Red Field Krasnaya Niva #49 1929

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field, issue number 49, 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 "the Shift is Coming" ("Hammer and Sickle Factory") by N. Razhin, a Soviet painter, battle painter; author of genre paintings, and landscapes. This issue includes a story by Veresaev, a Russian and Soviet writer and translator; articles about textile production; foreign news; ten years of work of YCI (Young Communist International), the parallel international youth organization affiliated with the Communist International; about the life and works of Pushkin, a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era; contemporary graphics; book reviews; 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, the cover is loose, tears on the cover and some pages, stain, minor foxing and creasing.