Screen Ekran #3 1927

Original vintage constructivist magazine Ekran, issue number 21, August 1926. The ‘working newspaper’. Weekly magazine on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. The cover features a drawing of unloading the steamer in Murmansk by artist M. Hrapkovsky; the back cover features an illustration of Krokodil magazine, a Soviet satirical magazine, founded in 1922. The issue includes a drawing by artist N. Kravchenko; articles about unloading ships with photos of workers; armament of England and the congress of the first ministers of the colonies in London in 1926; statistics of the colonies of Europe: France, Holland, England, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain in Asia, Africa, America and Australia; imprisoned revolutionary workers in capitalist prisons; the first Soviet crematorium in Moscow; Sakhalin and the Japanese oil concession; places at the Chamber Theatre. Published by Glavlit, 17 pages. Good condition, some pages stuck together, tears on the cover, browning.