[Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.

[Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.

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  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
  • [Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.
[Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.

[Suppressed ed.] Lebed, Dmitry. The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense (Ugroza voiny i protivovozdushnaya oborona). Cover by L. Kashchenko, 1936. In Russian.

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Лебедь, Дмитрий Захарович (1893-1937). Угроза войны и противовоздушная оборона. Издание второе, переработанное / обложка художника Л. Кащенко.
Москва : ОГИЗ, Государственное военное издательство, 1936 (Ленинград : типография им. К. Ворошилова). 75, [4] с. : ил. ; 21х14 см.
Картонажный переплет (иллюстрированные картонные крышки). Тираж 90 000 экз.
Конструктивистская обложка: эскадрилья бомбардировщиков над индустриальным силуэтом, с монограммой художника ЛК.
На титульном листе владельческая карандашная надпись и дата (1936).
Переплет в хорошем состоянии: легкая потертость по краям и корешку. Блок в хорошем состоянии: равномерное пожелтение бумаги, рассеянные пятнышки.
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Lebed, Dmitry (1893-1937). The Threat of War and Anti-Aircraft Defense. Second revised edition / cover design by L. Kashchenko.
Moscow : OGIZ, State Military Publishing House, 1936 (Leningrad : K. Voroshilov Printing House). 75, [4] pp. : ill. ; 21 x 14 cm.
Pictorial paper-covered boards (cased binding). Print run of 90,000 copies.
Constructivist cover design: a squadron of bombers over an industrial skyline, with the artist's monogram LK.
Previous owner's pencil ownership inscription and date (1936) on the title page.
Binding good: light edge and spine wear. Text block good: even age-toning, scattered light foxing.

A striking and now rarely encountered piece of mid-1930s Soviet civil-defense propaganda, issued at the height of the Soviet war scare by the State Military Publishing House (Voengiz) for a mass readership. The author, Dmitry Zakharovich Lebed (1893-1937), was an Old Bolshevik and senior state official who served as deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR through the first half of the 1930s and sat on the Central Control Commission of the Party; arrested in August 1937 on charges of "Ukrainian nationalism," he was shot on 30 October 1937 and rehabilitated only in 1956. This is the second, revised edition; the first edition remains untraced, with no copies recorded in dealer, auction, or catalogue sources consulted. The book's near-total absence from the market is consistent with, though not independently documented as, a Glavlit order for withdrawal and destruction of the print run following Lebed's arrest, the standard fate of works by senior officials liquidated in the Great Terror; despite the large stated print run of 90,000 copies, surviving examples are correspondingly scarce, and this dimension will be of central interest to collectors of Soviet repression and censorship. Written for the general public, the book argues that the capitalist world, led by Hitlerite Germany, is preparing an aerial and chemical war against the USSR, and sets out the tasks of the civilian population in organizing anti-aircraft (PVO) and anti-chemical (PVKhO) defense. Its chapters survey capitalist rearmament, aviation in a future war, the Nazi "flying nation," air-defense measures abroad, chemical warfare agents, mass training of workers, medical aid, collective gas shelters, and decontamination, illustrated with documentary photomontage, statistical infographics of aircraft and chemical-industry output, and press photographs. The book's further appeal lies in its pictorial cover by L. Kashchenko (monogram LK), a characteristic Constructivist aviation design in the tradition of Soviet aviation and Osoaviakhim graphics of the period. It will appeal to collectors of Soviet avant-garde and propaganda design, aviation and military history, and Great Terror association and censorship material.

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