Organizing children into the young pioneer detachments was one of the defining features of life in the Soviet Union. Both book and periodical publishing reflected the importance allotted to forming communist youth in the new state. Thus, the accordion booklet "Pioneria" (1925) is destined for small children and shows young pioneers at work and at play. Periodicals, such as Kolkhoznye Rebiata (Children of the kolkhoz, nos.11-12, 1932) and Pioneriia (no.4, 1935) proselytized the new regime through illustrated articles, children's stories and photography. Books such as Marshak's Otriad (Detachment, 1933) showed young pioneers enjoying themselves in a summer camp. Politschuk's Prigoda (A Happening, 1931) uses a combination of an imaginative typography, photography and two-colour chromo-lithographed illustrations to depict the young pioneers in a factory. Neverov's Pechik achosem valli is an example of a translation of the original Russian text into Chuvash, one of the Tartar-related languages of Eastern Russia.

 

Rytko, M. 100 i 25 tysiach : vykonaiemo uhodu z Narkomzemom, Kolhosptsentrom, Spilkoiu s.-h. Kooper. / M.Rytko ta E. Kozlovs'ka. -- Kharkiv ; Kyiv : Molodyi bil'shovyk, 1931. Description: 47 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. Notes: Colour illustration on wrappers. In Ukrainian..
Kolkhoznye rebiata. Nomer 11-12. -- Moskva : "Krest'ianskaia gazeta", 1934. --Description: 22 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm. Notes: For kolkhoz pioneers and school children. Illustrations are chromolithographed..
Bezliudsko, Mikhail. Mishka Oktiabrenko / Mikh. Bezliudsko. -- Moskva : Terny gvardiia, 1932. --Description: 31 p. ; 17 cm.
Neverov, A. Pechik achasem valli : syrna kalavsem / A. Neverov ; [perevod M. Efimova]. -- Moskva : SSSR-ti Khalakhsen Tep Istattelstvi, [193-?]. --Description 31 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm. Notes: Translation (into Chuvash) of: Rasskazy dlia malen'kikh detei. Title on p. [4] of cover: Rasskazy dlia malen'kikh detei.
Pioneriia. Rik 12, nomer 4. -- Kharkiv : Dytvydav, 1935. --Description: 16 p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cm.Notes: Colour illustration on wrappers. Issue no. 4 (April 1935) of a journal for pioneers and school children dealing with literature, art, social and political affairs..

Berliant, Mikhail, D. Birher . Boiovyi spolokh ; /(pereklala M. Pryhara) ; maliunky B. IErmolenka. -- (Odesa?) : Molodyi bil'shovyk, (1931?). Description: (12) p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. Notes: Cover title. Illustrations are chromolithographed. In Ukrainian..

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Pioneriia. / risunki V. Gessnera ; tema i redaktsiia N. Gol'der. -- Moskva : Snabshefizdat, (between 1925 and 1935). --Description: (10) p. : col. ill. ; 12 x 17 cm.Notes: Cover title. Accordion folds; one continuous illustration on both sides. Illustrations are chromolithographed..

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Polishchuk, Valeriian, 1897- Pryhoda / obkladynka, maliunky i oformlennia, I. Daits. Odesa : Molodyi bil'shovyk, 1931. Description: 15 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes: In Ukrainian.

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