Hymne National Sovietique

Paris: Editions Marcel Labbe, 1945. Authorized edition. Very good. Authorized edition; 13 3/4 x 10 1/2; pp. [4]; beige stock, illustrated and ruled in red; light dust-dulling; several nicks and cuts to fore-edge; a few, very faint, penciled-in notes throughout; overall in very good- condition.Aleksandr Aleksandrov (1883 - 1946) created the music and Sergei Mikhalkov (1913 - 2001) wrote the lyrics for the Soviet National Anthem, which was officially adopted on January 1, 1944. The current edition, handsomely illustrated with six red flags, bearing the hammer and sickle, and a star above them, contained the lyrics, in Russian and French, and the score, arranged for the accordion.