Mayakovsky, VL. Songs for workers. Illustrations By Adlivankin S.

Mayakovsky, VL. Songs for workers. Illustrations By Adlivankin S.
M. Down with illiteracy. One thousand nine hundred twenty five Circulation of 3000 copies. 98 p., Fig. Paperback, size 13 x 17.5 cm. Good condition. There is no front cover and spine; the title is separate from the block, with seals and inscriptions.

Lifetime edition, sixteen drawings by S. ya. Adlivankin in the text.

Samuel Yakovlevich Adlivankin (7 [19] July 1897, Tatarsk, Mogilev province — 7 March 1966, Moscow) was a Soviet artist.

Painter, muralist, graphic artist, was part of the "left" wing of Soviet art in 1920-30. Worked with a poster, painted portraits, genre paintings, landscapes. The style of the works is close to lubk, primitive, worked in the spirit of a.m. Rodchenko, L. S. Popova, did easel work in a grotesque style. Artistic value is mainly represented by works before 1925.

1923-1928-worked for the publishing house "Young guard"; illustrated magazines "Godless", "Lapot", "Military crocodile", worked with V. V. Mayakovsky.

Down with illiteracy - all-Russian voluntary society. It was founded in 1923 and aimed to promote all possible measures to eliminate illiteracy and low literacy among the adult population of the USSR. The society created schools and groups, and its members carried out individual work to educate the illiterate, as well as extensive political and educational work. In 1930, the society had about 3 million members with 200,000 members. it has done a particularly great job in the village. During its existence (1923-36), members of the society trained about 5 million illiterate and illiterate people. The society published magazines: "Kultpokhod" (1930-32), "Increase literacy" (1933-36) and "Bulletin of the Central Council of the society "Down with illiteracy" (1930-35).