Unidentified photographer
1926-1927
Collectivisation campaign in Zerachvan, Kyzyl Kum desert zone
[Comrade Vassiliev Album]

Gelatin silver print, from glass negative
CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux
Binoche et Giquello, épreuves choisies, 18 november 2010, lot no: 111
 
From an oblong album, 28.3 x 36.5 cm, bound in brown embossed buckram, dedication in Russian and date embossed on cover, with 100 vintage gelatin silver prints from glass negatives, titles in Russian. Various sizes, mainly 12x17 cm.
 
Dedicated album documenting the exact moments of the collectivisation campaign in the Zerachvan, Kyzyl Kum region, now Uzbekistan.
 
"In 1924, the borders of political units in Central Asia were changed along ethnic lines determined by Lenin's Commissar for Nationalities, Joseph Stalin. The Turkestan ASSR, the Bukharan People's Republic, and the Khorezm People's Republic were abolished and their territories were divided into eventually five separate Soviet Socialist Republics, one of which was the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR), created on 27 October 1924. The next year the Uzbek SSR became one of the republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (wikipedia).
 
Album de dédicace déstiné au Camarade Vassiliev: Réforme des terres et des ressources en eaux dans la region de Zeravchan, 1926-27.
 
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