Red Field Krasnaya Niva #12 1928

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field, issue number 12, March 1928. Krasnaya Niva was a biweekly magazine, first published by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union in 1922. The cover features an illustration "The Commune" made specifically for Red Field by Diego Rivera, a prominent Mexican painter; his large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art. This issue includes articles about Russian socialist leaders, such as Arkadi Kremer, Natan Vigdorchik, Boris Eydelman, and others; Paris Commune; the life of Gustave Courbet, a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting; a work "Last Days of the Commune" by Eugene Lansere, a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva; The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx; artworks dedicated to the Red Army; Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director; advertising and others. Published by Izvestiya, edited by Anatoly Lunacharsky, a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar, 24 pages. Fair condition, cover and pages are loose, tears on the spine, an ink stamp on the back cover, minor stain and creasing.