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Description: [RODCHENKO, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1891-1956) and Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova (1894-1958)]. O Lenine [On Lenin]. By J[osef] Stalin. [Moscow: Partisdat, 1935.] Illustrated with photogravures. Designed by A. M. Rodchenko and V. F. Stepanova. 76 pp., 4to (265 x 200 mm). Cloth-backed decorated boards. Condition: cover wear and soiling, some spotting of pages, lacking front free endpaper; presentation inscription on front endpaper. This elaborate laudatory tribute to the founder of the Bloshevik state consists of statements made by his notorious successor in Pravda and other sources between 1920 and 1932 was issued at the beginning of Stalin's purges. Rodchenko oversaw the design of this book while Stepanova served as its art editor.