Industrial and Civil Construction (Promyshlennoe i grazhdanskoe stroitelstvo). 1959. In Russian.

Промышленное и гражданское строительство : учебное пособие для высших партийных школ / Высшая партийная школа при ЦК КПСС, кафедра промышленного производства и строительства ; редактор А. Г. Кокошко ; технический редактор К. М. Наумов ; корректор М. Н. Мартынова.
Москва : Издательство ВПШ и АОН при ЦК КПСС, 1959. — 436 с., ил.
Издательский картонажный переплёт с иллюстрированным бумажным покрытием ярко-синего тона. Обычный формат 60×92/16 (около 145×220 мм). Тираж 15 000 экземпляров.
Состояние хорошее: выраженные потёртости и заломы по углам и краям крышек, утраты бумажного покрытия в нижних углах и по нижнему краю. Корешок сохранён, шитьё прочное. Блок крепкий, страницы чистые.
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Industrial and Civil Construction : a textbook for the Higher Party Schools / Higher Party School of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Department of Industrial Production and Construction ; editor A. G. Kokoshko ; technical editor K. M. Naumov ; corrector M. N. Martynova.
Moscow : Publishing House of the VPSh (Higher Party School) and AON (Academy of Social Sciences) at the Central Committee of the CPSU, 1959. — 436 pp., illustrations.
Publisher's pictorial paper-over-boards binding with a deep-blue ground showing two sepia photographic panels. Standard format 60×92/16 (approximately 145×220 mm). Print run of 15,000 copies.
Condition good: marked rubbing and creasing to corners and edges of the boards, with chipping and small losses of the paper covering at the lower corners and along the lower edge. Text-block firm, leaves clean.

A scarce and curiously revealing late-1950s textbook from one of the most distinctive Soviet imprints: the in-house press of the Higher Party School (Высшая партийная школа) and the Academy of Social Sciences (Академия общественных наук) at the Central Committee of the CPSU — the principal training institutions for the Soviet political elite. Issued in 1959, in the immediate aftermath of Khrushchev's launch of the mass-housing programme (the 1957 Resolution "On the Development of Housing Construction in the USSR") and at the height of the new modernist building boom that would within a few years produce the so-called khrushchyovki across every Soviet city, the volume offered the rising generation of party functionaries the technical, economic and organisational vocabulary they would need to oversee construction at the regional and union-republic level. Its 436 pages cover the structure of the Soviet construction industry; the siting and planning of industrial and civil buildings; materials and prefabrication; the economics of capital construction; the organisation of labour and machinery on the construction site; urban and rural settlement planning; residential architecture; public buildings (schools, hospitals, clubs, cultural facilities); agricultural construction; engineering and sanitary services; and the administration of state and collective-farm building. It is not a manual for engineers but a primer for political officers tasked with directing — or, more often, with assessing the work of — engineers, and as such opens a singular window onto how the late-Khrushchev party conceived the relationship between political authority and technical expertise. Although produced in a relatively respectable print run of 15,000 copies, the closed institutional distribution of VPSh / AON imprints, and the fact that the volume was used hard by its student-cadres and discarded as it became technically and politically dated, have made surviving copies in the original binding uncommon in the trade. Of considerable interest to historians of Soviet urbanism, of the Khrushchev housing programme, and of the apparat as a professional formation.