{"title":"The Great Patriotic War (1941–1945)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection preserves the raw, documentary evidence of the years 1941–1945, capturing the wartime experience through the printed word. The archive encompasses rare frontline newspapers, propaganda leaflets, and military manuals alongside patriotic poetry and scientific works published even under siege conditions. These publications, often printed on fragile wartime paper, serve as a testament to the cultural and intellectual resilience of a society at war. From children’s books on heroism to technical studies supporting the front, this selection offers a profound look at the narratives of the Great Patriotic War as they were being written on the battlefield and the home front.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1st-ed-art-of-the-camera-operator-1945-головня-свет-в-искусстве-оператора-кино","title":"A.D. Golovnya. Light in the Art of the Camera Operator (Svet v iskusstve operatora), 1945. 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Rather than focusing on equipment specifications, this 1945 edition explores the philosophical and practical foundations of cinematic lighting as the cornerstone of expressive filmmaking. Golovnya argues that masterful illumination transforms raw subject matter into compelling artistic imagery. The text systematically addresses chiaroscuro composition, intimate close-up techniques, actor portrayal through light, environmental lighting strategies, compositional framing principles, and advanced lighting methodologies. 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The Land of P.F.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePopular science essay on electrical engineering\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1st edition\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMoscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1944.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e111 p., 1 p., ill. 16.5×12 cm.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn the publisher's illustrated cover.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eGeorgy Ilyich Babat (1911–1960) was a pioneering Soviet electrical engineer whose prolific career yielded over one hundred patents and groundbreaking scientific contributions. Recognized as a foundational figure in telecommunications history, Babat's innovations were instrumental in shaping the development of mobile phone technology. 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The Oath: The Story of One Detachment (Klyatva: Istoriya odnogo otryada).\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow: Goslitizdat, 1941.\u003cbr\u003e372 pages; small format.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA first edition of Gennady Fish's novel \"The Oath,\" published by the State Literary Publishing House (Goslitizdat) in Moscow in 1941. The book, released at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, is a historical adventure novel likely set during the Civil War era, reflecting the pre-war and early wartime Soviet literary focus on revolutionary heroism and collective struggle. 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Кельина.\u003cbr\u003eМосква: ОГИЗ, 1944.\u003cbr\u003e336 стр.; уменьшенный формат.\u003cbr\u003eМягкий переплет.\u003cbr\u003eРедкость.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eLorca, Federico García.\u003cbr\u003eIzbrannoe [Selected Works].\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition in Russian \/ preface by F. V. Kelin.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow: OGIZ, 1944.\u003cbr\u003e336 pp.; small format.\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover.\u003cbr\u003eRare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first Russian-language collection of works by the great Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, published in Moscow in 1944 during the final years of World War II. The publication of this volume, featuring a preface by F. V. Kelin, was a significant cultural event, introducing the Soviet reader to Lorca's poignant poetry and drama. The modest softcover format and small size are typical of wartime publications. Its contents span Lorca's key creative periods, from early poems to his mature masterpieces like \"Gypsy Ballads\" and \"Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías,\" making it a foundational text for understanding his reception in the Russian-speaking world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43962922467370,"sku":"EB-306384000814","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/57_e18d4486-42bb-43ee-8365-af1777e0a699.jpg?v=1768158635"},{"product_id":"1st-ed-lermontov-demon-yerevan-list-1941-лермонтов-демон-ереванский-список-rare","title":"Lermontov, M. Yu. Demon: The Yerevan Manuscript, 1941. In Russian","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eЛермонтов, М. Ю. Демон: Ереванский список.\u003cbr\u003eВступительная статья В. Мануйлова, А. Новикова и К. 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Although the manuscript is dated February 25, 1842, textual analysis indicates it represents an earlier Caucasian redaction of the poem, preceding the well-known \"Lopukhin list\" of September 8, 1838. Published in 1941 with an introductory study by leading Lermontov scholars, this facsimile-style edition holds significant value for the study of the poet's creative process and the poem's evolution. 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Published at the onset of the Great Patriotic War by the central Military Publishing House (Воен. изд-во), this compact field-format document outlines regulations for maintaining order, security, and military discipline in populated areas (garrisons), organizing guards, ceremonies, and daily routines for troops stationed away from the front lines. The 1941 edition is a primary source reflecting the standardized military protocols of the pre-war and early war period, aimed at ensuring combat readiness and discipline during total mobilization. It includes schematic illustrations detailing procedures and formations. 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Evgan.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow: Pravda, 1948.\u003cbr\u003e48 p.; 13x16.5 cm. Soft publisher's cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo. 40: Petőfi, Sándor. Heroes in Sackcloth (Geroi v deryuge).\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations by L. Brodaty.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow: Pravda, 1948.\u003cbr\u003e48 p.; 13x16.5 cm. Soft publisher's cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis description covers three specific issues from the iconic \"Krokodil Library\" series (Biblioteka \"Krokodila\"): № 11 (1945), № 38 (1948), and № 40 (1948). This long-running, popular paperback supplement to the leading Soviet satirical magazine \"Krokodil\" was published by \"Pravda\" and featured works by renowned authors, often illustrated by the magazine's celebrated artists. 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The book represents the first part of a grand epic intended to mythologize the early years of Joseph Stalin, tracing his childhood in Gori and his youth in Tbilisi within a lush, poetic framework that draws heavily on Georgian folk traditions and heroic imagery. Translated into Russian by the acclaimed poet Nikolai Tikhonov, this version allowed the narrative to reach a vast pan-Soviet audience, reinforcing the leader’s image as a figure of destiny at a time when his leadership was the central pillar of national resistance. 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It compiles Stalin's most famous wartime speeches, radio addresses, and \"Orders of the Day\" from the beginning of the German invasion in 1941 through the liberation of Soviet territories in 1944.\u003cbr\u003eThe volume includes the legendary radio broadcast of July 3, 1941, beginning with the famous address \"Brothers and sisters!\", as well as his speeches at the Red Square parades and the reports on the anniversaries of the October Revolution. The 1944 edition is particularly important as it includes his assessments of the Great Victories at Stalingrad and Kursk, outlining the transition of the Red Army from defensive struggles to the final offensive towards the frontiers of the USSR. In this study, the text provides a deep typological analysis that offers a deep dive into the internal logic of wartime propaganda, including the arrangement of patriotic appeals and the mobilization of national historical memory.\u003cbr\u003eAs a genuine wartime publication, the book is printed on the characteristic paper of the era and features a classic portrait frontispiece of Stalin in his Marshal's uniform. To ensure mass reach during the war, it was issued in a standard softcover format, making it easy to distribute to the front lines and industrial centers.\u003cbr\u003eFor historians of World War II, researchers of Stalinism, and collectors of military memorabilia, this 1944 imprint is an essential primary source. 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It represents the pinnacle of the \"Rustaveli Jubilee\" cycle of publications, bringing together the finest artistic and scholarly talents of the era. The translation by the philosopher Shalva Nutsubidze, edited by the renowned poet Sergei Gorodetsky, is celebrated for its rhythmic fidelity and philosophical depth.\u003cbr\u003eThe physical presentation of the book is exceptional. Bound in deep velvet with intricate embossing and a striking bas-relief on the front cover, the volume was designed by Ya. Egorov and E. Kogan as a true collector's item. The enlarged format emphasizes its status as a luxury gift edition, intended to showcase the cultural grandeur of the Georgian people within the Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003eThe interior is equally impressive, featuring 18 high-quality illustrations on separate plates. The book synthesizes different artistic eras of Rustavelology: it includes the classic 19th-century romanticism of Mihály Zichy, the powerful monumentalism of Sergo Kobuladze, and the dynamic graphic style of Irakli Toidze. This visual dialogue between artists offers a comprehensive interpretation of the poem’s themes of heroism, loyalty, and courtly love.\u003cbr\u003eFor bibliophiles, art historians, and collectors of Georgian literature, this 1941 edition is a landmark. Despite a print run of 10,000, surviving copies in the original velvet binding are increasingly rare. 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Prepared by the Museum of the Moscow Art Theatre under the guidance of luminaries like P. A. Markov and V. Ya. Vilenkin, this volume served to demonstrate the resilience of Russian culture during the Great Patriotic War.\u003cbr\u003eSpanning over 800 pages, the yearbook is a treasure trove of primary source material. It features exhaustive articles on theatrical theory, detailed profiles of legendary actors and directors, and, perhaps most importantly, verbatim transcripts of rehearsals and complete directorial plans. These materials offer an unprecedented \"behind-the-scenes\" look at how the principles of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko were maintained and adapted under the extreme pressures of the mid-1940s. 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This specific volume features the masterly Russian translation by the philosopher and scholar Shalva Nutsubidze, who successfully conveyed the intricate \"Chakhrukhuli\" meter—a complex rhyming scheme unique to this work.  Edited by the prominent Byzantinist Simon Kaukhchishvili and illustrated with stylistic headpieces and tailpieces by S. Ketkhoveli, the book stands as a testament to the preservation of national culture during the hardships of World War II. As a vital primary source, this volume documents the transition of medieval Georgian poetic standards into the Russian literary consciousness. 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The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of organism-environment interactions, including the arrangement of nine extensive chapters covering environmental factors, adaptation theories, biocenology, and the evolution of ecological systems. A student of M. A. Menzbir, Kashkarov transitioned from comparative anatomy and zoopsychology to become the most energetic advocate for ecology as a distinct discipline. This book was prepared for print on the eve of the Great Patriotic War; however, due to the Siege of Leningrad, the author was evacuated by plane and tragically died of heart disease in November 1941. The publication eventually emerged toward the end of the war, as evidenced by the discrepancy between the 1944 title page and the 1945 cover.  As a vital primary source, this volume documents the mid-century development of the \"Life Form\" concept and provides a detailed illustration of desert ecology as a complex ecosystem. 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Print run 1000 copies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShalva Nutsubidze (1888–1969) was the leading Georgian philosopher of the twentieth century, founder of the school of \"aletheology\" and a central figure in Georgian medieval studies. This wartime monograph, published in Tbilisi at the height of the Second World War, sets out his celebrated hypothesis identifying the anonymous author of the Corpus Areopagiticum — the late fifth-century mystical theological writings ascribed to \"Dionysius the Areopagite,\" the Athenian convert of the Apostle Paul — with Peter the Iberian (411–491), the Georgian prince, monk, and Monophysite bishop of Maiuma. Building on the testimony of Zacharias Rhetor and on close textual analysis of Peter's biography, Nutsubidze argues that the Areopagitic writings, which exerted a foundational influence on Byzantine and Western mystical theology from Maximus the Confessor to Aquinas and Eckhart, originated within Eastern monastic circles around Peter the Iberian. 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Edition interrupted at the second volume by the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War.\u003cbr\u003eCondition good: bindings of both volumes tight, cloth toned and lightly soiled, rubbing at edges and corners; text blocks straight, pages clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA historically significant Soviet pre-war edition of David Ricardo (1772–1823) — one of the founding figures of classical political economy and, along with Adam Smith, the principal nineteenth-century theorist of value, rent, comparative advantage, and the distribution of national income. Ricardo occupied a place of central importance in the Soviet canon of political-economic classics: Karl Marx engaged with his arguments at length throughout «Das Kapital» and the «Theories of Surplus Value», and Lenin referred repeatedly to his theory of differential rent in the analysis of Russian agrarian capitalism. The present edition was conceived by the State Publishing House of Political Literature (Госполитиздат) as the first Soviet «Sochineniya» of Ricardo in five volumes — a project that would have placed Volume I (The Principles, 1817) and the monetary writings collected in Volume II alongside parliamentary speeches, correspondence, and the polemical pamphlets of the bullion controversy. Both volumes appeared in 1941 with parallel English-Russian title pages and the imprints «The State Political Press» \/ «ОГИЗ Госполитиздат». The German invasion of June 1941 abruptly interrupted the project: volumes III–V were never published, leaving the «pyatitomnik» a permanently incomplete two-volume set. 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Антропология : краткий курс \/ под редакцией проф. В. В. Бунака ; редактор М. М. Местергази. — Допущен Наркомпросом РСФСР в качестве учебного пособия для университетов.\u003cbr\u003eМосква : Государственное учебно-педагогическое издательство Наркомпроса РСФСР [Учпедгиз], 1941. — 376 с., 2 вкл. л. ил., с илл., картами, схемами.\u003cbr\u003eИздательский цельнотканевый переплёт. Энциклопедический формат. Тираж 6 000 экземпляров. \u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: лёгкие потёртости тканевого переплёта по углам и краям, незначительное истирание по верхнему краю корешка, тиснение читаемо. Возрастное пожелтение бумаги (типичное для военных лет), отдельные пятнышки. Блок крепкий, страницы и иллюстрации полностью читаемы. \u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eBunak V. V., Nesturkh M. F., Roginsky Ya. Ya. Anthropology : A Short Course \/ edited by Prof. V. V. Bunak ; in-house editor M. M. 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Text-block firm, leaves and illustrations fully legible throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive Soviet university textbook in physical anthropology, prepared by the three towering figures of the discipline as it had been built up under Soviet conditions during the inter-war decades. Viktor Valerianovich Bunak (1891–1979), the volume's editor and principal architect, was the founder of academic physical anthropology in the USSR, the long-serving head of the Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Moscow University, and the author of the standard Soviet methodological texts on craniometry and somatology. Mikhail Fedorovich Nesturkh (1895–1979) was the leading Soviet specialist on primate evolution and human origins; Yakov Yakovlevich Roginsky (1895–1986), one of the principal twentieth-century theorists of race, was the originator (with Bunak) of the polycentric theory of human racial differentiation and a tenacious critic of Western racial typology and of the polygenist tradition. The volume is a document of profound historical interest beyond its disciplinary content. Signed for printing in October 1940 and released in the spring of 1941 — that is, in the months immediately preceding the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union — it represents the most fully developed Soviet response to National-Socialist racial science, opening with a preface that explicitly identifies \"the attempt to pervert anthropological data in the spirit of 'racial theory'\" as the central distorting tendency of contemporary international anthropology and proposing in its place a programme grounded in Engels's theory of the role of labour in the becoming-human of the primate, in Darwinian evolution, and in the conception of race as an historical rather than a metaphysical category. The four parts of the work — anthropogenesis (Nesturkh), merology, somatology and the analysis of human races (Roginsky) — are illustrated throughout with fine plates including the famous synoptic plate of human racial types reproduced in many later Soviet handbooks. As an uncensored 1941 first edition, the volume preserves the Bunak–Roginsky framework before the political reorganisations of Soviet anthropology in the late 1940s and early 1950s; as a textbook in the original cloth, it is uncommon today, and it is sought after by historians of science, by collectors of Soviet anti-Nazi publishing on the eve of the war, and by working physical and biological anthropologists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44300690751530,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_2135.jpg?v=1777502607"},{"product_id":"lordkipanidze-konstantine-the-wanderer-mogzauri-illustrated-by-s-n-ketskhaveli-1941-in-georgian","title":"Lordkipanidze, Konstantine. The Wanderer (Mogzauri). Illustrated by S.N. Ketskhaveli, 1941. In Georgian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eლორთქიფანიძე, კონსტანტინე (1905-1986). მოგზაური \/ მხატვ. ს. ნ. კეცხოველი ; საქ. ალcს კ. ც.კ.ის საბავშვო და ახალგაზრდ. ლიტ. გამ.\u003cbr\u003eთბილისი : საბლიტგამი, 1941. 32 გვ. : 2 ჩართ. ფ. ილ. ; 15 სმ.\u003cbr\u003eმაგარი ყდა (ქაღალდით გარეკანი), ფერადი ილ. ყდაზე. ტირაჟი 4 000 ც.\u003cbr\u003eყდა - დამაკმაყოფილებელი: ძლიერ გაყვითლებული, ლაქებით, კუთხეები ცვეთილი. ბლოკი - კარგი: წინა ფორზაცი სველი ლაქებით; 2 ილ. ფ. სრული, ტექსტი წასაკითხი.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eLordkipanidze, Konstantine (1905-1986). The Wanderer \/ illustrated by S.N. Ketskhaveli ; Georgian Komsomol Central Committee Children's and Youth Literature Publishing House.\u003cbr\u003eTbilisi : Sabalitgami (Detunizdat TsK LKSM G.), 1941. 32 pp. : 2 inserted illustration plates ; 15 cm.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover (paper-covered boards) with color illustration on front board. Print run of 4,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eBinding fair: boards heavily yellowed and soiled throughout, corners worn. Text block good: front pastedown with moisture staining; both illustration plates present; text complete and legible throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKonstantine Lordkipanidze (1905-1986) was one of the leading figures of Soviet Georgian prose, the author of the major novels The Dawn of Kolkhida and The Magic Stone, screenwriter of the film Friendship (1941), editor-in-chief of the journal Literaturnaya Gruziya (1956-1962), and a Hero of Socialist Labor (1985). He had been an active figure in the literary-political culture of Stalinist Georgia, including as a participant in the 1937 purges of literary colleagues. The present story, Mogzauri (The Wanderer), was published by the Georgian Komsomol youth press in February 1941, in the months immediately preceding the German invasion of the USSR. Its subject is a real historical episode from the Gori of 1892: the encounter of two traveling poets in the provincial Caucasian town, one of whom is the young Joseb Jughashvili (the future Stalin), a student at the Gori Spiritual Seminary, and the other the wandering young Gorky, who was traveling through the Caucasus and would publish his first story, Makar Chudra, in the Tiflis newspaper Kavkaz that same year. The colophon notes that the young Stalin was greatly taken with this work. The story is thus a piece of the Stalin personality cult in its classic 1940-1941 phase, presenting the intertwined origins of the Soviet Union's two most politically sanctioned cultural figures. The volume is illustrated with two tipped-in halftone plates by the Georgian artist S.N. Ketskhaveli, and carries a color lithographic cover illustration. Small-format Soviet Georgian illustrated booklets of this type, issued by the Komsomol youth press in the 1940s, are fragile survivors of which very few copies in any condition reach the antiquarian market.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315487567914,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_2684.jpg?v=1777986727"},{"product_id":"chukovsky-k-the-crocodile-an-old-tale-krokodil-staraya-skazka-illustrated-by-re-mi-nikolai-remizov-1941-in-russian","title":"Chukovsky, K. The Crocodile: An Old Tale (Krokodil: staraya skazka) \/ illustrated by Re-Mi [Nikolai Remizov]. 1941. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eЧуковский, Корней Иванович. Крокодил : старая сказка, 1916 \/ рис. Ре-Ми. \u003cbr\u003eМосква ; Ленинград : Детиздат ЦК ВЛКСМ, 1941. 40 с., ил. ; 25,2×19,6 см.\u003cbr\u003eИздательская цветная иллюстрированная обложка. Для дошкольного возраста.\u003cbr\u003eОтветственный редактор В. Завьен. Тираж 100 000 экз. \u003cbr\u003eПереплет плохой: обложка с крупными разрывами и утратами бумаги у всех углов и краёв; задняя обложка с глубокими трещинами и сильным замятием по всей поверхности; корешок расшатан. Блок удовлетворительный: бумага пожелтела, отдельные листы с надрывами по краям; текст и иллюстрации разборчивы.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eChukovsky, Kornei Ivanovich. Krokodil: staraya skazka [The Crocodile: An Old Tale], 1916 \/ illustrated by Re-Mi [Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov]. \u003cbr\u003eMoscow ; Leningrad : Detizdat TsK VLKSM (Children's Publishing House of the Central Committee of the Komsomol), 1941. 40 pp., illustrated ; 25.2×19.6 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's color illustrated wrappers. For pre-school age.\u003cbr\u003eExecutive editor V. Zavyen. Print run 100,000. \u003cbr\u003eBinding poor: covers with major tears and paper loss at all corners and edges; rear cover with deep cracks and heavy creasing throughout; spine weakened. Text block fair: paper age-yellowed; occasional tears at page edges; text and illustrations legible throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Crocodile\" — written in 1916 and first published in serial form in the family magazine \"Niva\" — is the founding work of Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky's celebrated cycle of children's poems and, by the poet's own account, the beginning of a new Russian children's literature. The poem, a comic epic about a crocodile who walks the streets of Petersburg smoking cigarettes and speaking Turkish, escapes to Africa, and returns for a utopian peace between humans and animals, was illustrated from the outset by Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov (1887-1975), who signed his work Re-Mi — a major pre-revolutionary caricaturist celebrated for his work in \"Satirikon\" magazine. Remizov emigrated to France after the revolution and spent the rest of his life in Paris; his illustrations for \"Krokodil,\" however, continued to accompany Soviet editions of the poem for decades, making this book a quiet artifact of the cultural entanglements of the émigré and Soviet worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44369780670506,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_3309.jpg?v=1778853359"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/collections\/World_War_II_Collection.png?v=1771324736","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/collections\/world-war-ii-the-great-patriotic-war-1941-1945.oembed?page=2","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}