Vishnevskaia, E.D., compiler. Kashirin, P[etr] A., editor.	Antireligioznyi chtets - deklamator. M., OGIZ , Gosudarstvennoe antireligioznoe izdatel´stvo, 1941. 574 p., glossary.	€250

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Large 8 vo, decorative publisher´s binding in blue.Stained, traces of fire.GOOD. VERY RARE. Better quality paper, probably PCF paper. Unknown to collectors and some specialists in the field, missiing in many reference works. First (and only) edition.The last antireligious anthology printed shortly before WW II (Signed for press on 1941 - 05 - 30). Among contributors: Nikolai Aseev, Dzhambul, V. Kuibyshev, Volodymyr Sosiura, Iosif Utkin and others. One verse signed by 'a collective' author 'Poety osvobozhdennogo naroda byvshei Zapadnoi Ukrainy' (Lwow, December 1939).Our copy is from a reference library of unregistered propaganda material for politruki at 'Dom Krasnoi Armii [...]' at Poliarnoe military base. Petr Kashirin was a nomenklatura apparatchik and later officer at SVAG in Karlshorst. Only 1 copy of mikrofiche edition registered in WorldCat. See: SVAG archives in Moscow and Germany.