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).

Friday, March 27, 2020

Yugoslavia: An Art-Book

Yugoslavia: An Art-Book, photographs by Otto Siegner. Hardcover book published by Verlag Ludwig Simon, Munchen – Pullach (no date, 1950s?), 239 pages with black and white photographs, text is in English.

Farming is predominant, as demonstrated by the herds of pigs to the right and left of the road ...

in the smaller country towns shown by numerous farm buggies

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia) (23)

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia). Hardcover book published by Riga Avots 1985, 215 pages with colour photographs throughout.

Amalgamation enterprise VEF has greatly contributed to the establishment of safe, speedy and comfortable telephone and telegraph communications among the cities of the Soviet Union. A new automatic electronic telegraph exchange has been designed that will ensure communications between the coastal service and the ocean ships via satellites





Friday, March 20, 2020

Harm into Benefit: Taming the Haiho River

Harm into Benefit: Taming the Haiho River by Ho Chin.  
Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press 1975, 79 pages. All text is in English.


Monday, March 16, 2020

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro (2).

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro. Hardcover book published by MP 1978. Text is in Russian and English.



Thursday, March 12, 2020

Great Leader Chairman Mao will live forever in our hearts (8).

Great Leader Chairman Mao will live forever in our hearts. Paperback booklet published by Joint Publishing Co. (Hongkong Branch) 1976.

Chairman Mao studying a military map in directing the great People's Liberation War in northern Shensi in 1947.

Chairman Mao reading the news of the liberation of Nanking in 1949.

Chairman Mao at the Tenth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in 1962.

Friday, March 6, 2020

Crimea: Architecture Monuments (18).

Crimea: Architecture Monuments. Hardcover book published in 1991, 255 pages with colour photographs. Text is in Russian, English and German.



The memorial wall in honour of the heroic defence of Sevastopol in 1941-1942

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Sputnik 11: Digest of Soviet Press, November 1978 (6).

Sputnik 11: Digest of Soviet Press, November 1978. Paperback magazine/booklet published by Novosti Press Agency 1978. All text is in English.