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Rare first issue, one of only two published, of this Berlin journal by the SR (Socialist Revolutionary) Party, edited by Aleksandr Shreider (1895-1930), a former member of the government following the February Revolution who later went into exile. Despite its political aims, the journal also boasts an impressive list of literary contributors and features work by Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Sergei Esenin, Ivanov-Razumnik, Nikolai Kliuev, E. G. Lundberg, Il'ia Erenburg and others. Wrappers designed by Polina Khentova (1890s-1933), an artist originally from Vitebsk who participated in the short-lived and little-known "Shomir", a loose association of young Jewish artists that included El Lissitsky and Abram Efros and that attempted to develop a "Jewish national aesthetics" in revolutionary Moscow. Soon after the October Revolution, Khentova joined the artistic section of the Jewish Kultur-Lige in Kiev, where, along with Shomir-affiliated artists such as Lissitsky and Mark Chagall, she once again… Read More