[Left: Celebration in Prague in honor of the 9th Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party; top right: 2 pictures which indicate the volume of publications by Lenin and Stalin; bottom right: Pupil in a party school in Bucharest] – Antique Print
![[Left: Celebration in Prague in honor of the 9th Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party; top right: 2 pictures which indicate the volume of publications by Lenin and Stalin; bottom right: Pupil in a party school in Bucharest], 1950 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d3/d395b980b1a4-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Left: Celebration in Prague in honor of the 9th Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party; top right: 2 pictures which indicate the volume of publications by Lenin and Stalin; bottom right: Pupil in a party school in Bucharest], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Left: Celebration in Prague in honor of the 9th Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party; top right: 2 pictures which indicate the volume of publications by Lenin and Stalin; bottom right: Pupil in a party school in Bucharest]
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The left panel shows a celebration in Prague marking the Ninth Congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, while the other three photoprints turn to the party's ideological work. Two smaller pictures at upper right show stacks of books, apparently meant to suggest how much had been published by Lenin and Stalin, and a lower-right image shows a pupil at a party school in Bucharest. Paired displays like this were common in Communist propaganda of the late 1940s and early 1950s, when parties used schools, publishing, and public festivals to build loyalty to Marxist-Leninist doctrine. The caption card is old and unverified, so its dates and labels should be read with that in mind.
| Created / published | 1950 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Composite of 4 photoprints. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Czech.--Misc.--1950; Czech.--Prague--1950; Rum.--Bucharest--1950; Communists...--Rum.--1950; Communists...--Czech.--1950; BI (2); Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,183 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146640 |
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