas Foto (2)

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

Bonifacijs Tiknuss. Atom for Peaceful Purposes

Monday, August 18, 2014

Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin (3).

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

 (TU-144)

(TU-144)

Friday, August 15, 2014

Along the Yellow River (19)

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.

In the Chengchow No.3 State Cotton Mill.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Warszawa 1960 (16)

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

“House Under the Eagles”, on the corner of Jasna and Hibner Streets

Central Department Store in Jerozolimskie Avenue

Part of the Bielany housing estate

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Beautiful Kweilin (8).

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

A new highway hairpins through hills at Yangti by the Likiang.

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (21).

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.

Berliners demonstrating on May Day

Erfurt: At the Second Congress of the German working class youth in the Thueringenhalle in Erfurt more than two thousand young workers from the German Democratic Republic and West Germany raised their voices against West German militarism and for the conclusion of a peace treaty