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, January 30, 2013

Beautiful Kweilin.

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

Summer in the Likiang.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy (4)

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy, edited by Aleksandre Javakhishvili and Giorgi Gvelesiani.  Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers (no date).  Text is in English.

 Tea-picking machines, Inguri Tea State Farm

Livestock department of the Marx Collective Farm, Makharadze District

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik (2)

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik.  Hardcover book published by SNTL, Prague 1957. All text is in English.

In Czechoslovakia the motor-cycle is the vehicle of the people.  In the photograph: spectators at the cross-country motor-cycle race at SARKA just outside Prague. 

Monday, January 21, 2013

Along the Yellow River (11).

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.

A small pumping station.  There are many such stations along the Yellow River in Kansu Province today.

Another irrigation and power generation project under construction.

One of the siphon projects along the river.

A power station builder at work.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Trips and Meals: Reminiscences of touring the German Democratic Republic and enjoying the culinary specialities of its interhotels by Hans Prang and Kurt Drummer. (7)

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.

Brook trout au bleu, Erlau style

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Along the Yellow River (10).

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.

  
On the threshing ground of the state horse-breeding farm.

Friday, January 11, 2013

Olympic Moscow (12)

Olympic Moscow, compiled by B. Bazunov and S. Popov.  Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1979. All text is in English.

Moscow's chefs can serve up a countless number of tasty dishes of many cuisines to satisfy discriminating clients from any part of the world



Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Czechoslovak Spartakiades (10)

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

The Old Town Square in Prague during the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the victory of the working people which culminated in February 1948

Products of Czechoslovakia’s highly developed industries have achieved an outstanding reputation all over the world

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (10).

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.

 
The Leimbach machine-and-tractor station cultivates the fields of the agricultural co-operatives and those of individual peasants

 
In the fertile Magdeburg Lowlands: Modern farming

The rich harvests of our agricultural co-operatives are brought in with modern machines: potatoe harvester.

Harvesting maize

 Trinwillershagen.  All work is mechanized in this large cow-shed