Red Field Krasnaya Niva #50 1929

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field, issue number 50, December 1929. Krasnaya Niva was a biweekly magazine, first published by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union in 1922. The cover features an illustration "Hunter Svan (Upper Svaneti)" by Eugene Lansere, a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva. This issue features articles about The Turkestan–Siberian Railway, a 1,520 mm broad gauge railway that connects Central Asia with Siberia, built in 1927-1930s; the 2nd session of All-Russian Central Executive Committee; foreign news; Igarka, a timber-exporting port located 163 kilometers (101 mi) north of the Arctic Circle; Erich Maria Remarque was a German-born novelist; advertising and others. Published by Izvestiya, published by Anatoly Lunacharsky, a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar, 24 pages. Fair condition, rusted staples, tears on the spine and some pages, stain, minor foxing.