[VOLGA GERMANS] So rufen wir Jungen von Wahn zu Wahrheit : Verse über gestern und morgen = Zovut iunye : Stikhi o vcherashnem i zavtrashnem [i.e. Youth Call : Verses about Yesterday and Tomorrow]

Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1928. 39 pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and back cover, upper corners of covers lost, otherwise very good and clean internally.
One of 5000 copies. Covers are in German and Russian, poetry is in German.
Cover design by V. Lots features typical for the Soviet satire posters comparison of two opposite pictures. These two showed living conditions of peasants in bourgeois and proletarian countries. Ten illustrations within the text were produced by R. Fink.
Collection of anti-bourgeois and anti-religious poems for a large Volga German minority released by the German department of MAPP [Moscow Association of Proletarian Writers].
Settlements of Volga Germans began to appear in Povolzhye in the 18th century after Catherine the Great had invited Europeans to this region. By the early 20th century, 190 settlements of over 400 thousand people were recorded. After the October Revolution, the Soviet authorities established the Autonomous Oblast of Volga Germans that was also known as the Working Commune of Povolzhye Germans. It changed its name, administrative city but existed until 1941. Their republic was formed during the intense national policy of the USSR in the 1920s - early 1930s. Non-Russian ethnic groups were concentrated in specific territories where their "happy socialist life" began. Development of ethnic cultures was provided through introducing socialist economics and ideology. In 1924, the German language was accepted as the second official one. Just like other minorities, the authorities favored them until the late 1930s. Soon after World War II had started, Volga German families were deported to Kazakhstan, Altai and Siberia.

No copies are located in the USA, according to Worldcat.