Russian revolution (20 Ergebnisse)

Small octavo (19.75cm.); original orange printed staplebound wrappers; 27pp. Fine.

12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 51pp. Minor wear; Very Good. On the role of unemployed councils in the Russian Revolution. Clearly intended to provide an analogue to current conditions in the Great Depression.

First edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers (softcover); 31p. Minor soil; pencil annotation to front cover.

12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated wrappers; 39pp. Mild dusting; Near Fine. Brief history of the Zerno Publishing House, the most prolific of the Bolshevik publishing enterprises in pre-Revolutionary Russia.

First edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial wrappers (softcover); 47p; illus. Pencil annotation to front cover, else fine. Report delivered to the 6th World Congress of the Young Communist International, October 1935 in Moscow, lauding the happiness and accomplishments of Soviet children. Photo-illustrated (uncredited), with striking modernist photomontage cover. …

2pp., 12mo. On single leaf. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Headings: 'Support Russia!', 'No Annexations and No Indemnities and the Right of Peoples to determine their own Government', 'Russia demands our practical sympathy, shall she have it?' and 'The Peace Negotiations could begin to-morrow'. The document begins: 'The British people have acclaimed the Russian Revolution. | The only honest praise is to support its Foreign Policy.' The second section begins: 'On July 20th [in fact 19 July 1917], by a majority of 214 to 116, the German Reichstag passed a Peace resolution supported by the Centre, the Progressive and Social Democrat Parties, as well as by the Alsace-Lorraine representatives.' It quotes a long passage from 'this remarkable declaration'. Scarce: no copies on OCLC WorldCat, or on COPAC.…

First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); deep green textured cloth over boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xxv,476pp; frontispiece and 73 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) and 15 inserted maps (one folding); one text illus. Ex-library copy, with Hill Library Saint Paul markings and stamps to spine, title page, and rear endpaper. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with upper marginal tear to p.149, gutter starting at p.160, and 3/4" tape mend p.375; Good. Thorough account of the AEF in Siberia, where the author served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Infantry, winning the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in battle. The book's final third is an enthusiastic description of Siberia's untapped economic potential. Channing aka Gross entered the Diplomatic Service following his discharge from the Army, serving as the U.S. Charges d'Affaires in Haiti until his death in a car accident in 1933. A somewhat hard-to-find account. [89160].…

1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 22 pages, 23 cm. In French. Title translates as, "The War, The Russian Revolution, and Zionism." "publie par le Bureau d'organisation sioniste a` Copenhague 1917." The Petrograd Conference was the "seventh national conference of the Russian Zionists and the first after the February 1917 Revolution. It opened on June 6, 1917. Five hundred and fifty-two delegates, representing 140,000 shekel holders from 680 cities and towns, took part in the conference. In the new Russia, the conference demonstrated the growing power of Zionism among Jewry and defined the Russian Zionists' attitude toward the problems of the World Zionist movement and the upbuilding of Erez Israel. It discussed the specific problems of the Russian Jews under the democratic regime with the hope of expanding the movement, which up to that time had acted mainly illegally. Jehiel Tschlenow [E.W. Tschlenow, this imprint's author] and Menahem Ussishkin were elected as presidents of the conference. In his programmatic address, Tschlenow said that the main task of the conference was to lay the foundations for Jewish national autonomy in Russia, as well as to emphasize the Jewish people's aspiration to return to Erez Israel. Ussishkin spoke of the need to immediately mobilize Jewish capital for settlement work, especially for the purchase of land, and to train pioneer workers. This seven-day conference was the last free countrywide expression of the Russian Zionist movement before the October Revolution of the same year became the starting point of its persecution and liquidation" (Arie Rafaeli-Zenziper in EJ). Tschlenow opens his speech with great hope and excitement at the recent revolution, welcoming the attendees "to this first meeting in free Russia, you who come to publicly proclaim the hope of our people yearning for liberty and rebirth, and who come to discuss our future work. Nowhere else, it seems to me, could we find, at present, such a resounding echo as in this city, where, barely three months ago, the heavy links of the chain that had bound the life of the immense Empire were broken. For about a century, since the glorious advent of the Decembrists, the invisible preliminary work had been underway.How much innocent blood was shed! In this blood, we are proud to note-there is also some of our own, Jewish blood. Well then, in this solemn moment, let us recall the memory of those who did not have the joy of greeting the present hour, this hour that makes up for all sorrows. Only three weeks have passed since Russia won its freedom and the Provisional Government, in cooperation with the Soldiers' and Workers' Council, washed away the stain that had defiled Russia for centuries. I am referring to the disgrace known as "the deprivation of the rights of the Jewish people." It seemed that this stain had become one with the very flesh of the Russian people and that only blood could remove it. Well, no. The great purifying torrent of the Revolution washed away the filth in a single stroke, irrevocably and without suffering. The sorrowful history of our people knows no other example of the destruction of such a vast ghetto, nor of a liberation established with such simplicity, on the one hand, and accepted with such dignity, on the other. We enthusiastically salute the Provisional Government and beg it to believe in our support and devotion to the heroic work of freedom and greatness for Russia that it has undertaken. On March 21st, the weight of a burden under which Russian Judaism had been collapsing was lifted. Our hands, so long chained, were freed. The immensity of space unfolded before our minds, before our eyes, still unaccustomed to such splendor. It is precisely at this moment that we, the Russian branch of the Jewish people, will be able, thanks to our accumulated strength and energy, to tackle the national edifice, the work of addressing the great national problems." He concludes: ".here are the walls of t.…

dj. First Edition. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 351pp. Fine, fresh, unmarked copy in lightly soiled jacket, Near Fine. Second volume in this series, which was planned to include "some two hundred volumes published in a dozen countries and a half-dozen different languages." Uncommon, especially in dustwrapper.…

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First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front end-paper: "To Mr. Edward L. Richie / with the compliments of the author," signed, dated December, 1920. 12mo (19cm). Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt with applied photographic illustration to front cover; vii, [1]-138pp; frontispiece and 31 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones); one folding map. Mild foxing to text, slight external wear; still a sound, complete copy, Very Good. Somewhat uncommon and very well-illustrated account of a journey across Siberia, Russia and Turkey, made in the immediate aftermath of WW1 and the Russian Revolution under the auspices of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. Beury, a West Virginia-born banker and philanthropist, would later serve as Temple University's second President (1925-41). Includes Beury's interpretation of the ascendance of the Bolsheviks, ".not the narrative of detailed happenings so much as the record of the movement as a whole, without an adequate understanding of which no one can justly appreciate Russia in transition.". Signed.…

First Edition. Octavo. Deep green textured cloth over boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xxv,476pp; frontispiece and 73 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) and 15 inserted maps (one folding); one text illus. A straight, tight, Very Good or better copy in the original publisher's cloth; a few pages of pencil marginalia, mostly to TOC. All plates and maps present. A thorough account of the AEF in Siberia, where the author served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Infantry, winning the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in battle. The book's final third is an enthusiastic description of Siberia's untapped economic potential. Channing aka Gross entered the Diplomatic Service following his discharge from the Army, serving as the U.S. Charges d'Affaires in Haiti until his death in a car accident in 1933. A somewhat hard-to-find account; this a quite nice copy.…

First Edition. Sole edition. Octavo. Blue ribbed cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece and nine inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A tight, Near Fine copy in the original cloth. Terpenning, a Michigan-trained sociologist, traveled to Russia in 1918 as a representative of the Y.M.C.A. but found his work interrupted by the ongoing civil war. His memoir covers a period of about two years spent among peasants along the Onega River front, some hundred kilometers south of the city of Archangel. Terpenning's account of the Russian peasantry is largely anecdotal, with observations on local religious and cultural customs; two chapters include eye-witness accounts of military activities at the front, the steady advance of the Bolsheviki, and the retreat of the ANREF. Illustrated from original photographs by the author. Quite a nice copy of a scarce and early Russian Revolution-era memoir.…

First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Original printed wrappers; 110pp. Mild external wear and toning, else complete, clean, and sound; Very Good. Main body of text entirely in Russian; second title page in English; appendix in Russian and English. An introduction to American higher education for recent Russian immigrants to the United States, many of whom were fleeing the ongoing Russian Civil War which had by some estimates displaced more than one million individuals from Russian-speaking regions. Appendix includes a list of "Main Agricultural & Technical Universities in the U.S." and a guide to the state branch offices of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. Scarce - OCLC notes only three physical holdings in the U.S. (NYPL, LAPL, Stanford).…

First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers, 32pp. Text in Ukrainian. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers, including brief chips and marginal tears. Text paper browned but not brittle; about Very Good. No publisher given, but rear wrapper advertises publications by "Iskra," the Russian revolutionary exile newspaper. Early, extremely uncommon up-to-the-minute account, for Ukrainian-American readers, of events in Russia during the October Revolution of 1917. Unlocated in OCLC or KVK; not held by the State or National Libraries, Moscow; we find a single institutional copy only at the Ukrainian National Library, Kiev.…

First Edition. First impression. Lithographed poster, 84cm x 63.5cm (ca 33" x 25"); printed in black on thin white stock. Light original wear and soil, still Near Fine. Professionally laid down on archival canvas. A plea to workers to provide material support to Bolshevik troops during the dark days of the Russian Civil War. Dmitri Moor (1883-1946; aka Dmitri Orlov) was one of the leading Russian innovators in graphic design during the Revolutionary period, producing dozens of poster designs as well as satirical cartoons and book illustrations.…

First Edition. First impression. Lithographed poster, 88.5cm x 61cm (ca 35" x 24"); printed in black and red on thin cream stock. Light original wear and soil, including a few ink smudges that appear to be from printing; a few tiny mended tears in margins, still Near Fine. Professionally laid down on archival canvas. A celebration of the anniversary of the October Revolution, issued during the Russian Civil War. Dmitri Moor (1883-1946; aka Dmitri Orlov) was one of the leading Russian innovators in graphic design during the Revolutionary period, producing dozens of poster designs as well as satirical cartoons and book illustrations.…

After the February Revolution and abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, Kerensky, as Minister of War, was the dominant figure in the provisional government that held power until overthrown by the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. According to Semion Lyandres, 'The Fall of Tsarism', along with Lev Stepanovich Tugan-Baranovskii and G. N. Tumanov, Captain G. A. Iakubovich 'belonged to the troika of Kerenskii's most trusted military aides during his tenure in the Provisional Government'. 4pp., foolscap 8vo. First page headed: 'Council of Peasants' Delegates. | 24th. May 1917. | Speech of the Under Minister for War. | (Colonel Iakubovitch)'. Clearly an official British document, and apparently unpublished. Carbon typescript on four leaves, held together by a brass stud. Aged and creased, with last leaf detached from rest. With two hurried manuscript notes in blue pencil, difficult to decipher: the first at head of first page, 'Circulate 18/51 V'; the second at foot of last page: 'Return to Lt Reeves'. Divided into six sections, under headings: 'To refuse to advance is to wreck the revolution', 'Technique, foodstuffs and fodder', 'Disorder on the rail\ways', 'Ranks of the army filled', 'Entrenched soldiers and entrenched officers' and 'The ranks of the army require filling up'. The first section begins: 'I have come here to explain what the Provisional Government understands by the word "advance". The Government has stated that it renounces all forms of annexation and contribution. But at the same time NOT TO ADVANCE IS TO WRECK THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND INJURE THE FREEDOM OF THE WHOLE WORLD. | Our enemies place a very low value on the strength of the Russian army and are convinced that the army has dissolved and is no longer capable of advancing. | At the War Ministry we have accurate information of the enemy's recent withrawals from our front. THEY HAVE WITHDRAWN NOT ONLY MEN BUT GUNS. And to what does all this lead. Once and for all you must realize that IF THE ALLIES ARE CRUSHED BY GERMANY THE LATTER WILL NOT FORGET TO SETTLE WITH US. How can we assist our Allies? Only by advancing.' The report includes references to: 'disgraceful incidents' on the railway ('Soldiers have thrown station-masters and railway servants out of the windows of moving trains'; 'Desertion' ('a symptom apparent to all. I cannot now give you the exact figures, but they run into several million'; 'soldiers who have dug themselves in at the rear'; 'soldiers who called up in 1914', who 'have not once been in the trenches'. It concludes: 'You see, comrades, what is now happening in the army. I will not attempt to prescribe a cure for this incredible complaint. Your wisdom will tell us what must be done, and the Minister for War awaits the voice of the representatives of the free land the voice of the peasantry. (Storm of applause)'.…

Lithograph in three colors; printed recto-only on thin lithographic paper; 83cm x 60cm (ca 32" x 24"). Small (1") loss to left margin (away from image); darkening and toning to extremities; image clean, red portions slightly faded, as usual; grade B+/B. A celebrated work by one of the major propaganda artists of the revolutionary period, produced for the Polish campaign of 1920. Pictured in Stephen White, The Bolshevik Poster, p.98. Rare (only one copy noted at auction in the past 20 years) and a high-spot in the history of revolutionary graphics.…

ORIGINAL-VERTAG (1 S gr. 4° mit schön lithographiertem Briefkopf Société des Films ALBATROS ) mit Ort, Datum, eigenhändiger Unterschrift in Tinte signiert Paris, 15.V.1934 Bestätigung einer Auszahlung für die Filmrechten des Films ?La Porteuse de Pain?; dazu noch eine masch. geschr. Begleitschreiben vom ?Albatros?- Bureau (1934) über ?La Porteuse de Pain?; zusammen (TLS 1934, 1 page, on stationary of the ?Société des Films ?Albatros?, to confirm a payment for the film rights of the film ?La Porteuse de Pain?; added another secretarial TLS from the bureau of ?Albatros? (1934) on ?La Porteuse de Pain?; together .) ( Les Films Albatros , Production Albatros , Société des Film Albatros oder schlicht Albatros war der Name einer französischen Stummfilm - Produktionsgesellschaft . Sie wurde 1922 von den beiden Exil- Belarussen Alexander Kamenka (1888?1969) und Joseph N. Ermolieff gegründet und bestand bis zum Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs .).…