Red Field Krasnaya Niva #42 1927

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field, issue number 42, October 1927. Krasnaya Niva was a biweekly magazine, first published by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union in 1922. The cover features a poster "Industrialization loan" by G. Shurigi, and the back cover features a work "At the elevator" by Yuri Pimenov, a Soviet artist, stage designer, graphic artist, teacher, and professor. This issue features artwork Works on digging the Shirak Canal in Armenia by Eugene Lansere, a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva; articles about Soviet-Persian agreements; Electrification of the USSR; Nathan Altman, a Jewish-Ukrainian artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator; a series of articles about the life and works of Pushkin, a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era; a work by Kukryniksy, an art collective of three caricaturists/cartoonists in the USSR with a recognizable style; advertising and others. Published by Glavlit, edited by Anatoly Lunacharsky, a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar, 24 pages. Fair condition, threads on the spine are loose, a cover and pages are loose, an ink stamp on the back cover, minor stain and creasing.