Red Field Krasnaya Niva #51 1929

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field, issue number 51, December 1929. Krasnaya Niva was a biweekly magazine, first published by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union in 1922. The cover features the artwork "The fish-seller" by Pieter Pietersz the Elder, a Dutch Renaissance painter from The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. This issue includes articles about the year 1905 in Moscow; construction in Tula; foreign news; the 2nd session of All-Russian Central Executive Committee; life in Svaneti, Georgia; a series of articles about the life and works of Pushkin, a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era; ROSTA Posters, a propagandistic medium used in the Soviet Union to communicate important messages and instill specific beliefs and ideology within the minds of the masses; sound films; 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, rusted staples, tears on the cover and some pages, stain, foxing and creasing.