{"id":1125,"date":"2016-07-11T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:23:02","slug":"industriia-sotsializma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/industriia-sotsializma\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Acquisition: Early Stalin era propaganda set"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Hesburgh Libraries recently acquired a seven-volume illustrated set called Industriia Sotsializma (The Industry of Socialism)<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Designed by the famed El Lissitzky, this monumental work was published on the occasion of the Seventh Congress of Soviets, held in Moscow in February 1935. It represents one of the best examples of the early Stalin propaganda photo book.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lissitzky utilized contemporaneous state-of-the-art typographical and book design techniques to create and to glorify the official image of the new Soviet state by incorporating photomontage, overlays, peek-a-boo images, photo-collages, accordion foldouts, as well as colorful maps and graphs.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One of a series of image sets in Volume 1 comparing the country before and after industrialization. This set of images highlights the transformation of small rural villages into industrial centers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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An opening from Volume 3 showing the growth and progress of factories during the 1930s, highlighting the success of the five-year plan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Lissitzky and his team were highly praised for the work, which underscored the triumph of the first five-year plan and the transformation of the old economy into the new industrial Soviet power led by Joseph Stalin.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Three out of a series openings from Volume 6, using peek-a-boo cutouts to maintain\u00a0images of Stalin and Lenin over many pages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Hesburgh Libraries recently acquired a seven-volume illustrated set called Industriia Sotsializma (The Industry of Socialism).\u00a0Designed by the famed El Lissitzky, this monumental work was published on the occasion of the Seventh Congress of Soviets, held in Moscow in February 1935. It represents one of the best examples of the early Stalin propaganda photo book. Lissitzky … Continue reading Recent Acquisition: Early Stalin era propaganda set<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":1186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12646,75062],"tags":[77938,75749],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-russian-east-european-studies","tag-book","tag-recent-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11696,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/11696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}