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[TROTSKY, Lev (1879-1940)]. Doloy Negramotnost [Down with illiteracy]. Moscow: March-April 1922.
A bibliographic rarity: the exceptionally scarce issue, edited and largely written by Trotsky and consequently thoroughly obliterated by Stalinist censorship, of the journal ‘Down with Illiteracy’. In December 1919 a decree ‘On the eradication of illiteracy among the population of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic’ was issued. ‘Down with Illiteracy’ was the first Soviet mass publication to be published as part of the program. The primers aimed at promoting literacy among the adult population, were printed in many locations to achieve capillary distribution, and embodied the values of the Soviet drive for literacy in graphics as well as content, echoing Lenin’s belief that ‘Without literacy, there can be no politics, there can only be rumors, gossip and prejudice’ - a concept later articulated by Trotsky in his 1924 Literature and Revolution. By their very nature, all issues were quite perishable object; the plan of destruction of the March-April 1922 issue was of such effectiveness that we have not been able to locate any other surviving copy.
Folio (312 x 232). (Some even light browning, lower edges dusted, occasional spotting). Stitched as issued.
A bibliographic rarity: the exceptionally scarce issue, edited and largely written by Trotsky and consequently thoroughly obliterated by Stalinist censorship, of the journal ‘Down with Illiteracy’. In December 1919 a decree ‘On the eradication of illiteracy among the population of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic’ was issued. ‘Down with Illiteracy’ was the first Soviet mass publication to be published as part of the program. The primers aimed at promoting literacy among the adult population, were printed in many locations to achieve capillary distribution, and embodied the values of the Soviet drive for literacy in graphics as well as content, echoing Lenin’s belief that ‘Without literacy, there can be no politics, there can only be rumors, gossip and prejudice’ - a concept later articulated by Trotsky in his 1924 Literature and Revolution. By their very nature, all issues were quite perishable object; the plan of destruction of the March-April 1922 issue was of such effectiveness that we have not been able to locate any other surviving copy.
Folio (312 x 232). (Some even light browning, lower edges dusted, occasional spotting). Stitched as issued.
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