Brochure The Great Battle at Stalingrad, 1943.
Pocked-sized format measuring 4 ¼" x 6", soft cover, 19 pp., published by the Regional Publishing House of the city of Kuibyshev (Samara in pre- and post-Soviet times - and the temporary refuge of Stalin and seat of the Soviet government for much of the Patriotic War), approved for publication in March 1943, a month after the conclusion of the great battle. Circulation just 5,000 copies. The content regurgitates the material printed by the Pravda on 4 and 5 February 1943, right after the end of the battle, explaining to the Soviet population what had been happening at Sta
Pocked-sized format measuring 4 ¼" x 6", soft cover, 19 pp., published by the Regional Publishing House of the city of Kuibyshev (Samara in pre- and post-Soviet times - and the temporary refuge of Stalin and seat of the Soviet government for much of the Patriotic War), approved for publication in March 1943, a month after the conclusion of the great battle. Circulation just 5,000 copies. The content regurgitates the material printed by the Pravda on 4 and 5 February 1943, right after the end of the battle, explaining to the Soviet population what had been happening at Stalingrad for the past six months.
Being part of the Aid to an agitator series, the brochure raises the question of why agitators were needed to disseminate the information and agitate for - what? on the coattails of the enormous victory that had boosted the morale of the Soviet people.
In very good to excellent condition. The brochure was removed from a file, leaving five neat cuts into the spine, but the binding staple at the center is tight and strong. As evidenced by the many ex libris stamps throughout the booklet, it used to be part of the private library of V. Legotin. Comrade Legotin was either very proud of having a private library or got agitated by the material in the brochure, and so stamped the book in many places. But one of the stamps, on p. 17, belongs to Library of the Museum of the Revolution, presumably the central museum in Moscow.
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