[SOVIET UNION. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Sovi - Lot 229

[SOVIET UNION. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union). New York, Soviet Russia Today, [1936]. Large color printed map (54.5 x 83.5 cm) (soiling, tiny cracks at folds). Very rare. Remarkable English-language Soviet political map from the time of the Great Terror, prior to the annexation of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Moldavia, depicting a Union then made up of 11 republics: Armenia (1922), Azerbaijan (1922), Belarus (1922), Georgia (1922), Kazakhstan (1936), Kyrgyzstan (1936), Russia (1922), Tajikistan (1929), Turkmenistan (1924), Ukraine (1922) and Uzbekistan (1924). It appeared in Soviet Russia Today, a pro-communist magazine whose first issue was published in February 1932.