Item #556 [“LEARN TO REST REASONABLY”] Kooperativnye doma otdykha i dachi: Rabochee zhilishchno-stroitel’noe kooperativnoe tovarishchestvo “Dom otdykha” [i.e. Cooperative Country Houses and Cottages: Workers’ House Constructing Partnership “Holiday House”]
[“LEARN TO REST REASONABLY”] Kooperativnye doma otdykha i dachi: Rabochee zhilishchno-stroitel’noe kooperativnoe tovarishchestvo “Dom otdykha” [i.e. Cooperative Country Houses and Cottages: Workers’ House Constructing Partnership “Holiday House”]
[“LEARN TO REST REASONABLY”] Kooperativnye doma otdykha i dachi: Rabochee zhilishchno-stroitel’noe kooperativnoe tovarishchestvo “Dom otdykha” [i.e. Cooperative Country Houses and Cottages: Workers’ House Constructing Partnership “Holiday House”]
[“LEARN TO REST REASONABLY”] Kooperativnye doma otdykha i dachi: Rabochee zhilishchno-stroitel’noe kooperativnoe tovarishchestvo “Dom otdykha” [i.e. Cooperative Country Houses and Cottages: Workers’ House Constructing Partnership “Holiday House”]
[“LEARN TO REST REASONABLY”] Kooperativnye doma otdykha i dachi: Rabochee zhilishchno-stroitel’noe kooperativnoe tovarishchestvo “Dom otdykha” [i.e. Cooperative Country Houses and Cottages: Workers’ House Constructing Partnership “Holiday House”]
[“LEARN TO REST REASONABLY”] Kooperativnye doma otdykha i dachi: Rabochee zhilishchno-stroitel’noe kooperativnoe tovarishchestvo “Dom otdykha” [i.e. Cooperative Country Houses and Cottages: Workers’ House Constructing Partnership “Holiday House”]
[“LEARN TO REST REASONABLY”] Kooperativnye doma otdykha i dachi: Rabochee zhilishchno-stroitel’noe kooperativnoe tovarishchestvo “Dom otdykha” [i.e. Cooperative Country Houses and Cottages: Workers’ House Constructing Partnership “Holiday House”]

[“LEARN TO REST REASONABLY”] Kooperativnye doma otdykha i dachi: Rabochee zhilishchno-stroitel’noe kooperativnoe tovarishchestvo “Dom otdykha” [i.e. Cooperative Country Houses and Cottages: Workers’ House Constructing Partnership “Holiday House”]

Item #556

Moscow: R.Zh.S.K. t-vo “Dom otdykha”, [1928]. 36, [4] pp.: ill. 26x17 cm. In original publisher’s photomontage oversized wrappers. Very good. Wrappers rubbed with some minor restoration, faded ink stamp on the front wrapper, creases and small tears of the extremities of the wrappers.

First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Very rare.
This edition is an amazing evidence of the labour hygiene that was initiated in a new country - annual two week vacation for which government was determined to create a public system of sanatoriums and pensions. Holiday or rest houses (‘doma otdykha’ literally means houses of rest), sanatoriums and pensions were distinctive for the USSR from the very beginning of its existence. They were designed to provide rest for workers. The Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR of May 13, 1921 “On Holiday Houses” was the first law of post-revolutionary Russia, which regulated the creation of an institute of holiday homes in order to give workers and employees the opportunity to recover their strength and energy during their annual regular leave in the most favorable and healthy conditions. In addition, the decree prescribed at the rest house to create an agricultural enterprise, whose workers will provide meals for guests of the holiday home. This decree was signed by Lenin.
This particular edition sheds light onto cooperative partnership “Dom otdykha” (i.e. Holiday House) which was offering accommodations for rest in “nice places” like Kuban’, Crimea, Moscow region to its members. The idea of organizing such houses on a cooperative basis arose in the early years of New Economic Policy (NEP). This particular co-op was established in 1925. In this edition are briefly described the history of its establishment, two year work, reviews of vacationists, who can become a member of the co-op, FAQ, financial balance, contributions, resolutions of the assembly of commissioners, information on current accomodations and for those who was coming to stay, etc. All information is accompanied by many photographs of resting proletariat.
Overall, a very interesting and rich source of photographs and information on day to day life and politics during NEP era.
Not found on Worldcat.

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