Sputnik: Digest of Soviet Press: 1 January 1978. Paperback magazine published by Novosti Press Agency. All text is in English.
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).
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Saturday, December 26, 2015
The Grand Canal: An Odyssey (5)
The
Grand Canal: An Odyssey. Hardcover book published by Foreign
Languages Press 1987, 197 pages.
Almost
all the famous restaurants in Suzhou are to be found in this street.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Sputnik: Digest of Soviet Press: 1 January 1978.
Sputnik:
Digest of Soviet Press: 1 January 1978. Paperback magazine published
by Novosti Press Agency. All text is in English.
Monday, December 21, 2015
Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture (7).
Taichai:
Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture. Paperback
booklet published by Foreign Languages Press 1972, 29 pages. All
text is in English.
Severe
cold of 22 degrees below zero centigrade cannot dampen the peasants'
determination to terrace the gullies.
Friday, December 18, 2015
Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik. (25)
Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik. Hardcover book published by SNTL, Prague 1957. All text is in English.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Érdekes Kalendárium 1978 (9).
Érdekes
Kalendárium 1978.
Paperback book/magazine published by Kossuth
Könyvkiadó Budapest 1978, 192 pages. All text is in
Hungarian.
Akornyezet vedelmeert
Monday, December 14, 2015
The Panpo Site Museum.
The
Panpo Site Museum. Paperback booklet published 1978, unpaginated
with colour and black and white photographs. Text is in Chinese and
English.
Inside
the exhibition room
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty) (6).
Praha,
Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty). Hardcover book published by
Olympia 1985, with Czech text with various translations at the back
of the book.
The
Federal Assembly
Terrace
houses in Prague 4
Monday, December 7, 2015
Deutsche Demokratische Republik (29).
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 monument of the Truemmerfrau (woman
who helps to remove ruins) in front of the Town Hall
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin (11).
Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander
Berezin. Hardcover book published by Planeta
Publishers Moscow 1975, 207 pages with colour and black and white
photographs. All text is in English.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
The Grand Canal: An Odyssey (4)
The
Grand Canal: An Odyssey. Hardcover book published by Foreign
Languages Press 1987, 197 pages.
A silk
mill in Shengze.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Soviet Siberia (15).
Soviet Siberia by E. Klenov and G.
Paderin. Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket)
published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1970, unpaginated with colour
and black and white photographs.
He may stand at the helm of the atomic
icebreaker Lenin, leading convoys of ships along routes only recently
chartered.
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture (6).
Taichai:
Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture. Paperback
booklet published by Foreign Languages Press 1972, 29 pages. All
text is in English.
Tachai
peasants in the thick of the battle to transform nature.
Party
branch secretary Chen Yung-kuei (left) joins the peasants in damming
up the terraced fields.
Braving
winter cold the young people carry big rocks to dam up the terraced
fields.
Carry on
the revolutionary tradition of hard work, Tachai peasants say: “In
fighting revisionism we must not abandon our shoulder poles but
should use them till the coming of communism.”
Friday, November 13, 2015
Crimea: Architecture Monuments (6).
Crimea:
Architecture Monuments. Hardcover book published in 1991, 255 pages
with colour photographs. Text is in Russian, English and German.
At the
corner of Kirov Prospekt and Sovietskaya Square
The
public centre of Yalta
The
public centre of Yalta
Saturday, November 7, 2015
This is Poland (19)
This is Poland. Softcover book
published by Interpress Publishers Warsaw 1972, 216 pages with colour
and black and white photographs and illustrations. All text is in
English.
…inscriptions read: “To Heroes of
September 1939”, “To Lubin Region Partisans 1939-1945”, “To
Soldiers of the 1st Polish Army 1944-1945”
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik. (24)
Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik.
Hardcover book published by SNTL, Prague 1957. All text is in
English.
Monday, October 26, 2015
Soviet Siberia (14).
Soviet Siberia by E. Klenov and G.
Paderin. Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket)
published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1970, unpaginated with colour
and black and white photographs.
He may be a geologist or a metal
worker. Or he may help build some new town as well-planned and
cheerful as that pearl of the Arctic – Norlisk.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
New China (10)
New China. Hardcover book published by
Foreign Languages Press 1953, unpaginated with black and white
photographs. All text is in English.
The China Medical College in Shenyang
(Mukden), Northeast China. To meet present-day needs, the College
emphasizes preventative medicine and the training of needed
specialists
Two students of China’s largest
agicultural university of Agriculture in Peking. The students of
this well-equiped university are trained in advanced Soviet
agricultural science and study the age-old farming experience of
China’s multi-million peasantry
Peasant girls attending class in a
winter school. In the winter of 1952-53 some 50 million peasants
attended winter schools for combating illiteracy. Peasant education
made such a rapid advance that by the end of 1952 twenty six million
had been transferred to regular schools
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia) (3)
Podomju
Latvija (Soviet Latvia). Hardcover book published by Riga Avots
1985, 215 pages with colour photographs throughout.
Employees
of the VEF have kindergartens, pioneer-camps, the rest-house in
Jurmala for 1000 people annually at their disposal. The enterprise
has a hospital, a preventorium, a science and culture palace, a
complex of sport facilities as well as a large public catering
establishement with specialized pavilions, cafes and snack-bars
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Érdekes Kalendárium 1978 (8).
Érdekes Kalendárium 1978. Paperback
book/magazine published by Kossuth Könyvkiadó Budapest 1978,
192 pages. All text is in Hungarian.
Akornyezet vedelmeert
Monday, October 5, 2015
The Grand Canal: An Odyssey (3)
The
Grand Canal: An Odyssey. Hardcover book published by Foreign
Languages Press 1987, 197 pages.
Huaiyn,
formerly named Qingjiangpu, used to be an important city in northern
Jiangsu.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty) (5).
Praha,
Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty). Hardcover book published by
Olympia 1985, with Czech text with various translations at the back
of the book.
Soviet
Tank Corp Square
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin (10).
Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander
Berezin. Hardcover book published by Planeta
Publishers Moscow 1975, 207 pages with colour and black and white
photographs. All text is in English.
Once upon a time more than 350 studios
and offices were involved in the designing of homes in Moscow and all
the amenity buildings that go with them.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
The Blue Adriatic (2)
The Blue
Adriatic. Hardcover book published by Spektar, Zagreb (no date).
Text is in Croato-Serbian, English, German, Italian and French.
Vrsar,Croatia
Friday, September 18, 2015
This is Poland (18)
This is Poland. Softcover book
published by Interpress Publishers Warsaw 1972, 216 pages with colour
and black and white photographs and illustrations. All text is in
English.
Combine employees’ main job is
supervision and upkeep of automated equipment
Modern technology requires highly
qualified personnel
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