Search Results: Russia from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Ekonomicheskoe Izdatel'stvo, 1932
Octavo 24.5x17.5 cm., wrappers, 32pp. Published on the completion of the Dnepro Dam after five years of construction, on May Day of that year, with a photocollage cover encompassing front and rear covers. This is a richly illustrated series of essays discussing the construction and completion of the hydroelectric dam near Zaparizhzhia, Ukraine. Cover and book design by Iurii Slepian. No copies found in worldcat. 800

Octavo 20.5x14 cm., wrappers, 200 pp. Richly illustrated with drawings and photos, this is a study of the Neolithic era. Cover design by Gustav Klutsis. Evgenii Germanovich Lundberg (1883-1965) was a writer, translator and literary critic who found the Skifa publishing house in Berlin. His versatility gave him capacity to write on wide-ranging topics. OCLC finds three holdings, all at UC Berkeley.

Octavo 17.6x13 cm.,, wrappers, 30pp. 5000 copies. A survey of the art movement Mir Iskusstva which flourished from 1898 by art students in St. Petersburg with the intent to upgrade the level of Russian art from the low standards prevailing in the narrow nationalist Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) and introduce a Neo-Romanticism mixed with greater imaginative fairy tales, mystery and fantasy and open to an internationalist scope. This gave rise to a journal by the same name, financed by Bakst, Benois, and especially Diaghilev, leading to the manifold contributions that arose under thrdr auspices. Diaghilev kept expanding the connection with Russian artists and those abroad under the Mir iskusstva banner up through 1927, ending with Stalinist policies that closed off international cooperation. With 9 illustrations by Konstantin Somov, Alexandre Benois, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Leon Bakst, Ivan Bilibin, Alexandre Benois. Strelkov (1896-1939) was an art historian and archeologist who specialized in Central… Read More

First book appearance of Bunin novelOctavo 15.3x11.5 cm., wrappers, 96pp. The first complete appearance of Bunin's renowned work, which first appeared in two installments in the émigré journal Sovremenny zapiski, Paris, in 1924. 7000 copies of the present work were released in the first appearance in book form from Leningrad. Although the author had self-exiled permanently from 1916 this edition under the Soviets came with his blessing. Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) is a giant in Russian literature, the last in the pageant of classical authors from the 19th century forward to bear the title. He was the first Russian writer to receive a Nobel prize, which came in 1933 citing his overall contribution of masterpieces in literature over 50 years. This short novel (Mitya's Love) by itself in its creation of characters spawned many other short works subsequently, all of which figure importantly in the author's oeuvre. It has been widely translated and published in many editions. This first edition, however,… Read More

Octavo 18x12,5 cm, original wrappers, 32pp. Unattributed cover artist. With a foreword by A. Men'shev. No institutional holdings found in North America.

Quarto 30.5x22.5 cm., ½-cloth decorated boards, (96) pp. Edited by A. Babushkin, Foreword by Shapovalov. Illustrated with photomontages and photogravures by G. Sheifer and V. Fomin. A posthumous collection of Lenin's statements on the Red Army. During the Great Purges of the 1930s, Stalin attacked the Red Army. He executed her officers, fearful that they were plotting a coup. Leon Trotsky, who was the founder and commander of the Red Army during the Bolshevik Revoution, had been expelled from the Party in 1927 and forced into exile. He eventually landed in Mexico in 1937 and was assassinated there in 1940. The current work is Soviet propaganda, offered as revisionist history to conform to Stalin's attitude toward the venerated Russian military. OCLC locates three institutional holdings in North America (Cornell, Columbia, NYPL).
This copy very good+ with light cover soiling.

Octavo 20x14 cm., original wrappers, 96pp. A critical assessment of Il'ia Erenburg (1891-1967), who enjoyed singular independence from party dictates as he roamed throughout Europe reporting on art, literature, and capitalist society. Unattributed cover design. This copy mostly uncut. OCLC locates two holdings in North America (NYPL, Stanford). Fine

Octavo 18.5x12.5 cm., wrappers, 136pp. 5000 copies. Unattributed constructivist cover design (The University of My Generation) Author David Markovich Khanin (1903-1937) was Soviet writer and critic and served on the board of Molodaia Gvardiia. At one point he headed the Department of Children and Youth Literature fo the RSFSR Publishing House. Research indicates he was known for his work on sexuality in the Revolution and its aftermath, and his alignment with Trotsky on many issues. As a result of his revelations of sexual mores and the Trotskyist leanings, he became a "nonperson" with his personal history erased from Soviet chronicles, and was shot in 1937 after being denounced and all of his publications were removed from bookstores and libraries. Two of his works are located by OCLC in North America, both of them only in microfiche; no other institutional holdings found worldwide. Tracing formation of Soviet power after the civil war through the eyes of a young Bolshevik. Here he mentions… Read More

Octavo 18x12.5 cm., original wrappers, 219 (5) pp. Constructivist cover design by E. Khiter. Sholem-Aleikhem was the pen name for Solomon Naumovich Rainbovich (1959-1916), Prolific Yiddish author and playwright. This work was translated into Russian by Ia. Slonim and M. Shabadal. No North Ameriican holdings found in worldcat.Near fine.