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Photomontage: USSR in Construction
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1.Alexander Rodchenko
1933
Magazine cover for "USSR in Construction" Issue #12, 1933 [White Sea Canal Issue]

Magazine cover
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
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2.Alexander Rodchenko
1933
Inside layout for "USSR in Construction" Issue #12, 1933 [White Sea Canal Issue]

Magazine layout
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
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3.Alexander Rodchenko
1933
Inside layout for "USSR in Construction" Issue #12, 1933 [White Sea Canal Issue]

Magazine layout
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
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4.Alexander Rodchenko
1935
Magazine cover for "SSSR na Strojke" (USSR in Construction) Issue #12, 1935 [Parachute Issue]

Magazine cover
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
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5.Alexander Rodchenko
1935
Inside layout for "SSSR na Strojke" (USSR in Construction) Issue #12, 1935 [Parachute Issue]

Magazine layout
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
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6.Alexander Rodchenko
1935
Inside layout for "SSSR na Strojke" (USSR in Construction) Issue #12, 1935 [Parachute Issue]

Magazine layout
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
LL/6538
7.Alexander Rodchenko
1935
Inside layout for "SSSR na Strojke" (USSR in Construction) Issue #12, 1935 [Parachute Issue]

Magazine layout
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
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8.El Lissitzky
1934 (ca)
Photomontage for "USSR in Construction"

Photomontage
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
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9.Unidentified photographer
1934 (ca)
Max Alpert and Georgii Petrusov at the Offices of "USSR in Construction"

Gelatin silver print
Howard Schickler Fine Art (CLOSED - 2006)
Image courtesy of Howard Schickler Fine Art LLC. (www.schicklerart.com)
 
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10.El Lissitzky
1935, August
Magazine cover by El Lissitzky "URSS en Construction, No. 8." ([Moscow]: Oghis-Isoghis, Ao¹t 1935)

Magazine cover
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, "Important Photograms & Photobooks", Dec 9, 2010, #2233, Lot 313)
 
La Dix-HuitÞme Année de la Révolution. Illustrated with bold reproductions of nationalistic photographs, employing photomontage, graphic overlay and striking color. Folio, printed pictorial stapled wrappers. Parr/Badger I 148. first french edition.
 
Aimed at an international audience, USSR in Construction employed the best designers and photographers, including Max Alpert, Georgi Zeima, Georgi Shaikhet, El Lissitzky, Sophie Kuppers and Alexander Rodchenko. The prototype for many propagandist publications to come, this publication employed, by Stalin's decree, photography as a purveyor of truth, and as a means of disseminating the Soviet state narrative.
 
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11.1937, September-December
USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution

Magazine cover
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
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12.1937, September-December
USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution

Magazine page
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
p. 22
 
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13.1937, September-December
USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution

Magazine page
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
p. 113
 
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14.1937, September-December
USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution

Magazine page
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
p. 114
 
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15.1937, September-December
USSR Under Construction, 1937, Issues 9-12, September-December (combined) - The Stalin Constitution

Magazine page
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
pp. 113-114
 
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16.1939, January
USSR Under Construction, 1939, Issue 1, January - Soviet Cossacks

Magazine cover
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
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17.1938, April
USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 4, April - Election of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Magazine cover
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
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18.1938, April
USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 4, April - Election of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Magazine page
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
p. 41
 
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19.1938, February
USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 2, February - Moscow-Volga Canal

Magazine cover
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
This issue shed a spotlight on the Moscow-Volga Canal, a canal that connects the Moskva River with the main transportation artery of European Russia, the Volga River. The issue presents a photojournalistic tour, accompanied by elaborate desciptions, of the Canal. Only passing mentions are made of the Gulag prisoners who were forced to construct the canal over the period of 1932 to 1937. 40 pages.
 
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20.1938, February
USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 2, February - Moscow-Volga Canal

Magazine page
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
p. 34
 
This issue shed a spotlight on the Moscow-Volga Canal, a canal that connects the Moskva River with the main transportation artery of European Russia, the Volga River. The issue presents a photojournalistic tour, accompanied by elaborate desciptions, of the Canal. Only passing mentions are made of the Gulag prisoners who were forced to construct the canal over the period of 1932 to 1937. 40 pages.
 
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21.1938, July
USSR Under Construction, 1938, Issue 7, July - Soviet Railways

Magazine page
University of Saskatchewan Library, Special Collections
Call Number: DK266.A2U5
 
pp. 28-29
 
The issue highlights Soviet railways, focusing not only upon the founders, but the workers and passengers as well. 48 pages.
 
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