Транспорт 1927-28 г. (Transport 1927-28) (with) Культура 1927-28 г. (Culture 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 (Transport) Title: Транспорт 1927-28 г. (Transport 1927-28) Text: A tractor was made at the factory — it needs to be delivered to the warehouse, to the collective farm. Bread grew in the collective farm fields — it needs to be delivered to the city, to the cooperative. Who will deliver it? Transport: railway, steamship, automobile. Most cargo is transported by rail. Before the five-year plan, all railways in our country were 80 thousand kilometers long. Right Side (Culture) Title: Культура 1927-28 г. (Culture 1927-28) Text: Only a literate and cultured person can work well in a factory, on a farm, in a collective farm. But there are still many illiterate people in our country. Before the five-year plan, only 530 out of 1000 people were literate. There were not enough schools, universities, clubs. There were few books: 1 book for each resident. "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 ...