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[PRESS AFTER THE REVOLUTION] Oktiabr’ i profpechat’ [i.e. The October and Professional Press]

Osipov, M.

Petrograd: Kniga, 1924. Item #737

68 pp. 21x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by Aleksei Ushin. Very good, small tears of the spine and margins of the wrappers. Some pages uncut.

First and only edition. One of 6000 copies. Rare.
This is one of the first summaries of professional press in after revolutionary Russia (Soviet Union). The text is divided into periods - War Communism (1918-1920), Before the NEP, NEP Period, On the Brink (1923), Future (1924). “From revolutionary agit-leaf on multi colored paper to technically perfect and ideologically correct magazine of our days, from ‘slogan like’, hastily combined poster to modern mass all-union newspaper - this is the long path of our professional press”. Despite a propaganda tone of the book, it contains interesting information and data on the early history of Soviet press.
Aleksei Ushin (1904-1942), Soviet graphic artist who was close in his art to the Mir iskusstva group. His creative rise occurred in the 1920s-30s. For two decades, he designed more than 500 books. Ushin also did a lot for the development of Soviet font art. He died of starvation in 1942 in besieged Leningrad during the WWII.

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