We have listed a bunch of Shakhmatny Bulletins. This is Shakhmatny v. CCCP, or Chess in the USSR. The magazines are very different. "Bulletin" is from the Central Chess Club in Moscow, and is not the official organ of the Chess Federation of the Soviet Union, which "USSR" is, and "USSR" is published by the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sport--in other words, "USSR" is an organ of the Communist state. That can be seen in the substance. "Bulletin" is almost all chess, with 200 or so unannotated games. "USSR" is almost all articles, all laudatory--bad results by Soviet players never appear in the pages. On the other hand, "USSR" does publish articles by Western grandmasters--there are some by Bent Larsen in the collection we are selling off. That is significant--after Fischer, the Soviet Chess bosses considered Larsen to be the chief threat to the Soviet ownership of the world championship.
You also find more photographs, cartoons, even poetry. A few issues have articles on Shashki, the 10 x 10 form of checkers so popular in the USSR.
Shakhmatny-in-English is the product of an enterprising American, Hanon Russell, who translated original numbers of Chess in the USSR into English, then typed them up, included the original photographs, and printed them up. The only real problem here is the type face. I'm guessing that Mr. Russell went with 8 point Pica font to save space and thus money; at 16 pages, this is half the size of the original Chess In the USSR magazine. Still, it's a unique contribution to chess literature.
This is the translation of the July, 1967 original.
For contents, please see photographs. English Descriptive notation.