Ekran Screen #26 1925

Constructivist magazine Ekran / Экран, issue number 26, October 1925. The ‘working newspaper’. Weekly magazine on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. The cover features an illustration of Georgy Chicheri (1872-1936), a Russian Marxist revolutionary and a Soviet politician who served as the first People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government, with foreign ministers of France, England, Germany, and Poland - Aristide Briand, Austen Chamberlain, Gustav Ernst Stresemann, and Aleksander Skrzynski, the back cover shows a colourful advertisement for Cross and Mauser, a 1925 Soviet silent adventure film directed by Vladimir Gardin, and depicts a priest secretly working for foreign intelligence who is forced to confront his dark past and atone for his sins, leading to a tragic betrayal and death. The issue includes articles on Chicherin in Europe, the government debt and credit, an excerpt from Four Months of Mercy, Abd el-Krim Former President of the Republic of the Rif, photo chronicles of the week, country news, an excerpt of Atlantis, and advertising on the back cover. Fair condition, loose cover, paper losses, tears, 16 pages.