1939
by GOSPLAN
1939. GOSPLAN. SSSR i kapitalisticheskie strany. 152 pp., illustrated throughout. Oblong folio, publisher's cloth. Moscow: Vsesoiuznyi Naucho-Izdtel'ski Institut Izobazitel'noi Statistiki, 1939. A stunning and extremely rare Soviet contribution to the isotype. The illustrations, design and layout reflect the work of someone with an exceptional eye. However, the book was an obvious piece of propaganda and the tendency to overemphasize that aspect of the book cannot but diminish the its overall effect. The substantial number of copies in American institutions would seem to imply that copies were sent abroad as propaganda.
(Inventory #: 172901)