[Paris]: Flammarion, [circa 1932]. 188pp; gravure plates. Sewn in plain white wraps, with photo-illustrated dust jacket glued to spine. Toning to leaves; light bump to top corner. Jacket complete but with soiling and closed tears. Very good.
Photobook of strikingly black-and-white images depicting various facets of a Russia still in the giddy early years of its Communist experiment, as selected by Ernst Glaeser and F. C. Weiskopf from over 5,000 documents provided by Moscow's Ogonjok magazine, and Berlin's Unionbild. Images grouped according to theme, and with descriptive captions in German, French, and English. Foreword in French only. This French edition preceded by the German of 1931, Der Staat ohne Arbeitslose.
