Russian Art & Literature - Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 82. [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1917].
Vse v chleny obschestva doloy negramotnost [Everybody to Join the Society Away with Illiteracy]. Bolshevik slogan on banner, 1917. 46cm x 16.8cm
Condition: waterstained. Slogans such as these, along with posters and newspapers, were the main and most effecive means of spreading
visual propaganda of the newly established Bolshevik government. The Soviet state, as a political entity, did not yet exist, the slogans were
the first improvised orders of new government policies: to fight illiteracy, to become members of various political and social committees,
which were formed at the time.
[With:] Vipolnim zavet Ilicha druzhnym frontom na borbu s negramotnostiu [Let’s Obey the Laws of Ilich (Lenin) in United Front to Fight Illiteracy].
Bolshevik slogan on banner, 1917. 49cm x 15.4cm
[And:] Cherez likvidaciu negramotnosti ukrepim smychky goroda s derevnei [Through Liquidation of Illiteracy We Shall Strengthen the Ties between
Town and Village]. Bolshevik slogan on banner, 1917. 49cm x 12.3cm
[And:] Prikaz [An Order]. Broadside for a military order, probably February 28, 1917. 40.9cm x 30.5cm Conditon: folded in fourths,
corners a bit skinned from old mount, small chip with slight loss to left margin not affecting text.
A military order, given by the Chairman of the State Duma, M. V. Rodzyanko, to the officers of Petrograd to register with the Military
Commission of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma, to organize the military and navy arsenal for protection of the capital and
restoration of order. (4)
$1,200 - $1,500
Lot 83. SELVINSKII, Ilya Lvovich (1899-1968).
Rekordy [Records]. Moscow: Uzel, 1926. 4to (182 x 150 mm). Printer’s device designed by Vladimir Favorsky. Labeled black wrappers.
Condition: short splits to backstrip extremities and edges.
One of 700 copies of this influential Jewish writer’s first collection of poems. A leader of the Literary Center of the Constructivists from its
inception in 1924, Selvinskii was a versatle and highly experimental poet who introduced Yiddish into his work and was also one of the first
Soviet authors to write about the Holocaust.
$500 - $800
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