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[DESIGN YOURSELF A DEMONSTRATION] S chem i kak vyhodit’ na ulitsu. Oformlenie demonstratsii [i.e. With What and How to Go on Streets. Design of Demonstration]

Item #667

Moscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniia, 1928. 48 pp. 17x13 cm. In original wrappers. Foxing, otherwise very good and clean copy.

First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Illustrated throughout.
The handbook from the series ‘be your own master’ gives the instructions how to turn the march into impressive performance.
Every Soviet organization took part in regular marches and demonstrations, because these events considered as celebrations, not protest. Looking for the most powerful decorations, the groups of people used the posters, cloth with slogans, flags. This book explained how to choose the right emblem, slogans and effectively walk with them, what clothes to wear and what else could be used.
The interesting point of this book is creation of the political plywood puppet. This toy with moving parts appeared in the middle 1920s and gained more and more popularity for marches. They often displayed the caricatures on the foreign politicians. For example, 1927 May Day demonstration performed several puppets depicting Chiang Kai-shek because of Chinese revolution. The positive marionettes portrayed workers, showing increases in the output.
The advices how to decorate a car, a bicycle and even a horse carriage are suppied with the illustrations giving the historical photo-documentation of such demonstrations.

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