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Button made in the BDR in the early 1980’s. Purpose of the button is partly unknown. The text on the button reads:”All Guns Against The Dictatorship”. Could be about the Iran-Iraq war but this is unlikely. Probably the button is aimed against Saddam Hussein who was against the Communist Party in Iraq. The Iraqi Communist Party is a political party in Iraq and founded in 1934. The party has played a fundamental role in shaping the political history of Iraq between its foundation and the 70s. The party was involved in many important national revolts and demonstrations in the 40s and 50. The party has heavily suffered from repressive regimes From the Ba’ath party and Saddam Hussein, but remained an important element of the Iraqi opposition, and was a pronounced opponent of the United Nations sanctions against Iraq after the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Also the party resisted the US invasion in Iraq in 2003.
Price: 25.00 euro Size: 20.5×14.5cm./8×5.7inch. Weight: 182gr./6.4oz. Year: 1986 Pages: 172 Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyong Yang, Korea
Book made in North Korea, 1986. The writer Genaro Carnero Checa was a revolutionary journalist from Peru and devoted his work for strenghtening friendship and solidarity between North Korea and Latin America. He visited North Korea 7 times and met Kim Il Sung. In adoration of Kim Il Sung he began to work on the book “The 70th. Spring” for celebrating the 70th. birthday of Kim Il Sung and would present the book to him. After Genaro died of a incurable illness his wife, according to his will, finished the book.
Price: 7.50 euro Size: 20.5x13cm./8.5.1inch. Weight: 210gr./7.4oz. Year: 1990 Pages: 258 Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyong Yang, Korea
Book made in North Korea, 1990. It is the writings of a man and his family who fled South Korea to settle in North Korea. From the book:”During my exile from the disgraceful society of South Korea, I visited the north on several occasions and saw with my own eyes that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not only the epitome of an independent nation but also a land of bliss wich has previously been concieved of by humanity only as an ideal. My excitement at this discovery was probably stronger than that of Columbus on discovering the New World”.
Price: 25.00 euro Size: 28x22cm./11×8.6inch. Weight: 301gr./10.6oz. Year: 1982 Pages: 79 Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyong Yang, Korea
Book made in North Korea, 1982. Intresting and rare book about the International Friendship Exhibition. It is made in the English and Russian language. From the book:”The International Friendship Exhibition is located on Mt. Myohyang, one of the five famous mountains in Korea. On display there are gifts presented to the respected leader President Kim Il Sung by Party and government leaders, public workers and people of various sections in over 120 countries”.
Price: 22.50 euro Size: 25.5×18.5cm./10.7.2inch. Weight: 206gr./7.2oz. Year: 1982 Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyong Yang, Korea
Book made in North Korea, 1982. Picture book about the Kim Il Sung university. The book is made in the English and Russian language. The Kim Il-sung University, founded on 1 October 1946, is the first university built in North Korea. It is located on a 15-hectare (37-acre) campus in Pyongyang, the nation’s capital. Along with the main academic buildings, the campus contains 10 separate offices, 50 laboratories, libraries, museums, a printing press, an R&D centre, dormitories and a hospital. There is a sizeable computer lab, but it has only limited internet access. The university is named in honour of Kim Il-sung, the founder and first supreme leader of North Korea. Kim Il-sung University has around 16,000 enrolled students, and provides courses in the fields of social sciences, law, arts and sciences. Courses in both the department of social sciences and the department of natural sciences take five years to complete.
Price: 22.50 euro Size: 24.5x21cm./9.6×8.2inch. Weight: 195gr./6.8oz. Year: 1984 Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyong Yang, Korea
Book made in North Korea, 1984. It is about the Kim Il Sung stadium and very rich in pictures. The book is written in English and French. The Kim Il-sung Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea. The stadium is used primarily for association football matches. Kim Il-sung Stadium was originally named the Girimri Stadium in 1926. This stadium held the annual Kyung-Pyong Football Match between Kyungsung FC and Pyongyang FC during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. After the division of Korea, it was used as a venue for speeches by politicians. On 14 October 1945, it was the site of Kim Il-sung’s victory speech after the liberation of Pyongyang, called “Every Effort for the Building of a New Democratic Korea.” Most of the stadium was destroyed during the 1950-1953 Korean War, mostly by U.S. aerial bombing of the capital city during those years. Rebuilt in 1969, it was then called Moranbong Stadium, but in April 1982 it was renovated and renamed in honour of Kim Il-sung. It is used mainly for football matches, and until the 1990s hosted the mass games (now held in Rungnado May Day Stadium).
Matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union, 1956. They were made for the first Spartakiad games after WWII. The Spartakiad (or Spartakiade) was an international sports event that was sponsored by the Soviet Union. Five international Spartakiades were held from 1928 to 1937. Later Spartakiads were organized as national sport events of the Eastern Bloc countries. The games were organised by Red Sport International. The Soviet Union attempted to use Spartakiads to both oppose and supplement the Olympics. The name, derived from the name of the slave rebel leader, Spartacus was intended to symbolize proletarian internationalism. The event was held twice in four years: Winter Spartakiad and Summer Spartakiad. The number of participants was 90 million people, including 8,300 Masters of Sports of the USSR, and 20 million in the 3rd Winter Spartakiad.
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1959. The text on the label reads:”Folk Crafts Dymkovo Toys”. Dymkovo toys, also known as the Vyatka Toys or Kirov Toys are moulded painted clay figures of people and animals. It is one of the old Russian folk art handicrafts, which still exists in the village of Dymkovo near Kirov (former Vyatka). Traditionally, the Dymkovo toys are made by women.
Button probably made in the Netherlands. The button was obtained by somebody during a Dutch demonstration around 1980. The text reads:”Salam or Salaam. Wich means “Peace”.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1990. The stamp was made for the Spring Friendship Art Festival. In 1982 they started the festival on the 15th of april wich is the birth date of Kim Il Sung the first leader of North Korea. Also around the 15th of april the most important holiday of the year starts: The Day Of The Sun. Kim Il Sung has long been identified with the sun and is frequently called Sun of the Nation. He adopted his name Il Sun meaning “become the sun”. The festival is designed to promote independence, peace and friendship through various art performances also from different country’s around the world.
Performance at the April Spring Friendship Art Festival.
April Spring Friendship Art Festival.
Women carry a flag of the April Spring People’s Art Festival to raise it on the stage at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater in Pyongyang, North Korea. Portraits in the background show Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1990, for celebrating the 48th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jong Il. Pictured on the stamp is the lodge were Kim Jong Il was born in 1942.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1990. The image of the stamp shows the anti Japanese slogan trees. During the Japanese occupation of Korea, Kim Il Sung was staging his resistance in the forests. In these forest anti Japanese slogans was carved into the trees. Many of them have been preserved with glass surrounding the trees.
Book published in Yugoslavia, 1975 about Tito. Very rich illustrated book wich lots of pictures. Beautiful propaganda book. The titel of the book reads:”We Are Tito, Tito Is Us”. Josip Broz Tito was president of Yugoslavia and during World War II he was leader of the partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. Tito was president of the Yugoslav republic for 27 years, from 1953 untill 1980 when he died. After World War II Yugoslavia became quickly a communist state. Tito was originally one of the most trusted people of Stalin. But in 1948 their friendship was for the most part over because Tito would not transform Yugoslavia in a Moscow controled satellite state. Yugoslavie continued being a communist state though. And had relationships with both Soviet Union and western capitalist country’s. Tito was his nickname meaning Marshall.
Book published in the Netherlands, 1962. Beautiful illustratied book. The titel reads:”Second Declaration By Havana”. The first declaration, proclaimed September 1960, calls for “the right of the peasants to the land; the right of the workers to the fruit of their labor; and the right of nations to nationalize the imperialist monopolies.” The second declaration, February 1962, calls for continent-wide revolutionary struggle. “What does the Cuban revolution teach?” it asks. “That revolution is possible.”
Book printed in The Netherlands, 1956, with Karl Marx’s Communist Manifest. In the dutch language. This is the 6th. edition. Inside teh book there is a note wich reads:”Offered on the occasion of your joining the Communist Party Netherlands”. The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world’s most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism’s potential future forms.
Book printed in The Netherlands, 1963, with Karl Marx’s Communist Manifest. In the dutch language. This is the 8th. edition. You can tell this book has been studied because there are some markings in the book. The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world’s most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism’s potential future forms.
Book publiced in the DDR, 1976. The titel reads:”Manifest Of The Communist Party” or “Communist Manifesto”. The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world’s most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism’s potential future forms.
Book printed in The Netherlands, 1946. Book with works of Lenin. Third edition. The titel of the book reads:”Imperialism As The Highest Stage Of Capitalism”.
Book printed in The Netherlands, 1946. This book is quite intresting because on the cover and inside the book there are stamps from the Communist Party Netherlands (CPN), the stamps reads:”CPN Library Party Leaders”. The book conatins work from Friedrich Engels. The titel of the book reads:”Development Of Socialism From Utopia To Science”.
Book printed in The Netherlands, 1946. This is a third pressing of a translation from Russia from a Russian publication in 1938. The titel of the book reads:”The leftwing movement is a disease of communism”.
Book made in The Netherlands, 1992. This book looks like a North Korean published book with a dutch translation but is in fact a dutch publication and not North Korean. The titel of the book reads:”The historical lesson in building socialism and the direction of our Party”. From the book:”A report to senior officials of the Central Committee of the Workers Party Of Korea”.
Book printed in The Netherlands, 1972, with Karl Marx’s Communist Manifest. The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world’s most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism’s potential future forms.
Book made in China, 1967, third edition. In commemoration of the 20th. anniversary of victory in the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japan. “Long Live The Victory Of The People’s War!” was first published in “Renmin Riboa” (People’s Daily) in 1965 on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. The English edition follwos the Chinese text as published in Renmin Riboa.
Book made in China during the Cultural revolution, 1953. First Edition. In the book there is a report delivered at a conference of Party activists held at Wayaopao after a meeting with the Central Committee in 1935. The Political Bureau meeting, one of the most important ever held by the Party Centre, refuted the mistaken viewin the Party of the imposibility for the Chinese national bourgeoisie to join forces with the Chinese workers and peasants to resist Japan, and decided on the tactics of building up a national united front. This english translation has been made from a Chinese text from the second edition of the Slected Works Of Mao Zedong, Volume 1, published in 1952.
Book made in China during the Cultural revolution, 1956. First Edition. In the book there is a outline of a report made at a meeting of Party activists in 1937. This english translation has been made from a Chinese text from the second edition of the Slected Works Of Mao Zedong, Volume 2, published in 1952.
Book made in China during the Cultural revolution, 1956. First Edition. The question of agricultural co-operation is a report delivered by Mao Zedong at a meeting of secretaries of provincial, municipal and autonomous region committees of the Communist Party of China in 1955.
Book made in China during the Cultural revolution, 1955. First Edition. In the book there is a speech at a cadre’s meeting in Yenan. This english translation has been made from a Chinese text from the first edition of the Slected Works Of Mao Zedong, Volume 3, published in 1953.
Book made in China during the Cultural revolution, 1956. First Edition. This article was written in 1926 to combat two deviations then existing in the Party-Right oppertunism reresented by Ch’en Tu-hsiu and “Left” oppertunism represented by Chang Kuo-t’ao. One paid attention only to the Kuomintang-Communist co-operation and the other only to the labour movement, but both forgot the peasants. This english translation has been made from a Chinese text from the second edition of the Slected Works Of Mao Zedong, Volume 1, published in 1952.
Book made in China during the Cultural revolution, 1953. First Edition. This article, original titled “Political problems and the tasks of the Party organization in the border area”, is part of the resolution drawn upfor the Second Party Congress of the Hunan-Kiangsi border area. This english translation has been made from a Chinese text from the second edition of the Slected Works Of Mao Zedong, Volume 1, published in 1952.
Book made in China during the Cultural revolution. First Edition. This is a report to the Central Committee’s plenary session (the sixth since the Party’s sixth national congress). The meeting was of a great importance because it endorsed the line of the Party’s Central Political Bureau headed by Comrade Mao Zedong. In this report the question was raised in order to enable all comrades in the Party to understand the Party’s great historical responsibility of leading the anti Japanese war. This english translation has been made from a Chinese text from the first edition of the Slected Works Of Mao Zedong, Volume 2, published in 1952.
Book made in China during the Cultural revolution. First Edition. The book is ar eport delivered at the national conference of the Communist Party Of China , held in Yenan, in 1937. This english translation has been made from a Chinese text from the second edition of the Slected Works Of Mao Zedong, Volume 1, published in 1952.
Book made in China, 1984. . It contains the selected works of Liu Shaoqi volume 1 translated in English. The selcted works of Deng Xiaoping came in three volumes. This is volume 2. Volume 1 is a collection of 39 articles and speeches of Deng Xiaoping during the period from 1965 to 1983, most of which were never published before. Volume 2 focuses on the works during the period from 1975 to 1982. The second edition of Volume 2 is supplemented with 14 articles, most of which are published for the first time. The supplement is about Deng’s thoughts on building the socialism with Chinese characteristics raised in the 1970s and the beginning of 1980s. Volume 3 comprises 119 speeches and articles during the period from September in 1982 to February in 1992, most of which are published for the first time.
Book made in China, 1984. It contains the selected works of Liu Shaoqi volume 1 translated in English. Of this series there is a volume 1 and volume 2. Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969) was a Chinese revolutionary, politician, and theorist. He was Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee from 1954 to 1959, First Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1956 to 1966 and Chairman of the People’s Republic of China, the de jure head of state, from 1959 to 1968, during which he implemented policies of economic reconstruction in China. For 15 years, Liu was the third most powerful man in China, behind only Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. Originally groomed as Mao’s successor, Liu antagonized him in the early 1960s before the Cultural Revolution. From 1966 onward, Liu was criticized and then purged by Mao. In 1968, Liu disappeared from public life and was labelled a traitor to the revolution. He died under harsh treatment during the Cultural Revolution, but was posthumously rehabilitated by Deng Xiaoping’s government in 1980 and granted a national memorial service.
Liu Shaoqi in June 1966, the first year of the Cultural Revolution
Book from North Korea made in 1976. This is a book made in the French Language. The titel:”Le glorieux chemin parcouru par l’union de la jeunesse travailleue socialiste de coree sous la direction eclairee du camarade Kim Il Sung, Grand Leader” reads:”The glorious path traveled by the Association of the Socialist Worker of Korea under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung”.
Book made in North Korea, 1969. Beautiful book with images. From the book:”The Great Leader of the 40 million Korean people, Comrade Kim Il Sung, peerles patriot, national hero, ever-victorious, iron-willed, brilliant commander and one of the outstanding leaders of the international communist and working class movement, has devoted his all to the struggle for the freedom and hapiness of the people of the victory of the revolution to this day for more then 40 years ever since the set out on the revolutionary struggle in his early years”.
Book made in North Korea, 1970. From the book:”Report on the work of the central committee to the third congress of the Worker’s Party of Korea, November 2, 1970″.
Book made in North Korea, 1977. From the book:”Report on the work of the central committee to the third congress of the Worker’s Party of Korea, April 23, 1956″.
Old book from North Korea made in 1961. It features the economic development from 1946-1960 with a lot of graphics, overviews and statistics. On the last page of the book there is a map of Korea.
Book made in North Korea, 2017. This is part I in the Understanding Korea information series. This part deals with the toerism and investment in Korea.