(R.49.20)
Price: 59.00 euro
Size: 21×11.5cm./8.2×4.5inch.
Weight: 810gr./28.5oz.
Bust of Lenin made of aluminium. On the back of the bust there is the signature of the maker and the year 1975.
In 1960-1980-s Vladimir Sychev (1917-1995) worked on monumental sculpture. For several decades he created over 300 works in bronze, granite and marble. Most notable, in particular, are high reliefs and bas-reliefs at metro stations “Frunzenskaya”, “Narva” and “Ploshchad Vosstaniya”. As well as a monument to SM Kirov at the Elektrosila plant, a bust of Lenin in the Tauride Palace, a sculptural composition and a light curtain In the Tauride Garden. Vladimir Sychev died in 1995, continuing to work until the last days. Unfortunately, in the post-Soviet years, many of his projects remained unrealized. However, the artist’s studio still keeps many sketches, models, busts, and small sculptural forms. Currently, in the creative workshop of his father, fruitfully works his son – sculptor Andrei Vladimirovich Sychev.
Busts
(57.20)
Price: 60.00 euro
Size: 23x11cm./9×4.3inch.
Weight: 544gr./19.1oz.
Bust of Friedrich Engels.
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German philosopher, historian, communist, social scientist, sociologist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of large textile factories in England.
Engels developed what is now known as Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in English cities. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially, allowing him to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx’s death, Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. Additionally, Engels organised Marx’s notes on the Theories of Surplus Value, which were later published as the “fourth volume” of Das Kapital. In 1884, he published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State on the basis of Marx’s ethnographic research.
(R.47.5.30)
Price: 57.00 euro
Size: 13.5×7.5cm./5.3×2.9inch.
Weight: 476gr./16.7oz.
Composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky USSR Buste. Russian metal bust on marble base. On the side and on the back are writings and numbers, probably his name and the artist name and a product number. It is also stamped on the side.
(R.135.20)
Price: 135.00 euro
Size: 20.5×13.5cm./8×5.3inch.
Weight: 3335gr./117.6oz.
Solid Copper/Bronze Lenin Bust. This is not a mass produced bust of Lenin. Massive and heavy. Most probably stood on a pedestal. Has got beautiful patina. Very well made.
(70.20)
(R.70.20)
Price: 84.00 euro
Size: 30.5×25.5cm./12x10inch.
Weight: 1705gr./60.1oz.
Lenin bust of ceramic. Beautiful old vintage sculpture with crackles.
Pet edge has small chip.
(68.20)
(R.68.20)
Price: 82.00 euro
Size: 26x15cm./10.2×5.9inch.
Weight: 2775gr./97.8oz.
Exceptional nice heavy bust of Lenin on a stacked wooden base. The bust is made of bronze.
(69.20)
(R.69.20)
Price: 83.00 euro
Size: 17.5×12.5cm./6.8×4.9inch.
Weight: 325gr./11.4oz.
Lenin Buste made from porcelain by the Herend porcelain factory in Hungary. Beautiful combination between biscuit porcelain, head, and glazed, chest. It is numbered at the bottom and Herend’s name is also visible. In perfect state.
(R.87.5.20)
Price: 105.00 euro
Size: 30.5cm./12inch.
Weight: 2475gr./87oz.
Lenin statue with inscription. Sculptor N. Teplov. Beautiful non-magnetic metal statue of a Lenin. Silk matt gloss, with inscription on the front and on the back the name of the artist and year of publication, 1977.
(R.99.20)
Price: 120.00
Size: 29cm./11.4inch.
Weight: 2476gr./87.3oz.
Lenin with book leaning on column, very big.Made of aluminum alloy.
1970s With inscription, donated 1983. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
(R.54.20)
Price: 65.00 euro
Size: 22x13cm./8.6×5.1inch.
Weight: 1490gr./52oz.
Bust from the Soviet Union, 1980 of Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov. Made of aluminium. On the front there is the signature of the writer and the date 1980. On the back is the signature of the person who made the bust.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) was a Soviet-Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.
Mikhail Sholokhov
(R.80.20)
Price: 96.00 euro
Size: 15x8cm./5.9×3.1inch.
Weight: 342gr./12oz.
Bronze statue of Karl Marx. In very good condition. The inscription on the front says:”Proletarian Of All Nations Unite!”. The real statue stands in Moscow on the revolution Square and is made by Lev Kerbel.
Lev Efimovich Kerbel (1917-2003) was a sculptor of Soviet realist works. Kerbel’s creations included statues of Marx, Lenin, Yuri Gagarin, which were sent by Soviet Government as gifts to socialist and the Third World countries across the world.
In the 1990s following the collapse of the socialist bloc many of his works of art were destroyed. However his enormous Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz, formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt, has been preserved as a cultural monument.
Kerbel was born to a Russian Jewish family in the village of Semyonovka in Russia (currently Ukraine) on the day that the Winter Palace in Petrograd was stormed by the Bolsheviks setting off the October Revolution.
During World War II, Kerbel helped build the defenses for the Battle of Moscow, then served in the Northern Fleet.
After the war, Kerbel’s career took off with a wide range of commissions. In 1958 he sculpted a statue in China that depicted a huge Soviet and an equally large Chinese worker hand in hand. When Soviet-Chinese relations foundered a few years later, the statue was torn down by a mob. While some people dismiss Kerbel’s works as a form of flat Communist propaganda, Kerbel himself said that he was always more interested in art than politics. Many people now view his few remaining statues with nostalgia, particularly in Chemnitz (formerly known as Karl Marx Stadt, where his bust of Karl Marx is referred to as ‘the head’.
One of Kerbel’s last works was the memorial to the crew of the Kursk submarine, inaugurated in Moscow in 2003.
Lev Kerbel with a smaller version of the Karl Marx Statue
Lev Kerbel working on his famous Karl Marx head wich is still in the city of Chemnitz
The Karl Marx statue in Moscow.
(32.5.20)
(22.5.20)
Price: 32.50 euro
Size: 13x9cm./5.1×3.5inch.
Weight: 2087gr./71oz.
Quality bust of Lenin, made in 1978 with signature and date on the bottom. very solid and heavy.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Lenin.
(R.35.20)
Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 16cm./6.2inch.
Weight: 1023gr./35.5oz.
Soviet tank commander. Tank crew bust bronze color solid aluminum.
Made somewhere in the 1960s. Beautiful made and heavy.
(50.20)
(41.20)
Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 17x13cm./6.6×5.1inch.
Weight: 382gr./13.1oz.
Stalin bust made of porcelain. The lower half of the bust is polished and his head is not. Beautiful classic bust of Stalin. Made by the Herend porcelain factory in Hungary.
Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s.
When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his dictatorship.
(67.50)
(52.20)
Price: 67.50 euro
Size: 27×26.5cm./10.6×10.4inch.
Weight: 2560gr./90.3oz.
Lenin bust. Big, heavy and made of metal. With some inscriptions and signature with date, 1969. Solid piece.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Lenin
(175.20)
(132.5.20)
Price: 175.00 euro
Size: 38x19cm./14.9×7.4inch.
Weight: 2712gr./97oz.
Very big and heavy bust of Stalin. Exceptionally well made. With signature. Looks like it is made from chalk or plaster. Due to it’s age, some bits of paint are gone.
Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s.
When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his dictatorship.
(R.1200.20)
Price: 1440.00 euro
Size: 72x44cm./27.8×17.3inch.
Weight: 150kg./330pounds
Very large unique Lenin bust. Carved from stone!
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of the socialist statues were demolished. Few large images remain and many are already in museums. This survived well. Carved from stone and probably stood in a government building for many years. An awesome piece, another one like this you will not see quickly.
(70.20)
Price: 125.00 euro
Size: 33x29cm./12.9×11.4inch.
Weight: 5500gr./194oz.
Big heavy copper bust of Mao Zedong. Inscription/signature on the back. Solid quality piece.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.
(44.20)
(R.44.20)
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 19.5×23.8cm./7.6×9.3inch.
Weight: 1.9kg./4.1lb.
Old Lenin bust. Made from aluminium.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks and they were led by Stalin. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display. It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Work in progress: giant Lenin statue.
(R.45.20)
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 16.5cm./6.4inch.
Weight: 450gr./15.8oz.
Bust of a very young Lenin. It is made of porcelain and from the 50’s/60’s Soviet Russia.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks and they were led by Stalin. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display. It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
(50.20)
(37.20)
Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 20.5x14cm/8.07×5.5inch.
Metal Lenin bust from 1963 with signature of the artist.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks and they were led by Stalin. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display. It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
(40.20)
(30.19)
Price: 40.00 euro
Size: 17x14cm./6.6×5.5inch.
Porcelain Mao bust from China. In very good condition.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.
Mao Zedong
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(30.19)
Price: 45.00 euro
Metal bust of Leonid Brezhnev from the 70’s. Bust is in perfect condition. With signature.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-1982) was the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, he ruled the Soviet Union 1964 until his death in 1982. Ideologically, he was a Marxist-Leninist.
After the October Revolution in 1917 led to the formation of a one party state led by the Communist Party, Brezhnev joined the party’s youth league, Komsomol, in 1923, and became an active party member by 1929. In WWII he joined the Red Army and held increasingly important political posts.
After the war he rose steadily in the top ranks of the party, and became a protege of Joseph Stalin. In 1952 Brezhnev was promoted to the Central Committee and in 1957 to full member of the Politburo. In 1964 he ousted Nikita Khrushchev and took over as First Secretary of the CPSU, the most powerful position in the Kremlin.
Brezhnev with Komsomol Youth
Brezhnev hunting.
Brezhnev at Intermational Womens Day
Brezhnev with Honecker, leader of the DDR.
Below a video of May 1 Parade in Moscow in 1981. A year before Brezhnev died:
(40.19)
Price: 65.00 euro
Size: 23×19.5cm./9.05×7.6inch.
Original Mao Zedong bust from the 70’s. Made from porcelain and in excellent condition. Bought in China and taken out.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.
Typical Mao Zedong propaganda.
(25,19)
Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 13x8cm./5.1×3.1inch.
Weight: 335gr./11.8oz.
Nicely made Lenin bust from metal with a signature. It is made in the 70’s. A genuine piece, not a modern reproduction. A heavy bust.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks and they were led by Stalin. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Lenin with a cat.
Lenin with yet another cat.
(10.19)
(5.19)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9.5×5.5cm./3.7×2.1inch.
Little copper Mao bust from 1976 with rust.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.
Mao Zedong at a parade.
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(45.19)
Price: 45.00
Size: 12.5x5cm./4.9×1.9inch.
Small iron Stalin bust. Made in the 60/70’s.
Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s.
When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his dictatorship.
Josip Stalin.
(30.19)
Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 21x15cm./8.2×5.9inch.
Weight: 361gr./12.7oz.
Absolute beautiful and well made bust of Ho Chi Minh. This bust is rare and bought in the 70’s in Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and then its President from 1945 to 1969. Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist, he served as Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Vietnam. He founded the Democratic Republiek Of Vietnam in 1945.
Any description of Ho Chi Minh’s life before he came to power in Vietnam is open for discussion. He is known to have used at least 50 and perhaps as many as 200 pseudonyms. Both his place and date of birth are subjects of academic debate since neither is known with certainty. At least four existing official biographies vary on names, dates, places and other hard facts while unofficial biographies vary even more widely.
He has got an iconic status for first beating the French in 1954 and for beating the United States and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam war costs was between 600.000-1.6 million deaths on the North Vietnam side while South Vietnam suffered between 700.000 and 1 million deaths including almost 60,000 American lives.
With the outcome of the Vietnam War still in question, Ho Chi Minh died of heart failure at his home in Hanoi 1969; he was 79 years old. As almost all comunist country’s do, his embalmed body is currently on display in a mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi.
After the Vietnam War Saigon was renamed in Ho Chi Minh city in 1976.
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh visiting sailors during his visit to the DDR in 1957.
Ho Chi Minh with members of the East German Young Pioneers near Berlin, 1957.
(300.19)
Price: 600.00
Size: 45x23cm./17.7x9inch.
Weight: 15kilo/33pounds.
Unusually big and heavy bust of Stalin. This is an old bust and made beautiful. No signature could be discovered but you can tell this is made by with craftmanship. It was obtained by the previous owner 25 years ago in the Czech Republic. As the story goes, this bust was buried during the Second World War making this an old bust.
Due to the weight, the rust and the holes this bust has been standing on a pedestal outside for a long time. The rust on this bust is one of the finest patina I ever saw. You will have a very hard time finding another beautiful bust like this.
Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s.
When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his dictatorship.
Stalin.
(90.19)
Price: 125.00 euro.
Size: w20xh17cm./7.8×6.6inch.
Weight: 1222gr./43.1oz.
Beautiful double bust of Karlx Marx and Lenin. This bust is duplicated and reproduced very much (even now) but this is original. It is made in the 60’s and got a signature of the maker, N. Tomsky, on the back.
Nikolai Tomsky (1900-1984) was a much decorated well know sculptor. The sculptor first came to attention with his memorial to Sergey Kirov, a heroic bronze with friezes around the base, for which he won the 1941 Stalin Prize.
Thereafter his career developed in an official direction; he would be eventually tasked to re-design Lenin’s own sarcophagus, produce Stalin’s bust at Stalin’s grave, and produce at least five major statues of Lenin throughout the Soviet Union. His distinctive red-granite Lenin stood in the Leninplatz of East Berlin from 1970 to 1992.
Nikolai Tomsky alongside his creations.
One of Tomsky’s most famous creation. A red granite Lenin on Leninplatz in East Berlin.
Karl Marx and Lenin under water
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Price: 20.00 euro.
Size: 11×10.5cm/4.3×4.1inch.
Weight: 260gr./9.1oz.
Nice black bust of Mao Zedong.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
In 1920-1921 he travelled throughout China and saw the poor conditions of farmers and workers. He became a member of the Communist Party and his political talents was noticed by dutchman Henk Sneevliet. At the end of the 1920’s Mao developed political theory’s wich later would become known as Maoism. His confidant Lin Biao collected quotations of Mao wich wich would become The Red Book. This is the most printed book in history after The Bible.
With The Great Leap forward he wanted to become the greatest steel production nation of the world and ordered every school, factory, farm and even hospitals to have an oven to produce steel.
After that he imposed The Cultural Revolution in 1966 and creating The Red Guard.
In 1976 he died and Deng Xiaoping took control and reformed China in both kapitalism and socialism.
Mao Zedong on a propaganda poster.
(177.19)
Price: 230.00 euro
Size: 36x28cm./14.17×11.02inch.
Beautiful very big porcelain Mao bust. This is an extraordinairy buste. It is big and it is shiny. You will have something almost nobody else got.
A lot of propaganda material showing Mao is made from porcelain. Desktops, busts, tableware, mugs, theepots, statues.. you name it, a lot of it is in porcelain.
Mao is for many people still a iconic figure in China.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
In 1920-1921 he travelled throughout China and saw the poor conditions of farmers and workers. He became a member of the Communist Party and his political talents was noticed by dutchman Henk Sneevliet. At the end of the 1920’s Mao developed political theory’s wich later would become known as Maoism. His confidant Lin Biao collected quotations of Mao wich wich would become The Red Book. This is the most printed book in history after The Bible.
With The Great Leap forward he wanted to become the greatest steel production nation of the world and ordered every school, factory, farm and even hospitals to have an oven to produce steel.
After that he imposed The Cultural Revolution in 1966 and creating The Red Guard.
In 1976 he died and Deng Xiaoping took control and reformed China in both kapitalism and socialism.
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Price: 175.00 euro.
Size: 41x26cm./16.14×10.24inch.
Weight: 2800gr./98.7oz.
This is a very big porcelain bust of Lenin. By far the most busts of Lenin are small but this one is huge.
In the 90’s after the collapse of the Soviet Union a lot of these kind of busts got destroyed. But some survived. Nowadays there is something of a renewed appreciation for busts and statues of Lenin. This is just a extraordinary piece and hard to get.
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Price: 40.00
Size: 26x18cm/10.24×7.09inch.
Weight: 1299gr./45.8oz.
White porcelain (?) bust of Lenin.
After the ending of the Soviet Union in 1991 busts like this got destroyed in great numbers. Along with many statues of Lenin.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Sovjet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Abandoned statues.
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(45.19)
Price: 60.00 euro.
Size: 17×14 cm./6.7×5.5 inch.
Bust Karl Marx.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism.
Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917.
Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.
