Alabyan (2 results)
Published by (Moscow): U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, (1942). (1942). 1942
- Softcover
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Condition: Good. - Small quarto [10-3/8 inches high by 7-7/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wraps with a decorative illustration in black on the front cover. The spine is rubbed & torn. The corners & top & bottom edges of the wraps are lightly creased. 72 & [4] pages. Illustrated in black & white with 4 plates & nu…merous textual illustrations. Good. From the Stefansson Collection of the Dartmouth College Library with a library stamp and a discard stamp on the front wrap.This issue of the English-language Soviet cultural journal VOKS contains a lengthy listing with commentary of the 1942 Stalin Prizes, which were established in 1941 to mark the sixtieth birthday of Joseph Stalin. Dimitri Shostakovich is listed as winner of one of the two top prizes for music for his Seventh Symphony. Also included are an article on architect A. Tamanyan by K. Albyan; a piece on Ilya Ehrenburg's novel "The Downfall of Paris", by war correspondent Evgeny Petrov, who was killed shortly afterwards; and "A Cinema Actress at the Front" by Zoya Fedorova about her dangerous assignment giving concerts for the troops at the front". Fedorova [1907-1981] was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy Captain Jackson Tate. After she refused the advances of police head Beria, the affair was exposed, resulting in eight years' imprisonment in a Siberian work camp She was murdered in her Moscow apartment in 1981.
More imagesLanguage: Russian
Published by Moscow Publishing House, Mosco 1938
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.Recycled
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some toning and edge wear otherwise a nice copy of this scarce and influential Stalinist Russia publication. Illustrated (illustrator).
