(1932-33 Electrification) (with) (1932-33 Construction of Factories and Plants)

• Main Author: Laptev, A.M.
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: GIZ (State Publishing House) 1930
• Subjects: Data Visualization; laptev
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Left Side (1932-33 Electrification) Title: [No specific title provided] Text: In the five-year plan, electricity production will increase almost seven times. In a year, 33 billion kilowatt-hours will be produced. 42 large power plants will be built in the five-year plan. The largest of them is Dneprostroi. This station will work continuously. If the entire population of France were to pull a rope, the Dneprostroi power plant would pull France! Right Side (1932-33 Construction of Factories and Plants) Title: [No specific title provided] Text: According to the five-year plan, our industry will increase fivefold. "We will become a steel country," said Stalin. New plants will give the country cast iron. New factories will give the country textiles. New plants will give the country chemical fertilizers. New machines. And tractors. And locomotives. In the five years, we will spend 16 billion rubles on industry. "A fine copy of this rare complex Constructivist panorama produced by A.M. Laptev, a gifted Soviet avant-garde graphic artist and graduate of VKhUTEMAS-VEKhUTEIN. Created to promote the vast industrial progress of Stalin's Five Year Plan through maps, charts, "Isotypes" and flaps that fold out to form an engaging visual essay on the then current economic state of the USSR. The panorama can be read in two directions: "The reader finds three maps: one for the electrification of the country, the second for the construction of factories, and the last for the collectivization of farms. Through these maps, young readers become familiar with a synchronic view of the Five-Year Plan . Turning the book over and starting from the back cover, the reader is presented with targets for ten aspects of Soviet industry: electricity, factory construction, iron, coal, oil, the chemical industry, bread production, forestry, transportation, and culture. Laptev illustrates the situation before the implementation of the 1927-28 Five-Year Plan with both the text and pictures. The reader is invited to open the flaps on the pages to ...