Item Summary

The contents also include lyrics to the pre-1944 Soviet national anthem, 'The International,' readings on the evils of church and monastaries, readings on the state, school, and labor, as well as a story by Maxim Gorky about the revolutionary vanguard.

Descriptive Information

Title
Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnyĭ raboche-krestʹi︠a︡nskiĭ bukvarʹ dli︠a︡ vzroslykh.
Call Number
Pams / NR 20 / Cyrillic / Box 29 13920
NR CyrillicQ 13920
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mg74qn497
Publisher
Moskva : Moskovskiĭ gubispolkom, 1920.
Language
Russian
Date Created
1920
Extent
32 p. : ill. (part photographs) ; 26 cm.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Includes instructions for teachers on pp. 31-32.
The illustrations include portraits of Marx, photographs of Trotsky, Rosa Luxembourg, Karl Liebknecht (this is around the time of the Spartakus uprising), Lenin, and Engels.
The vocabulary includes such words as 'factory,' 'machine,' 'platform,' 'centralization,' 'tribune,' 'commune,' and the acronym for the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
Introduces words for everyday things: hand, doll, bridge, gate, saw, plow, and various animals, along with those for political concepts from the beginning: L = Kulak, I= Komitet, Sovetskaia Rossiia, Kapitalist, etc. The short readings at the end are primarily on political themes: the October Revolution, Soviet Deputies, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the Red Army, the Internationale (Arise, ye prisoners of dogma...), an anti-clerical piece concerning monastaries, some poems and a short piece by Gorky.
Attractive well executed cover design of peasant with sickle and smith with hammer flanking arrangement of globe, books and scientific instruments and title, below in cartouche, the hammer and sickle.
Translated title: Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Primer for Adults.
Poorly printed text.
Princeton copy 1 Printed on newsprint, browned. Reddish stain on cover.
Princeton copy 2 Tear in lower margin throughout.
Binding Note
Pub. tan pictorial wrappers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Functional literacy
Readers (Primary)
Russian language—Readers
Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917-1921
Propaganda, Soviet
Reading (Adult education)—Soviet Union
Communism

Physical Characteristics

File Count
36

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
IIIF Manifest URL

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