Senko, H.

Shtany latani u klitku - vykonuiem piatylitku… [Patch pants - performing a five-year plan…]

Buenos Aires: Peremoha, [1950]. Original illustrated wrappers. Fair. Item #224

Duodecimo (13,5 x 18 cm). 34 pages: illustrations. Text in Ukrainian. Inscription in pencil “Gift: Wasyl Nahirniak, Sept 1971, Madison, Wisconsin” to page 3; one corner nibbled by a rodent.

A small collection of Ukrainian folk art on the totalitarian Bolshevik regime, heroic struggle and the power of folk songs. Stalin used folklore as a mode to rule people, which was then widely distributed. People, in return, created their sarcastic songs. The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the USSR consisted of a series of nationwide centralized economic plans, beginning in the late 1920s.

OCLC shows seven copies, as of April 2020.

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