COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Grigorovich, Alexander S.
Author:
Sautin, Ivan V.
Author:
Ivanitsky, Ivan P.
Author:
Podgornova, Valentina M.
Author:
Lissitzky, Lazar M.
Date:
1939
Short Title:
Title Page: 1. State organization of the USSR
Publisher:
Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics
Publisher Location:
Moscow
Type:
Title Page
Obj Height cm:
25
Obj Width cm:
35
Note:
Title page with window opening to Stalin & Lenin Embossed portrait.
Full Title:
(Title Page to) 1. State organization of the USSR. (to accompany) USSR. Soiuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics.
List No:
13675.005
Page No:
7
Series No:
5
Engraver or Printer:
Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics
Engraver or Printer:
Lissitsky, Lazar M.
Publication Author:
Grigorovich, Alexander S.
Publication Author:
Sautin, Ivan V.
Publication Author:
Ivanitsky, Ivan P.
Publication Author:
Podgornova, Valentina M.
Publication Author:
Lissitzky, Lazar M.
Pub Date:
1939
Pub Title:
USSR. Soiuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics. USSR : An album illustrating the state organization and national economy of the U.S.S.R. Editors of the album: Ivan V. Sautin ; Ivan P. Ivanitsky. Compilors: Valentina M. Podgornova ; Valentine S. Iuniev ; Georgi N. Serebrebikov. Artists: Alexander S. Grigorovich ; Lazar M. Lisitsky ; Mikhail V. Nikolaev.
Pub Note:
Photographic illustrations and statistical charts and diagrams depicting the state organization, national economy, welfare and culture in the U.S.S.R. El Lissitzky, who was also primary artist, designed this book along with Grigorovich and Nikolaev for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. In 1931 Otto Neurath helped the Soviet authorities establish an institute of pictorial statistics in Moscow. It was named the 'All-Union Institute of Pictorial Statistics of Soviet Construction and Economy' or, more commonly, the Izostat Institute. This book exhibits a groundbreaking style of graphs & illustrations as well as many photographs, in 140 (9) pages including maps and portraits, with some color. Includes an extra leaflet, inserted preceding last page, 13 P. in Russian “Nauchno-izdatel'skiy institut Izobrazitel'noy statistiki SSSR : Izostatisticheskiy albom, Illustriruiushchiy gosudarstvennoe ustroystvo i narodnoe khozyaystvo SSSR = Statistical album illustrating the state structure and national economy of the USSR. Atlas is a collection of basic indices of the economic and cultural growth of the U.S.S.R. In oblong folio, red heavy covers with gilt hammer and sickle in upper left corner of front cover and USSR on spine, in red dust cover, with El Lissitzky – USSR in gilt on spine.
Pub List No:
13675.000
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Pub Height cm:
26
Pub Width cm:
39
Image No:
13675005.jp2
Authors:
Grigorovich, Alexander S.; Sautin, Ivan V. ; Ivanitsky, Ivan P. ; Podgornova, Valentina M.; Lissitzky, Lazar M.
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Title Page: 1. State organization of the USSR
