Obshchekazachii Zhurnal. Organ Nezavisimoi Kazach'ei Mysli (Vol. 6, No. 12 and Vol. 7, No. 14) [The All Cossacks Journal]

Farmingdale, NJ: The World Cossacks Association, Inc., 1951. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 68, [12] and pp. 108 respectively; illustrated blue and yellow wraps; a few rubbed spots to spine; minor nicks to corners; penciled-in notes on some pages of No. 12; a few smudged fingerprints to edges, else text clean; illustrated with political cartoons and drawings; very good. In Russian with preface in English.The World Cossack Association was established in late 1946 in New Jersey by Cossacks who had fled Russia after Czar Nicholas II’s abdication in 1917. By the early 1950s the community in Lakewood had considerably grown and was actively assisting displaced persons entering the United States from DP camps in Austria and Germany and purchasing hundreds of acres of remote forest land in order to resettle the wave of compatriots. The community was formally recognized in 1953 and named New Kuban after the Kuban region in the North Caucasus, where many of the families had lived. The first issue of 'The All Cossacks Journal' was published in 1946 and ran until 1954. It contained news from the motherland, original poems and short stories, political and cultural discussions and articles, and cartoons mocking the Russian Government, the Iron Curtain, etc.