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[PHOTOMONTAGES ON LENIN HERITAGE] Lenin i Leninskii prizyv [i.e. Lenin and the Lenin Enrolment]

Item #914

Leningrad:
Izdanie ‘Leningradskoi pravdy’, 1924. [16] ll.: ill. 20,5x13 cm. In original
printed red-color wrappers. Very good, slightly rubbed.
Names of Trotsky and Zinoviev are totally crossed out on l. 13
(under photos of them).
Extremely rare. Growing criticism of the Communist party after
October 1917 caused the «workers’ opposition», openly challenged
Lenin and even revolted in 1920. That was one of the reasons to enroll
more members of the proletariat into the Communist party and to
encourage them to build a new state. The incredibly active propaganda
started after Lenin’s death brought 241 thousand newcomers to the
Communist party in several months. The main motif became praising
the deceased leader.
This small photo album was published for this campaign with
a huge print run of 100.000 copies and widespread memory of Lenin. It contains photographs of the leader, some dwellings where he lived
and proofs of the pervasive cult: Lenin corner in any organization,
his mausoleum, his images in art and different printed editions. The
album opens with a neat photomontage combining Lenin stood in
front of the Kremlin and a bridge over the Moscow River. It is followed
by photomontages of Lenin’s activity, Leninists at factories as well as
striking photomontage posters made for Сomintern exhibition and
considered as results of Lenin’s work.
One of the leaves features delegates of the Fifth Congress of
the Comintern, including Zinoviev and (unclear and small) Trotsky. As
long as the images of them were in the book, it was banned since the
late 1920s. Worldcat doesn’t
track this edition.

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