Red Field Krasnaya Niva #41 1929

Original vintage Soviet Magazine Krasnaya Niva / Red Field, issue number 41, 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 "On the borders of Persia: types of Lankaran" by Eugene Lansere, a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva. This issue features articles about Baltic Fleet; the Soviet regime in the Moscow region; five years after the death of Valery Bryusov, a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement; modern engraving; foreign news; political posters; 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, the cover is loose, tears on the spine and some pages, stain, minor foxing.