Screen Ekran #29 1926

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 the illustration of Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated on Red Square in the centre of Moscow, which serves as the resting place of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. The issue includes articles about a working day in the Kremlin with a photograph of the administrative and financial commission of the USSR; Felix Dzerzhinsky's death in July 1926, a Bolshevik revolutionary and official. From 1917 until his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU; photographs of young pioneers in camps; organizing a village in the USSR and abroad; visiting a house of Ilya Repin, a Russian painter, he became one of the most renowned artists in Russia during the 19th century with portraits by artists E. Katsman and I. Brodsky; espionage in American industry. Published by Glavlit, 17 pages. Fair condition, tears on the cover, some pages are loose, browning, pencil marks.