Ekran Screen #24 1928

Constructivist magazine Ekran, issue number 24, June 1928. The ‘working newspaper’. Weekly magazine on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. The front cover features an article about The Shakhty Trial, the first important Soviet show trial since the case of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1922. Fifty-three engineers and managers from the North Caucasus town of Shakhty were arrested in 1928 after being accused of conspiring to sabotage the Soviet economy with the former owners of the coal mines. The trial was conducted on May 18, 1928 in the House of Trade Unions, Moscow. The issue includes articles about Chaliapin's performances in Germany, Chaliapin was a Russian opera singer; Maxim Gorky's visit to the USSR; the Caspian Fleet; a trip to the Caucasus Mountains by car; communists in Germany; the British Red Army; gypsy tales. 14 pages. Good condition, minor tears, browning.