![[Item #88038] USSR in Construction. 1932, No.1 (January). SOVIET UNION, M. GORKY, TROSHIN, M. ALPERT, A. Smolyan, cover, design, ikolai.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/88038.jpg?auto=webp&v=1765847290)
USSR in Construction. 1932, No.1 (January)
Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts, 1932. First Edition. Folio (41.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [40]pp; ilus.; text is entirely in English. Light wear to extremities, touch of oxidation to staples, with some very mild creases to spine-fold; contents clean, complete; Near Fine.
A significant issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine, issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and (through various foreign-language editions) to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitsky, Rodchenko and others...were developed in USSR in Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" (Parr-Badger, The Photobook, I:148).
The present issue is entirely devoted to Magnetogorsk, an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains. The interior is laid out by M. Alpert and A. Smolyan, with N. Troshin's cover being one of the most striking in the magazine's history. 88038.
Price: $650.00
