Хлеб 1927-28 г. (Bread 1927-28) (with) Лес 1927-28 г. (Forests 1927-28)

• 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 (Bread) Title: Хлеб 1927-28 г. (Bread 1927-28) Text: State farms and collective farms will put agriculture on a strong footing. Tractors and fertilizers will increase yields, expand crops. But a lot of land lies fallow, growing only weeds. Before the five-year plan, we had only 30 thousand tractors, and there were still few collective farms in the villages. We harvested 75 million tons of bread per year. Right Side (Forests) Title: Лес 1927-28 г. (Forests 1927-28) Text: Thousands of kilometers of forests stretch across the USSR. A quarter of all the forests in the world grow in our country. Forestry helps our construction industry. Wood is needed for building and for firewood. Paper is made from wood. Many things are made from wood—just look around. Before the five-year plan, we harvested 140 million cubic meters of wood per year. "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 unfold the dramatic changes caused by implementation of the ...