Author: SOLONEWITSCH, Tamara
Title: Hinter den Kulissen der Sowjet propaganda: Erlebniffe einer SowjetdolmetfdyerinErlebnisse.
Description: Volksverband der Bücherfreunde, 1937. Hardcover. No dj. Title translates as - Behind the Scenes of Soviet Propaganda: Experiences of a Soviet Interpreter. Ex Libris plate to inside front cover. In gothic German script. Tamara Vladimirovna Solonevich (1894-1938), Russian interpreter, author and dissident critic, wife of the Russian author and Soviet dissident Ivan Solonevich (1891-1953). From 1928 to 1931 she worked in Berlin for the Soviet commercial agency. In 1932 she was able to leave the Soviet Union with her son and lived in Bulgaria. She was killed on 3 February 1938 in a bombing raid on the premises of the newspaper editorial staff of the Golos Rossii. The attack by the Soviet secret service NKVD also applied to her husband and brother Boris Solonevich (1898-1989) (Wikipedia). Half-bound red boards with coloured decorative paper, gilt to spine, coloured top edges. Several slight grubby marks to spine, o/wise good condition. 254pp.

Keywords: Soviet propaganda Experiences interpreter history russia russian ussr politics political 20th twentieth century NKVD espionage