[UKRAINIAN AVANT-GARDE – TRADE UNIONS] Lytsem do vyrobnytstva: orhan vseukrains'koi rady profspilok [Face to face with production: the print organ of the All-Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions]. Vol. I, nos. 14, 15, 16–17, 18, 19–20, 21, 22–23, 24, 25–26, 30, 34–35, 36 (1931); no. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9–10, 11–12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19–20, 21–22, 23, 25, 31–32, 33, 34, 38, 40, 41–42, 56–57, 58–59 (1932).

Kharkiv: Vydavnytstva "Ukrains'kyi robitnyk" (druk. DVOU), 1931–1932. Quartos (30.3 × 21.2 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial and photo-illustrated wrappers; 16 to 24 pp. per issue. Richly illustrated throughout with photo reproductions and caricatures. Overall about very good; light dust-soiling; a few issues with small Soviet-era library stamps “P.B-ka Sr. Az.” to title. Item #52923

Significant collection of issues of this journal of Ukrainian trade unions, with articles covering a wide range of technical issues and industries, as well as the self-organization of trade unions and workers throughout Soviet Ukraine. Individual issues feature descriptions of the life of particular workers' brigades, such as steel workers and gas engineers; workers' cooperations in Donbas; the biography of particularly accomplished workers; "national-cultural" aspects of proletarian life; as well as the denunciations of "opportunists" and other enemies of progress. A rich document of factory life and labor issues during the period of rapid industrialization, when the Dniepr Hydroelectric Dam was being constructed, collectivization gained speed, "udarnik" shock workers were being championed, and just a few months before the Holodomor, the man-made famine that claimed millions of lives in Ukraine.

The wrappers are illustrated with photographs showing workers on a wide variety of construction sites, field work, and factory environments, as well as during protests; the later issues with drawings instead of photographs. A number of the wrappers incorporate photo-montage and photographs shot from striking angles; the title is printed in different combination of two colors, resulting in a vibrant design reminiscent of avant-garde book design.

As of October 2025, KVK, OCLC show only one microform holding in Canada (contents not further described) and unspecified paper holdings at Geneva.

Price: €4,000.00

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