USSR in Construction No. 12, 1934
Maker: State Fine Arts Press
Date Made: 1934-12
Country: Soviet Union
Materials: paper; ink; metal
Measurements: 11 3/4 in x 16 3/4 in; 29.845 cm x 42.545 cm
Brown cover page with the title in brown in the middle. This issue talks abous the development of the island Sakhalin - previously a prison-island of the Tsarist regime that was then occupied by the Japanese after the Russo-Japanese War, before finally being retaken in 1925. It compares the prosperity and development of the island between Japanese and Soviet control, highlighting through picture collages and short descriptive paragraphs the vast improvements made to the industries of oil, fishing, coal, timber, and agriculture. It also briefly discusses the indigenous Gilyak (or Nivkh) population, for whom the magazine boasts a tremendous increase in quality of life thanks to Soviet intervention.
Accession Number: 2020.016.011
