Ekran Screen #48 1926

Original vintage Soviet constructivist magazine Ekran, issue number 48, 1926. The ‘working newspaper’. Weekly magazine on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. The front and back cover feature drawings of the factory workers. The issue includes articles about the electrification of the Soviet Union and the construction of large power plants; the Leningrad poster exhibition; international events such as the funeral of Krasin, a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary politician and a Soviet diplomat in London; the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist; the opening of the congress of the Union of Red Women and Girls in Berlin; the international chess tournament; the construction of The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station; the development of the post office work; baking factories and others, accompanied by drawings and photographs by M Alpert. Published by Glavlit, 16 pages. Fair condition, some pages are loose, tears, pen marks, browning.