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[CZECH PROLETARIAT] Shakhtery, naverkh [i.e. Miners, Up!]

Item #2245

Moscow: Profizdat, 1932. 53, [3] pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine around staple, rubbed, otherwise very good and uncut copy.

Bookplate of Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová (1900-1995), known as a Czech historian and numismatist. Since 1923, she worked in the National Museum in Prague. She is mostly known for her research on Czech coinage of the 10th and 11th centuries.

The book is an early Soviet propaganda collection telling a story of a strike of North West Bohemian miners in 1932. In March 1932, fire in a mine caused the death of 8 miners and unemployment of the rest. It became the last trigger that aggravated previous conditions. Czech revolutionary writers composed articles, essays and short stories about the accident and events that happened in the following months. The book collects works written by Czechoslovakian proletarian activists recorded as V. Borin, Breitenfeld, Vchelichka, V. Kania, Severskii, Yu. Fuchik, Tsekotova. The mentioned authors published their reaction in periodicals
The works were translated into Russian by M. Skachkov. Most likely, it was Mikhail Naumovich Skachkov (1896-1937), a Don Cossack, poet and translator. After the Civil War, he emigrated to Prague and enrolled in the University of Prague. In 1925, he began to work at the trade mission of the USSR in Prague and published its periodical. He also became a member of the emigre literary association ‘Monastery of Poets’ and published the collection ‘Music of Motors’ (1926). In 1926, he moved to the USSR and collaborated with Moscow publishers as a translator from Czech, Bulgarian and Serbian. He was one of the leading Soviet specialists in South Slavic literature. In 1930, Skachkov was appointed executive secretary of the Moscow City Committee of Writers and was a political editor of the Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs [Glavlit]. His works were published in leading magazines and newspapers of the time. Apart from it, Skachkov was a member of the International Association of Revolutionary Writers of Central Europe. In 1933, Mikhail Skachkov was subjected to repression, due to literary and journalistic activities. He was first sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law, then to 10 years of labor in the Solovki camp. In 1937, the sentence was revised back.

Not found in Worldcat.

Price: $550.00