Prozhektor #50 1928

Prozhektor # 50 (168), Soviet illustrated literary and satirical magazine, from 9 December 1928. Prozhektor was published in Moscow as a supplement to the newspaper Pravda in 1923-1935. This issue includes photos from the third session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee 13th session; an article about Russian author, philosopher, and founder of Russian Nihilism Cherneyshevsky on the 100th anniversary of his birth; an article about an arctic observatory; a cartoon from Yuliy Ganf about communists standing trial in Japanese courts; photos of the Congress of Friends of the USSR, an Australian dock-workers strike, American businessmen including Thomas Edison at a ball in the Astor hotel in New York, an equestrian statue of William 3rd in Dublin after it was bombed in 1928. Also includes an interestnig range of adverts. Fair condition, staining, foxing, tears, creasing. An error in the page cutting means some pages are still joined along the top edge.