"DEMOKRATYZM" STALINA TA IOHO KOMINTERNU "ДЕМОКРАТИЗМ" СТАЛІНА ТА ЙОГО КОМІНТЕРНУ
Saskatoon: Nakladom Ukrains'koho natsional'noho obiednannia Kanady [Ukrainian National Association of Canada], 1939. Item #43503
First edition. Original Antisemitic illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 31 pages. Includes cartoon illustrations. 21 cm. In Ukrainian. Title translates as “‘Democratism’ of Stalin and his Comintern.”
Holocaust-era cover shows a stereotyped image of two fat rich Jews in a carriage driven by Stalin. He whips the Ukrainian peasants on to pull faster as they roll over the skulls of the dead. The illustrations is a variant on an oft-used Antisemitic Anticommunist image. See for example this variation at the Blavatnik Archive with Trotsky in the drivers’ seat:
https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/item/19086; The Archive notes, “this image suggests the USSR (depicted as the cart) is really a haven for Jewish capital. Two stereotypical Jewish capitalists, a man and his wife, ride in the cart, which is driven by Leon Trotsky. The revolution’s victims are Russian workers, peasants, and soldiers, who are chained to the cart and forced to work as beasts of burden for their Jewish masters.”
Political satire criticizing Stalin and the Comintern and specifically their suppression of the Ukrainian People’s Republic.
Pohoretski 1899-1964), journalist, was born in Hadynkivtsi, Kopychyntsi county, Galicia, and died in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ”A former officer in the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, he studied at the Lviv (Underground) Ukrainian University and at the Ukrainian Free University. Pohoretsky emigrated to Canada in 1927 and edited Zakhidni visti in Edmonton with Vladimir Kaye-Kysilewsky before establishing Novyi shliakh and serving as its longtime editor (1930–54, 1960–4). He was a founding member of the Ukrainian National Federation and its president in 1936. For many years he was on the presidium of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (now Congress)” (Encyclopedia of Ukraine)
SUBJECT(S): Politics and government. Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. Communist International. Caricatures. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1945. Soviet Union. OCLC: 14877803
Light markings but otherwise in very good condition. Good+ Condition. (PSB-1-7-LCCC-BB-mexgg).
Price: $500.00