[RUSSIA, 1918]. Bound collection of 39 pamphlet prints from 1918 documenting events of the time in Russia].
Contemporary book form. 69.3x57 cm, pp. [39], cloth binding. Inside mounted on blank pages are 39 pamphlet prints and placards in form. from 20.3x11 to 67.2x104 cm. Prints mostly in Russian, a few in English, German, Hungarian and French. Among the leaflets: a resolution of the All-Russian Organization "Unity", a leaflet "On Hunger", "Answers to the questions of the representative of the Czechoslovak corps V. Nejbert" given by L. Trotsky, "Order of the National Commissariat for War Affairs No. 436", "Declaration of Comrade Lenin at the meeting of the Central Committee [...]" of July 15, 1918, "Tsar, pop and kulak", "Non-commissioned officer, the fatherland calls you!" - a proclamation by L. Trotsky, "What do the English want, the French bringing us war?", "The world revolution is coming!", "Two wars, two mobilizations", "Who will harvest the grain?", "The Volga should be free!", a large-format "Letter to the Red Army" of July 30, 1918, "Who is the Red Army", "The struggle for socialism", "Why have you come to Murmansk?" - a proclamation by Lenin and Chicherin (in English) addressed to the Allied soldiers occupying the city, the Constitution of the USSR adopted on June 10, 1918. The most impressive in the collection is the poster "The Price of Blood (on the Fourth Anniversary of the Imperialist War)" with a two-color lithograph by Leonid Pasternak depicting a wounded Red Army man. All prints have undergone expert conservation, have been reinforced with conservation tissue paper underneath, and bear no signs of major conservation interventions (e.g., restored losses, unpatched folds, retouches). Minor rubbing of the covers, good condition. A unique collection of rare ephemeral prints documenting the first period of the history of post-revolutionary Russia.
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