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EXHIBITION OF SOVIET POSTERS Panel A.—Industrial, I 1. Shock Brigaders!—To battle for output, quality, and efficiency. 2. “A strong Dictatorship of the Workers—that’s what we need, to scatter the last relics of the dying classes.”—Stalin. 3. Carry out the repair programme and ensure success of Winter Transport. 4. The Five Year Plan 1928 Capitalist “Fantasy! Dream! Utopia!” 1933 Plan fulfilled in 4 years. Panel B.—Industrial, 2 1. Forward, to new heights and victories. 2. Women, into Production! 3. Multiply the enthusiasm of the Shock Brigades by mastery over Science and Technique. Panel C.—Agricultural 1. “Under the Tsar—one with a plough and seven with spoons.” 2. We shall make all the collective farmers prosperous. 3. Look after Bread and Vegetables. 4. We have no Kulaks in the collective. 5. Collective Farmers, guard your fields! 6. Placard Newspaper, No. 23. Collectivization and Harvest Day. 7. March 8th, International Women’s Day. Panel D.—Cultural, I 1. We are growing up under the banner of Lenin and Stalin. 2. Wash your hands—after lavatory, after work, before eating. 3. Know the map, as you know your five fingers. 4. Personal hygiene. 5. Red children. Panel E.—Political 1. Placard newspaper No. 25. Give our Frontier Guards good engines. 2. International political review. 3. “Freedom” of the Capitalist Press. 4. Every Factory, every Workshop—a fortress in our defence. 5. The burden of German Reparations too heavy for Inter- national Capitalism. Panel F.—Cultural, 2 1. Soviet Physical Culture is the pride of our country. 2. Mayakovski, with some of his poster designs. 3. My hands—dirty hands are a source of infection. 4. Look after the scraps. 5. Look after meat and vegetables. 6. Cleanliness in the workers’ restaurants. Panel G.—General 1. Collective Farmers, be on your guard. 2. Kolchak. 3. Denekin. 4. Yudenich. 10 EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ON RUSSIA By the courtesy of the publishers, 243 books, listed below, are available for inspection by Delegates ALLEN & UNWIN Youth in Soviet Russia (Mehnert); Physician’s Tour in Soviet Russia (Purves-Stewart); Six Weeks in Russia, 1919 (Ransome); Leninism, 2 vols. (Stalin); Oil Imperialism (Fischer); Challenge of Bolshevism (Buxton); Russia and the Struggle for Peace (Farb- man); Russia To-day (Eddy). ANGLO-RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE Ottawa Conference and Anglo-Soviet Trade (Bromley & Coates); Burning Question of Russian Oil (Coates); Is Soviet Trade a Menace? (Coates); U.S.S.R. and Disarmament (Coates); The Second 5-Year Plan of Development (Coates); Soviet Foreign Policy (Stalin, Molotov, Litvinov). APPLETON Other Fires (Gorky); Mother (Gorky); Mystery-Bouffe (Maya- kovsky). ARROWSMITH Russia (Box); Black Bread and Samovars (Foss). BENN The Embezzlers (Kataev); Without Cherry Blossom (Romanov); Three Pairs of Silk Stockings (Romanov); New Commandment (Romanov); On the Volga (Romanov); Bonfire (Konovaloff); Great Russian Short Stories (Ed. Stephen Graham). GEOFFREY BLES The Russian Land (Rhys Williams). BORISWOOD Marfa (Smirnova). JONATHAN CAPE The Soviet in World Affairs, 2 Vols. (Fischer); Humanity Up- rooted (Hindus); Red Bread (Hindus); Moscow has a Plan (Ilin); Bystander (Gorky); The Apostate (Lidin); My Russian Memoirs (Pares). CASSELL Decadance (Gorky); The Russian Year (Gordon). CHAPMAN & HALL Moscow Dialogues (Hecker); Russian Sociology (Hecker); Re- ligion and Communism (Hecker); The Communist Answer (Hecker); Are you going to Russia? (Moen). CHATTO & WINDUS Chelyuskin; A Scientist among the Soviets (Julian Huxley). 11