Red Field Krasnaya Niva #42 1929

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field, issue number 42, October 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 Motherhood by Gino Severini, an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. The issue includes articles about Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov, a prominent Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician; an exhibition of contemporary art in Moscow, featuring such artists as Charles Dufresne and Frans Masereel; foreign news; literature reviews; Hujum, a series of policies and actions taken by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in  Central Asia; clocks construction; advertising and others. Published by Izvestiya, published by Anatoly Lunacharsky, a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar, 20 pages. Fair condition, rusted staples, the cover is loose, tears on the spine and some pages, stain and foxing.