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[WARTIME PROPAGANDA] Pobedy sovetskogo tyla (Materialy v pomoshch’ propagandistu i agitatoru) [i.e. Triumphs of the Soviet Home Front (Materials to Assist Propagandists and Agitators)]

Item #2776

Leningrad: Voennoe izdatel’stvo Narodnogo Komissariata Oborony, 1944. 34, [2] pp. 14x11 cm. In original printed wrappers. Very good, some pale foxing on first leaves.

First and only edition. No printrun is indicated. The book was approved for print on September 4, 1944. It was printed under the control of Red Army Major N. Chukalin.

This slim and small book contains five boastful pieces: Pravda articles, excerpts from reports and a collective letter addressed to the leader. All these texts were accepted to promote among Soviet civil people.

According to the first text, the war saw the Soviet economy reach new and sometimes dramatic heights. A massive construction program got underway across the heavy industrial sector: blast furnaces, mines, power plants, railways, and factories were built. New facilities were commissioned — a blast furnace and coke battery in the Donbas, another coke battery in Magnitogorsk, blast furnaces in Uzbekistan, and factories in Chelyabinsk. At the same time, an extensive effort was made to rebuild industrial sites damaged or destroyed by enemy shelling. During the war, the old Donbas found itself on the front lines and, eventually, under fascist occupation. But the factories in the Urals and Kuzbas — which had been built during the first five-year plan — were far from the fighting. There, work never stopped. Day after day, crews met and surpassed their quotas.

Not found in Worldcat.

Price: $500.00