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, November 28, 2012

Daugavpils (5).

Daugavpils. Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Avots, Riga 1988. Text is in Latvian and Russian.

Daugavpils 10. vidusskola

Daugavpils tirdzniecibas un kulinarijas darbinieku skola

Monday, November 26, 2012

Pyongyang (15).

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

Civil airport of Pyongyang

Civil airport of Pyongyang

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Moscow Metro Photoguide (8)

Moscow Metro Photoguide, written and compiled by Valentin Berezin, photos by Alexander Terziyev.  Hardcover published by Planeta Publishers 1986.  Text is in English.


 



Sunday, November 18, 2012

Trips and Meals: Reminiscences of touring the German Democratic Republic and enjoying the culinary specialities of its interhotels by Hans Prang and Kurt Drummer. (6)

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.

Pork Cutlets, baker’s wife’s style

Stuffed crawfish tails

Fillet steak “Lipsia International”

Assorted sea-food salads

Reindeer steak with fruit

Kids Laasan style

Monday, November 12, 2012

Along the Yellow River (9).

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.

Gathering fruit in a new orchard.

Member of a travelling theatrical troupe chats with a herdswoman.

Orchards cover an area of 600 acres.

Crop land reclaimed at the mouth of the Yellow River.  It was a vast marsh before liberation.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Pyongyang (14).

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

Metro escalator

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Moscow Metro Photoguide (7)

Moscow Metro Photoguide, written and compiled by Valentin Berezin, photos by Alexander Terziyev.  Hardcover published by Planeta Publishers 1986.  Text is in English.


The 330-metre Metro trestlework across the Yauza River between the Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad and Sokolniki stations

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Czechoslovak Spartakiades (9)

Czechoslovak Spartakiades by Julius Chvalny.  Hardcover book published by Orbis Press Agency, Prague.  Text is in Russian, English, German, French and Spanish.


Manly strength and precision – that is how the performance of the soldiers of the Czechoslovak Peoples army could be characterized