Ekran Screen #39 1928

Original vintage constructivist magazine Ekran,issue number 39,1928. The ‘working newspaper’. S weekly magazine on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. The front cover features a photograph of the Baltic fleet maneuvers by Nikolay Sterzer,a Soviet photographer; the back cover features the maneuvers of the Red Army near Kyiv. The issue features articles about the chemicalization of the USSR; a story War by Henry Poulaille,a French writer and a pioneer of proletarian literature with illustrations by A. Chernomordik; construction of roads; development of zoos; young film actors such as Yuri Zimin,the youngest Soviet actress Fatima Gilyazova,most known for movies Children of the New Day,Dzhoy i Druzhok,Mary Pickford,a Canadian-American film actress and producer, Jackie Coogan,an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films; the struggle for influence in China between Japan and the USA; a story by Pavel Katushkin with illustrations by M. Dobrokovsky; 50th birthday of A. Smirnov,deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and 60th birthday of M. Pokrovsky,a Russian Marxist historian,Bolshevik revolutionary and a public and political figure. 14 pages. Poor condition,the spine and some pages are loose,tears on the spine,browning.