Red Field Krasnaya Niva #47 1929

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field, issue number 47, November 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 "From Work" by Konstantin Yuon, a noted Russian painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva. The issue includes articles about construction of a dam on the Dnieper; satirical poems; Nizhny Novgorod; construction of Domodedovo station; works of Pushkin, a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era; foreign news; contemporary fashion; 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.