Planeta Publishers Moscow, hardcover with dustjacket, photographs by Nikolai Rakhmanov.
10 x 14 inches.


Moscow, the capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Russian Federation, is the political, industrial, historical and cultural centre of the first socialist state in the world.
Highly sophisticated machines and precision instruments are manufactured in Moscow. It was in Moscow that the first routes into space were mapped out. Moscow is as famous for its science institutes, educational establishments, theatres and museums as for its literature, visual arts, music and sports. No capital in the world has known construction projects on such a gigantic scale as Moscow. Supporting the programme of accelerating the development of the whole country, advanced by the 27th
Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow city residents have set before themselves large-scale tasks and have proceeded to implement them.
Moscow is a hero-city. It honours the memory of victories over many invaders, from the khans of the Golden Horde to Hitler's fascists.
Humanity looks to Moscow for the fulfilment of its hopes and aspirations for a just and stable peace. In his Political Report to the 27th CPSU Congress the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev said, "Our ideal is a world without weapons and violence, a world in which each people freely chooses its path of development, its way of life. This is an expression of the humanism of Communist ideology, of its moral values. That is why for the future as well the struggle against the nuclear threat, against the arms race, for the preservation and strengthening of universal peace remains
the fundamental direction of the Party's activities in the international arena."
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