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Image for A. KOMAROV. Two Postcards on Children's Health. Moscow, 1920s. #2
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Navigating the dangers of life

KOMAROV, Aleksei (artist)

Beregite rebenka!... [with] Ne zabyvaite vo vremia zhary poit rebenka… [Protect the child!... [with] Don't forget to give your child boiled water without sugar during the heatwave!]
'Transpechati" for Gublit, Moskva, [1920s].

A pair of lovely and scarce early Soviet postcards encouraging neglecting parents to take care of their child's health. Great message with great imagery, away from the contemporary avant-garde and constructivism.

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Image for S. IVANOV. Reading propaganda poster. Peterburg, 1920. #2
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Reading as a duty

I[VANOV, Sergei] (artist)

Chtenie – odna iz obiazannostei cheloveka [Reading is One of a Person's Duties]
Lith. A. F. Marks for Gosizdat, Peterburg, [1920].

Fine copy of this uncommon propaganda poster from the Soviet Union's early days and showing a stack of books which could well be antiquarian ones!

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Image for KUPREIANOV. Save the Libraries! Poster in original Russian. Moscow, 1919 #2
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A great message!

KUPREIANOV, Nikolai

Knigi istochnik znaniia. Grazhdane beregite biblioteki [Books are the Source of Knowledge. Citizens, Save the Libraries]
Otdel po Delam Muzeev i Okhrany Pam. Iskusstva i Stariny Narodn. Komis. po Prosvesh., Moskva, 1919.

A great poster we like especially, for its design and its message of course, in particular in a country where libraries have suffered so much, with books destroyed, stolen, badly stamped or stored... Published in the midst of the civil war. One of our favorites!

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Image for ORWELL, STRUVE & KRIGER. Animal Farm, 2nd edition in Russian, Frankfurt, 1967. #2
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Some more equals than others - in Russian

[ORWELL, George] Georg ORVELL

Skotskii khutor [Animal Farm]
[Frankfurt-am-Main], Posev, 1967.

The first and highly symbolic translation into Russian of George Orwell's satirical allegory on Stalinism: the very rare second edition.

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Image for [POSTCARD]. For a Sovereign Ukraine...! New York, 1951. #2
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A topical ephemera

[UKRAINE]

Za suverennu Ukrainu i rozpodil Rosiiskoi imperii! For a Sovereign Ukraine and the Dismembering of the Russian Empire!
G. U. SUMA, New York, 1951.

Great and unusual US-printed postcard for Ukrainian independance from the Soviet Union, shown as an extension of the Russian empire.

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Image for BARSKIY Y. Anti-Alcohol pamphlet in Ukrainian. Kharkiv, 1930. #2
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Half their wages into alcohol

BARSKIY, Y. A

Chi dodae sili alkogol? [Does Alcohol Give Strength?]
Kharkiv, Naukova Dumka, 1930.

Great example of Soviet health propaganda, trying to make Ukrainians more sober. Very rare.

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Image for SUZUKI, Y. Shin Roshia - New Russia. First edition, Tokyo, 1932-33. #2
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The striking achievements of the young USSR seen from Japan

SUZUKI, Yukiyasu (editor)

Shin Roshia [New Russia]
Tokyo, Nisso Bunka Kyokai, Showa 7-8 [i.e. 1932- 1933].

Fine photographic illustrations of Soviet Russia for a Japanese audience. First edition, a complete set.

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Image for MESSNER, E. Worldwide Subversion War. First edition, Argentina 1971. #4
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The new concept of 'hybrid warfare'

MESSNER, Eugenio [Evgenii]

Vsemirnaia miatezhevoina. Guerra revolucionaria mundial [The Worldwide Subversion-War]
Iuzhno-Amer. otdel «Inst. dlia issledov. problem voiny i mira im.i Prof. Gen. N.N. Golovina, Buenos Aires, 1971.

The Cold War and the 1960s analysed by a military theorist. A fine example of the first edition.

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