A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih (4).

A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1974.

A new-type integrated circuits universal digital electronic computer made in Shanghai.

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (6).

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.

Berlin life

Berlin life

In new schools our children learn for socialism

Stalinstadt – Germany’s first socialist town

Olympic Moscow

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

Hradec Kralove (7)

Hradec Kralove, fotografie Zdenek Menec.  Hardcover book published 1982.  Text is in Czech.

The Winds of Wanderlust: Hiking and Tourist Trails in the Soviet Union (3).

The Winds of Wanderlust: Hiking and Tourist Trails in the Soviet Union.  Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers 1978.  All text is in English.

This is a typical sight along the roads of Tiumen, which has been experiencing an “oil boon” since the early 1960’s.  It was only recently that school-texts taught us that the resources of Siberia include “everything except oil”.

Visitors from abroad often remark that “all of Siberia has the appearance of a single vast construction site”.  And indeed high-voltage electric lines have become one of its most typical sights.

Any major construction site in Central Asia, whether it is a new hydraulic station, a large industrial enterprise, or a canal stretching over a hundred kilometers through the desert, attracts a large number of young workers, for they provide excellent possibilities for expressing their talents and professional skills.

Trips and Meals: Reminiscences of touring the German Democratic Republic and enjoying the culinary specialities of its interhotels (5)

Trips and Meals: Reminiscences of touring the German Democratic Republic and enjoying the culinary specialities of its interhotels by Hans Prang and Kurt Drummer.  Hardcover book published by VEB Fachbushverlag Leipzig 1971.

Interhotel Stadt Halle

Saddle of grice, salt-workers’ fashion

Fattened chicken, mushroom-cultivator’s style

Stuffed fillet steaks with deep-fried onions and potato crescents

The wheel of Erfurt

Interhotel Elephant

Pork rolls in the fashion of the Weimar Elephantenkeller with onion salad

Cranberry-flavoured meat with potatoes and bacon

Chinese Martial Arts. (5)

Chinese Martial Arts.  Paperback published by Zhaohua Publishing House, Beijing, 1982.  All text is in English.

Schoolchildren in Guangzhou learning a shadow boxing routine.

A wushu lesson at the Beijing Spare-time Sports School.

Yugoslavia: Past and Present (11)

Yugoslavia: Past and Present, edited by Radmila Matic.  Hardcover book published by Yugoslav Review, Belgrade and David Harvey, London (no date, probably late 1960s or early 1970s). Text is in English.

The Oriolik furniture factory at Oriovac is rapidly increasing export sales of its functional contemporary furniture and fittings for hotels, restaurants, offices and the home.