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Rubbed. Title-page repaired. Rear cover rumpled. Just Good. Russian Literary History Profizdat Moskva 1947 orig. wrappers 16x11cm, 447 pp., Spiner rubbed & stained. Text entirely in Russian. Contents : Magnitogorsk posle voiny.-- Cheliabinskie kolkhozy.--Na Altae.--Geroi nashego vremeni.--Nauka i piatiletka.--Mysli o sovetskoi demokratii ["Marietta Sergeevna Shaginian was a Soviet writer and activist of Armenian descent. She was one of the " fellow travelers" of the 1920s led by the Serapion Brotherhood and became one of the most prolific communist writers experimenting in satirico- fantastic fiction. In February 1912 Shaginian wrote to the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, signing herself "Re". This was the first of many letters written between them over the next 5 years, many quoted in Bertensson & Leyda. Later in 1912, Rachmaninoff asked her to suggest poems he could set as songs. Many of her suggestions appeared in his Op. 34 set of that year (list of titles in…
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Peremena. Byl' [Change. A true story]
by Shaginian, Marietta
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Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1924. Octavo (18.5 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (unattributed); 234, [3] pp. Light wear to wrappers; spine extremities frayed; text evenly toned due to stock, still about very good. Owner signature dated 1925 to title page. First edition. An early novel by the prolific Soviet writer Marietta Shaginian (1888-1982), based on her experience living in the Don region during the Russian Civil War (1918-1922). The Don region underwent several shifts of power, alternating between the Red Army and the Don Cossacks, supporting the White Czarist Troops. The novel chronicles the relationship between the peasants and the Cossacks in the countryside, as well as the workers, the "neurotic intelligentsia", and the "sedentary bourgeois" in the cities. In an introduction to the work, Shaginian claimed that all events in the novel are "pure truth." The novel came out in Leningrad in the same year as Shaginian's much more famous and presumably less serous work "Mess Mend - Yankees in Petrograd," an adventure trilogy published under the pseudonym Jim Dollar. Despite Shaginian's more serious literary efforts in Peremena, Maxim Gorky reportedly wrote: "For her novel 'Peremena' she deserves to eat a sandwich with English pins." Mess Mend by contrast was made into a tremendously popular film in 1926 by Boris Barnet. Front wrapper illustrated with a striking rendering of the overthrow of Tsarist Russia by the Reds (unattributed).
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