Boston Rare MapsSpecializing in antique American maps & prints
Unrecorded set of posters extolling the necessity and benefits of America’s strategy of nuclear deterrence and the importance of the B-1 bomber thereto. Given the vast sums and many stakeholders, major military procurement programs are inherently controversial, and the B-1 nuclear-capable bomber was no exception. It was in fact cancelled by President Carter in 1977 […]
A somewhat crude but powerful persuasive map produced at the end of the Second World War to document the extent of the Russian gulag system. The Persuasive Maps web site of P.J. Mode describes the map and provides some helpful context: “The first appearance of a cold war map of Soviet concentration camps. It purports […]
An entertaining 1987 persuasive map offering a liberal caricature of the world view of President Ronald Reagan. The map uses a pictorial style to depict the United States and Soviet Union wildly out of scale with the rest of the world. Reagan in full gunfighter regalia stands astride a hypertrophied California, while a dour Gorbachev, […]
![[Sylwester Mora & Piotr Zwierniak,] MAP OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN SOVIET RUSSIA. [Rome: Wlochy, 1945.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BRM3818-Concentration-Camps-in-Soviet-Russia_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A powerful persuasive map produced at the end of the Second World War and documenting, though likely with some exaggeration, the extent of the Soviet gulag system. The Gulag was created under Vladimir Lenin almost immediately after the Revolution, taking its name from an acronym of the Russian phrase for “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor […]
![Isaac Don Levine, “GULAG”—SLAVERY, INC. THE DOCUMENTED MAP OF FORCED LABOR CAMPS IN SOVIET RUSSIA[.] New Edition (1951)… New York: Free Trade Union Committee of the American Federation of Labor, 1951.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BRM3574-Gulag-1951-copy-150x150.jpg)
A rare and chilling relic of the Cold War, being a “persuasive map” published with covert CIA support and documenting the vast extent of the Soviet Gulag system. So effective that many tens of thousands of copies of this and similar maps were distributed worldwide. The Gulag was created under Vladimir Lenin almost immediately after […]
An amazing propaganda leaflet from Soviet premier Nikita Khruschev’s visit to the United States in 1960. It was during this trip that he famously banged a shoe on his desk in the United Nations General Assembly. The recto of this wonderful little leaflet features virulent anti-Khruschev, anti-Communist language, apparently sincere but of dubious literary merit. […]