Guthrum
16 May 2015
06:54:40pm | re: RUSSIA 1957 SERIES ON AGRICULTURE.
"40 Years of the Great October Socialist Revolution!" A stamp for each of the SSRs. You have a Latvia CCP block, then a Lithuania one, then Moldavia, Armenia, Belorussia, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Estonia, Kirghizia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, RSFSR, Azerbaijan, Tadzhikistan, and finally (and least legibly) Ukraine. Eight designers worked on these; I actually like the first one best, by A.Zviedris, not a name I am familiar with!
You are right in placing this set shortly after the 20th Party Congress (the one in which Khrushchev moved the party away from Stalinism), but I don't think it's a specifically agricultural set. Check out "20th Communist Party Congress" on Wikipedia for further research on this part of Soviet history. The stamps of the period tell us much.
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Kiwi
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi.
20 May 2015
06:06:44am | re: RUSSIA 1957 SERIES ON AGRICULTURE.
Thanks for such precious information Guthrum. Of course, 15 different stamps= 15 republics! I should have thought about it, stupid me! 12 states before 1940, then 15 after the invasion of the Baltic states by stalin in 1940. It doesn't mean that a series of 15 represents automatically each of those states, of course. But at least one can start his investigation on this. Thanks very much!
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