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5 December 2012, 10:00 EST
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TRETYAKOV, SERGEI MIKHAILIKOV. 1892-1937.

ALIVANKIN, SAMUIL YAKOVLEVOICH, illustrator. Pashka i Papashka [Little Pasha and Little Papa]. Moscow and Leningrad: "Molodaya Gvardiya," n.d.
4to (295 x 225 mm). 16 pp. Color lithographs. Color lithographed wrappers. Wrapper reinforced, occasional overprinting, waterstains not affecting art or text.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. When a boy is forbidden to join the Young Pioneers, he reforms his capitalist father by taking up his bad habits of smoking, drinking and gambling. S.M. Tretyakov was an important Soviet poet, playwright and journalist who contributed to Mayakovsky's LEF and was co-editor of Novyi LEF [New LEF]. He also translated Bertolt Brecht into Russian. He was arrested for espionage during the Great Purge and is reported to having committed suicide in prison. Alivankin was a Jewish avant-garde painter and political cartoonist who studied with V. Tatlin. He illustrated Tretyakov's agitprop text with colorful comic Constructivist pictures. The father is a cousin to V. V. Lebedev's famous tolstyak [fat man] in S. Marshak's Morozhenoe [Ice Cream] (1925). Alivankin was condemned for "cosmopolitanism" during Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign begun in 1949 but was later "rehabilitated."

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