Photo Album At VSKhV in 1939 (All-Union Agricultural Exhibition), 1940 publication.
Large format, 9" x 11 ½". Leatherette-wrapped thick (5mm-thick boards!) hard cover with embossed decorative artwork and title. Published by GOSKINOIZDAT (State Cinematography Publishers), circulation mere 5,000 copies, a raindrop in a sea by Soviet standards.
The album covers the Leningrad Region and the North-East of the RSFSR. It opens with full-page photo portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Molotov, followed by the text of Molotov's speech at the grand opening of the exhibition on 1 August 1939.
The album contains dozens of contemporary b/w photos of VSKhV pavilions, exhibits,
Large format, 9" x 11 ½". Leatherette-wrapped thick (5mm-thick boards!) hard cover with embossed decorative artwork and title. Published by GOSKINOIZDAT (State Cinematography Publishers), circulation mere 5,000 copies, a raindrop in a sea by Soviet standards.
The album covers the Leningrad Region and the North-East of the RSFSR. It opens with full-page photo portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Molotov, followed by the text of Molotov's speech at the grand opening of the exhibition on 1 August 1939.
The album contains dozens of contemporary b/w photos of VSKhV pavilions, exhibits, and photos illustrating the achievements of Soviet collectivized agriculture in the Leningrad Region and the Soviet North-East. All of them are propagandistic in nature, but some really stand out, e.g., two collective farmers shoveling grain in their Sunday-best suits on p. 38.
In very good to excellent condition. The cover shows mild wear to the corners and the head and foot of the spine (that usually happens after pulling a book out by the head of the spine from a tightly-packed library shelf). Remnants of a library sleeve on the front pastedown and handwritten inventory number in purple ink seem to support this theory. The internal pages are in excellent condition in that there are no rips, creases, scribbles or any significant wear. Mild soiling, mostly fingerprints at the bottom corner as people were turning the pages, is not too intrusive to the eye.
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