Otchetnyi doklad XVII S'ezdu Partii o rabote TSK VKP(b) 26 ianvaria 1934 g. [Report to XVII Party Congress about the work of Central CFS 26th of January 1934]

Sedel'nikov N. - book design.
One of several editions of this Stalin's report but really unusual illustrated.
XVII Party Congress nicknamed The Congress of the Victors due to the economic successes of The First FiveYear Plan, and also it was named The Congress of the Condemned. 1,996 party members which attended Congress, 1,108 members were arrested later, about two thirds of those executed within next three years.
The chief designer for illustrations in this edition is Isaak Brodsky (1883-1939) - one of the founder of socialist realism movement.
A lot of plates inside, mostly made by Nikolai Kochergin (1897-1974) - master of Soviet realistic political posters.
Book design by Nikolai Sedel'nikov (1905-1994) who was one of principal book and graphic designers in Soviet Russia. In 30s he made sober and former Stalinist editions. He studied in VKhUTEMAS, where he was a pupil of Rodchenko, Lissitzky and Tatlin, worked together with Gustav Klutsis and Solomon Telingater. He was one of the pioneers of new typography in Soviet Russia. He won the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 and the Golden Medal of the World Exhibition in New York in 1939 for the design of book USSR Constitution together with S. Telingater and I. Rerberg.
These kind of books were censored after de-Stalinization, portraits of Stalin and other attributes of cult were cut off.
OCLC locates three copies of this edition in USA, in University of Oregon, in Wesleyan University and in Harvard College Library