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Original issue of magazine "USSR IM BAU" or "USSR IN CONSTRUCTION" Nr. 1 from 1933.
Issue with design made by Nikolai Stepanovich Troshin (1897-1990) and photographs made by Arkady Shaikhet (1898-1959).
Nr. 1 from 1933 was dedicated to soviet automobile industry.
More about magazine "USSR IM BAU" in "Historical context" section below.
Total measurements: approx. 42x30cm
Condition report: magazine shows tears and creasing especially on edges and in corners, shows some yellowing, also shows stains - most likely from humidity.
Considering magazine is nearly 100 years old, nice condition.
Looks to be complete with all pages.
Historical context: USSR in Construction was a journal published in the decade of 1930 to 1941, as well as briefly in 1949, in the Soviet Union. It became an artistic gem and counter-current in the first year of socialist realism.
With elements such as oversized pages and multi-page fold-outs, each issue exists as an elaborate artistic creation.
The journal was published in Russian, French, English, German, and, from 1938, Spanish.
The magazine informed readers abroad of the hyper-construction taking place within the nation, and portrayed the emergence of the Soviet Union as a leading industrial power.
The self-proclaimed purpose of the magazine was to 'reflect in photography the whole scope and variety of the construction work now going on the USSR'.
By focusing on a single theme or initiative in each issue, the contributing artists produced a work which effectively conveyed the heroic efforts of the Soviet people in fulfilling the objectives set forth by Joseph Stalin to transform the technologically deficient country into a highly developed and productive world power.
The journal was published over the course of eleven years and brought together articles by esteemed writers such as Alexander Fadeyev, Isaac Babel, and Sergei Tretyakov, with montages composed from images created by the Soviet Union's most talented photo-journalists: Max Alpert, Arkady Shaikhet, Georgii Zelma, Boris Ignatovich, Semion Fridland, and George Petrusov.
El Lissitzky and Sophie Lissitzky-Kuppers designed the overall layout and cover arrangements for a number of issues, as did Alexander Rodchenko and his wife, Varvara Stepanova.
Apart from Gorky, the official chief editors in the 1930s were Georgy Pyatakov, Valery Mezhlak, Alexander Kosarev. The de facto editor-in-chief of the magazine in the late 1930s was Yevgenia Feigenberg, the wife of Nikolai Yezhov.
The first composition of the editorial board included Mikhail Koltsov, Fedor Konar, Artemy Khalatov and Semyon Uritsky.
Separate issues were published under the editorship of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and other editorial staff.
The main artist was Nikolai Stepanovich Troshin (Wiki).
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