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E. Kuznetsov, Circus, 1931.
These Russian book jackets from the thirties are among the many riches on offer in the New York Public Library’s newly enhanced digital collections. Below are some favorites; you can see the whole collection here.
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Boris Efimov, Nazism – an Enemy of Peoples, 1937.
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Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov, Imaginary Portraits, 1933.
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Kornei Ivanovich Chukovskii, Fairy Tales, 1935.
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Aleksandr Belyayev, Jump Into Nowhere, 1932.
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V. Vasilev, N. Menshikov, and M. Kiriushina, Two Years in the Tundra, 1935.
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Unknown author, How Brother Rabbit Defeated the Lion, 1935.
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Petr Mikhailovich Ershov, The Little Humpback Horse, 1933.
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Unknown author, A Hundred Years of the Aleksandrinskii Theater, 1932.
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Boris Efimov, A Solution Will Be Found, 1932.
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Leonid Sergeevich Sobolev, Major Repairs, 1933.
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Lev Isaevich Slavin, The Intervention, 1933.
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T. Boritskii, The Conquest of the Depths, 1934.
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Unknown author, White Sea Canal Project, 1933.
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Isaak Emanuilovich Babel, Stories, 1932.
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Anton Chekhov, Cherry Orchard, 1933–1935.
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Tseretelli, A Russian Peasant Toy, 1933.
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Olga Forsh, A Mooring Mast, 1930.
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Ilia Ehrenburg, My Paris, 1933.