(1932-33 Bread) (with) (1932-33 Forests)

• 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 Bread) Title: [No specific title provided] Text: By the end of the five-year plan, there will be 800 thousand tractors. Tractor columns will plow millions of hectares of virgin land. Machines will liberate the land! Peasant farms will merge into collectives. Large state farms and collective farms will increase the productivity of all fields. The country will receive 127 million tons of bread. This will be the harvest of the five-year plan. Right Side (1932-33 Forests) Title: [No specific title provided] Text: In five years, forestry will double its production. Harvesting will increase to 280 million cubic meters. Logging teams will be sent to the forests with axes and saws. Timber will be floated down rivers to processing plants. Thousands of wagons of logs and boards will be received by the USSR. Large consignments of timber will be sent to Soviet construction sites and abroad in exchange for machines, steel, and tractors. "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 ...