1939

[EL LISSITZKY] SAUTIN (IVAN V.) and IVAN P. IVANITSKY, editors. U.S.S.R. An Album Illustrating the State Organization and National Economy of the U.S.S.R., first edition, printed in red and black, photographic illustrations, diagrams and charts printed in colours, publisher's limp red cloth, soiled, oblong folio, [Moscow, 1939] FOOTNOTES Designed by El Lissitky (together with S. Grigorevich and Mikhail V. Nikolaev) for propaganda purposes at the 1939 World Fair held in New York. Includes section on "Economic Construction", women, culture, etc. Loosely inserted is a 4-page addenda entitled "Basic Indices of the Economic and Cultural Growth of the U.S.S.R. according to the Third Five-Year Plan 1938-1942".