Published by Moskau, Gesellschaft für kulturelle Verbindung der Sowjetunion mit dem Ausland (WOKS), 1934., 1934
First Edition
Softcover. 25,5 x 17 cm. Drei Originalbroschuren, Einbände etwas randbestoßen und fleckig. 64 / 52 / 108 Seiten, einfarbig bebildert. Innen sauber, daher guter Gesamtzustand. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Lesen Sie etwas Schönes auf einer Bank in der Frühlingssonne! Wir haben die passende Lektüre. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K01431-431677.
Language: German
Published by Moskau: Internationale Druckerei, 1933
Gr.-8°, Broschur. Condition: Gut. 184 Seiten, zahlreiche Abb. Buch ist in einem guten Zustand, Broschur, Einband nachgedunkelt, Rücken beschädigt, hinterer Deckel fleckig, Ecken berieben, Papier in altersgemäßem sehr gutem Zustand. Diese bolschewistische Propagandaschrift wurde seit 1928 in Europa publiziert. Die VOKS "Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo Kul'turnoi Sviazi s zagranitsei" war u.a. Tarn-Organisation für russische Geheimpolizei. Die Schule in der USSR [= W.O.K.S. Sozialistischer Aufbau in der USSR. Illustrierte Sammelhefte. Organ der Gesellschaft für kulturelle Verbindung der Sowjetunion mit dem Auslande. DE-10-50 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.
Published by Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Moscow, USSR, 1934
Paperback. Bw wraps. 154 pp. Numerous bw & color plates (more bw than color). Fair (Wraps are heavily toned and foxed/worn/smudged/scuffed; wraps are loosely reinforced with tape, but the front cover is detatched from the textblock despite this; spine strip is missing; textblock edges are heavily worn/torn/foxed/smudged; marginalia is present here and there, throughout; there is dampstaining to the textblock in the lower right-hand corner that shows through the bottom right corner about 1/2 inch into the pages; textblock is broken; spine is broken; pages are toned and foxed lightly here and there.).
Moscow: WOKS, 1933. Octavo (26.3 × 17.8 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 183, [1] pp. Illustrations, tables. Light soil and creasing to wrappers, professional restoration to spine and wrapper extremities, with some loss to spine title; lightly toned due to stock; still about very good. A single volume of this illustrated German-language series advertising progress in Soviet education, published by VOKS (Vsesoiuznoie Obschestvo Kul'turnoi Sviazi s Zagranitsei, or the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Other Countries), with unattributed Constructivist-inspired wrappers. Numerous illustrations throughout the volume show new modernist school buildings across the Soviet Union, from Leninakan (Gyumri, Armenia) to Leningrad (Russia), children learning to ski and skate, attending museum exhibitions, creating placards for demonstrations, building airplane models, eating in communal cafeterias and being examined by a medical commission. Articles in the volume cover topics such as fighting illiteracy in the villages, education of "juvenile offenders", "Museum and Exhibition Work with Children", "Training and Professional Development of Teachers", and an article on "Schools of the Nationalities". Published six times a year starting in 1928, each volume had a special focus, covering topics such as Soviet Collective Farms, Soviet Literature, and Soviet Industry. Founded in 1925, the official mission of VOKS was cultural exchange, while unofficially it was rumored to be a front for Soviet spying, with the rear wrappers advertising organized guided tours of the Soviet Union, especially its industrial centers in Dnepropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine) and the newly built Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant. Producing propaganda publications in English, French, and German such as this one, was another function of VOKS. The editor of the volume, literary critic and educator Mikhail Apletin (1885-1981), was general secretary of VOKS in 1932-1935. As of May 2026, KVK, OCLC show one copy of this volume in North America.