From Merchant Moscow to Socialist Moscow

Pages from the original vintage album Ot Moskvy kupecheskoj k Moskve socialisticheskoj / From Merchant Moscow to Socialist Moscow in Russian with the English translation written by hand. The album was compiled on the basis of L. Kaganovich's speech from the report at the June plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1931 "For the socialist reconstruction of Moscow and the cities of the USSR". Lazar Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and administrator, and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. The album includes quotes from the speech with accompanying illustrations of different views of Moscow, such as the Botanical Garden, the Dynamo Stadium, department stores, Freedom Square, Skobelevskaya square, Strastnaya square, Pushkinskaya square, the Central Park of Culture and Recreation, the reconstruction of Arbtaska square, the Red Square, communal houses, Dubrovka village for workers. The album is created by the artist Varvara Stepanova, photographs by A Rodchenko, B Ignatovich, E Langman. Published by OGIZ Moscow in 1932. Fair condition, 20 pages out of 24, the front and back covers are absent, ink lettering, browning.