Viet-Nam (26)

Viet-Nam, text by Nikolai Solntsev, photography by Victor Guinsbourg, Albert Lieberman, Evgueni Lomovski. Hardover book published by Editions Paneta Moscou and Editions Van Hoa Hanoi 1986. All text is in French.

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro (3).

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

The Lermontovskaya Station

New China (33)

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

The film”White-Haired Girl” never fails to touch the hearts of the audience. Screened in the countryside, it greatly stimulated the land reform movement.

A scene in Fighting in the North and South, a film which deals with the campaign in East China against the Chinag Kai-shek brigands during the early stage of the People's Liberation War (1946-49)

Yugoslavia: An Art-Book (2)

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.

In Belgrade: The lofty Albanija House at the Terazije Square

Harm into Benefit: Taming the Haiho River (2)

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.

Commune members in the Haiho basin sign up for river control work.

“Peasant expert” Hou Chen-ming (front) exchanges experience with other comrades.

We – Internationalists (2)

We – Internationalists. 24 loose cards in folder, published 1988 with colour photographs and illustrations. All text is Russian. (Book is related to the Soviet Afghan war, December 1979 to February 1989). Loaned from one of my favourite bookshops, Mount of Alex in Castlemaine, Victoria. www.instagram.com/mountofalex/

China Travel: Guangzhou and Foshan (22)

China Travel: Guangzhou and Foshan, compiled by China International Travel Service, Guangzhou Branch and Editorial Department of the Guangdong People's Publishing House. Paperback book published by Guangdong People's Publishing House 1977, 112 pages. All text is in English.

A food market.

“Open door-schooling” - Students learning industrial production in a school run factory.

Xinhui Country has plenty of palm trees. The Xinhui Palm Handicraft Factory.