Author: Various
Title: An Original Personalized Photo Album of a Member of the Bulgarian Youth Brigade, Appointed by the Communist Party, Working in the Mines in Gorlovka, Ukraine (1957-1960)
Description: Gorlovka: Secretary of the Party, 1960. Hardcover. On the front cover (in Bulgarian): "Brotherly Friendship, Unbreakable/ Album of the Bulgarian Youth Brigade, 'VII Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party,' Shafts '19-20,' 11 'Bis' and 'Komsomolets'/ Town of Gorlovka-Donbass, USSR 1957-1960/ Dimitrov, D. P. Oblong 10" x 13"; pp. 20 (5 empty at the end); red embossed covers; heavy textured pages; each page contains an original photographic collage of smaller photos; several rubbed spots to spine; slight age-darkening and warping to margins of some of the pages; very good. Russian-Bulgarian youth brigades working together were common during Communism. The current album was presented to a member of the Bulgarian group as a memento and a token of the undying friendship between the two countries. All the photos measure approximately 7" x 9" with the first being a personal picture of the man (Dimitrov, D. P.) presented with the album, the second - a collage of photos of Lenin and Georgi Dimitrov, and the rest - the Party leaders, the people in the brigade, and views of the town of Gorlovka and the coal mines in the Donetsk Province of Eastern Ukraine. Ill.: 0. Very Good 2.

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