SOLOYEVA, E. E. et al

A very good copy of this early post-war edition despite quite brittle and browned paper. Clean and tight. Backstrip chipped. Colour illustrated card covers, b/w illustrations throughout. Used; Very Good Classic example of Soviet school publishing containing: "A Song about Stalin"...[which] was repeatedly anthologised including in the official primer for the postwar Soviet schoolroom (Rodnaya Rech' - Native Tongue)... the ethos of happiness through self-sacrifice was impressed upon them.. Balina, 2011. Tirage: one and a half million published!