Socialist Industry Industrija Socializma

Original vintage Soviet Constructivist album Socialist Industry Industrija Socializma. The album consists of 7 separate books in a folder and 2 separate sheets, the 6th book is absent. All issues are enclosed in a publisher's folder with plastic flaps and an embossed cover and spine. The author of the design is El Lissitzky, a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. Managing editor of the album is B.M. Tal. The literary part is by A.M. Litvak. Photomontages, drawings of bas-reliefs, and diagrams are by V.F. Shtranich. Features photographs by M. Alpert, G. Petrusov, M. Prekhner, A. Shaihet, and others. Includes books: 1. The new face of the USSR, 2. The Bolsheviks awakened the natural resources of the country, 3. Mechanical engineering is the key to reconstruction, 4. Forward and higher, 5. A peasant - on a tractor, the USSR - on a car, 6. (absent) These are living people, this is us, 7. Heavy industry of the USSR (maps). The complex printing design of the Stalin-era photo album: a large number of spreads, cuttings in sheets, stickers, and photomontages, and a combination of different materials and formats. Published by IzoGiz, 400 pages. Fair condition, 6th book is absent, the cover and some pages are loose, tears, creasing, stain, browning.