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[SOLOMON BOIM] Nash kolkhoz [i.e. Our Collective Farm]

Belkin, F.

Item #2278

Moscow: Detgiz, 1950. 24 pp.: ill. 28x22 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine.

First and only edition.
Fyodor Belkin (1911-[after 1959]) is considered the author of quite talentless and ideologically imbued poems, published five collections from 1947 to 1958: "The Village", "Our Collective Farm", "Native Land", "Native Space", and "Village Vysokoye". In the late 1950s, he hounded I. Ehrenburg and M. Aliger in the press. Once he decided to repeat all these pogrom ideas in a TV show and was accidentally noticed by a Minsk investigator. The latter had been looking for Fyodor Belkin, the head of the district Hitlerite gendarmerie, for 15 years because he personally shot hundreds of partisans and Jews with a revolver. Belkin was arrested and died in a camp a few years later. All his books were banned in 1959.
The book was designed by Soviet graphic artist Solomon Boim (1899–1978). He studied at VKHUTEMAS in Moscow in 1922–1929 under N. Kupreyanov, P. Lvov and P. Miturich. From 1926 he took part in art exhibitions in Moscow. He illustrated books for Detgiz and other publishing houses, and created easel graphics on historical and ideological topics.

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Price: $350.00