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Abroad. No 3 (September 1930). Rodchenko, The Statue of Liberty, The Great Depression and Ku Klux Klan.

Abroad. No 3 (September 1930). Rodchenko, The Statue of Liberty, The Great Depression and Ku Klux Klan.

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[Abroad]. Za Rubezhom. No 3 (September 1930). 

Cover [and photomontage] by A. Rodchenko.
Design and selection of illustrations by V. Stepanova.

[Moscow], Gosizdat, 1930.
8vo, 80 pp., ill.

In original pictorial wrappers.
In good condition, tears to spine, last page corners curling just a little. 

Rare issue with a provocative cover. One of 17 000 copies published.

This issue of the magazine 'Abroad', which focuses on the situation and events in western countries and began publication in 1930, centers on the USA, covering topics such as the Great Depression, the Ku Klux Klan, and even one of the earliest Russian publications of a poem by Langston Hughes (his first Russian book appeared in 1932 only).
The cover, features an electric chair and the Statue of Liberty, along with other photomontages created by Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), while his wife, artist Varvara Stepanova (1894–1958), designed the issue.

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