[UKRAINIAN DIASPORA – CHILDRENS' LITERATURE AND SCOUTING IN EXILE] Kalynovi iahidky. Bat'ky ditiam. Rik I. Ch. 2. [Red cranberries. Parents for children. Year I. Vol. 2].
Stryi; New York; Omaha; Cleveland: Vydannia zahonu Ch[ervona] K[alyna]. 5 K.U.P.S., 1952. Oblong octavo (17.5 × 21.5 cm). Original side-stapled wrappers with a decorative mimeographed design; 36 pp. of mimeographed text and illustrations to rectos and versos. Light soil to wrappers, owner inscription to front wrapper; markings in pencil to rear wrapper and to inside of the block; else about about very good. Item #55330
Second volume (of five printed) of this short-lived illustrated periodical published by the 5th Troop of the Chervona Kalyna scouts, which was part of the larger “Plast” scouting movement. This volume intended for children of the Ukrainian diaspora contains patriotic poems, essays about life in exile, puzzles, rebuses, as well as letters from the readers. A highlight of this volume is a story of Ukrainian girl scouts in Ohio, prevented from displaying the Ukrainian flag during a schoolwide scouting event because of the local confusion about Ukraine being associated with the Soviet Union, with soviet insignia being illegal in the US at this time. The girls explaining to the school administration that Ukraine was in fact annexed by the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian flag should not be confused with the Soviet flag.
A patriotic Ukrainian scouting organization, Plast was founded in Lviv in 1911, with Chervona Kalyna section founded in 1925. The Ukrainian scouts continued their activities in the German and Austrian DP camps after WWII, with the 5th troop of Chevona Kalyna established in 1947. After the dispersion of Ukrainian DPs in the early 1950s, many Ukrainians settled in the United States, with local chaoters of the Plast scouts operating around the US. One of 125 copies printed.
As of October 2025, KVK, OCLC show one copy of this volume worldwide, in North America.
Price: €250.00