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[ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE RED PARADE] Prazdnenstva revolutsii [i.e. The festivities of the revolution]

Tsekhnovitser, O.

Item #2255

2nd edition, corrected and enlarged. Moscow; Leningrad: Priboy, OGIZ, 1931. 208 p. 1 of 7000 copies produced. Original cardboard binding. Illustrated black-red-and-white dust jacket. Boards are slightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy.

The design of illustrations and the jacket by Boris Erbstein. Binding design by Maxim Ushkova-Poskochina.

None of the contributors to this edition have lived a long and happy life.
Tsekhnovitser Orest Veniaminovich (1899-1941) - Soviet literary and theater critic, writer, publicist, teacher, professor, candidate of philological sciences. Head of the manuscript department of the Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature, scientific secretary, and head of the archive of the Pushkin House. Volunteered for the front and died during the defence of Tallinn. Two of his books were banned: Demonstration and Carnival (1927) and the first edition of this book (1929). The revised edition was allowed to circulate.
Erbstein Boris Mikhailovich (1901-1964) - graphic artist. Arrested in 1932 (Article 58-10, exile - Kursk, Borisoglebsk). Released in 1934. Repeated arrest - September 1941 (Article 58-6, sentenced to 10 years), remand - Siblag (Krasnoyarsk area); released in December 1947. Committed suicide on June 13, 1963.
Ushkov-Poskochin Maxim Vladimirovich (1893-1943) - Soviet graphic artist, poster artist, illustrator, cartoonist, theater artist. Arrested in 1941, sentenced “for counter-revolutionary activities” (Article 58-10) to 8 years. He died in 1943 in the Karaganda forced labor camp.
The book itself is the manual for the organizers of the parades, the agitation workers, and the participants in the demonstrations. It sums up the ‘science of the Soviet parade’, giving the broad overview of this culture at the time in the USSR. The book is divided into four sections, one on the theatre performances, including the chapters on Petrushka theatre, performances from the movable platforms, the sport competitions, the propaganda of the Red Army, the use of aviation in the parades and demonstrations, the use of cinema, one chapter is dedicated to the ceremonies of the opening of the factories and plants. The musical section covers the use of radio for the demonstrations, the chorus and solo singing and the use of folk songs in the festivities. The third section is dedicated to the art of the parade, décor of the streets, tribunes and arches, the use of allegorical prop figures and posters, the costumes and make-up as well as the use of illumination for the nighttime demonstrations. One section is dedicated to the organization of the parade – how to draw crowds to it, what should be written in the leaflets and flyers, how to organize the movement of the parade on the streets and how to draw the most effective plan of the locomotion, what should be children’s role in the parade, how to count the participants of the event and how to shoot the photo and video account of the demonstration.

Overall, unlike other titles from the period, this book covers every possible aspect of organizing and participating in the parade.

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