Red Field Krasnaya Niva #48 1929

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field,issue number 48,November 1929. Krasnaya Niva was a biweekly magazine,first published by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union in 1922. The cover features an illustration "Batumi Port" by Aleksandr Shevchenko,a Ukrainian modernist painter,and sculptor. This issue includes an illustration "Cement Factory" by Yuri Pimenov,a famous Soviet painter,graphic artist,theatre artist; articles about ISORAM (Art workshops of working youth) - an association of circles of amateur artists that existed in Leningrad in the 1920s-1930s; poem by Pierre-Jean de Beranger,a prolific French poet and chansonnier; a propaganda flight from Moscow to New York by the civil aircraft,named Strana Sovyetov (Land of the Soviets) in November 1929; Moscow modern architecture; a series of articles about the life and works of Pushkin,a Russian poet,playwright,and novelist of the Romantic era; books reviews,advertising,and others. Published by Izvestiya,published by Anatoly Lunacharsky,a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar,24 pages. Fair condition,rusted staples,the cover and pages are loose,minor tears on the cover and some pages,stain and creasing.