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‎Ekonomicheskie etyudy i stati. [i.e. Economic Studies and Essays]. - [LENIN'S FIRST BOOK]‎

‎S.-Petersburg, 1899 [recte October 1898]. 8vo. Bound in an excellent newer red half morocco in perfect contemporary style, with five raised bands and gilt author and year to spine. Marbled edges and beautiful marbled en-papers. Old owner's stamps to title-page (""Biblioteka Aleksandova, S. 1873 F."", ""Iz knig Avrutina M.V."", and the number ""21162""), otherwise also internally very nice and clean. (4), 290 pp.‎

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‎Very rare first edition of Lenin's first published book, the seminal miscellany of his economic papers, which constitute the first outline of his revolutionary ideas. The work consists in five economic essays/studies, four of which are published here for the first time (""The Handicraft Census of 1894-95 in Perm Gubernia and General Problems of ""Handicraft"" Industry"""" ""Gems of Narodnik Project-Mongering"""" ""The Heritage We Renounce"" - all three written in exile in 1897 - and ""On the Question of Our Factory Statistics"", written in 1898), and one of which (""A Characterisation of Economic Romanticism"") had been published the previous year, in installments, in the magazine Novoye Slovo, April-July 1897. Before the present publication, only very few of Lenin's papers and articles had been published, and none of them in book form. The present publication brings to light Lenin's elaboration of the tasks of the Russian Marxists (both as to their programme, their tactics, and the organization as such) (""The Heritage We Renounce"") and gives us the basis for his take on Marxism. Much of the original material published here was used by Lenin, both directly (e.g. the ""Handicraft Census"") and indirectly (forming a basis for the work) in his later published book ""The Development of Capitalim in Russia"" (1899), which established his reputation as a Marxist theorist. Furthermore, the present publication constitutes Lenin's earliest economic writings directed against the Narodniks. As a whole, the present publication gives us the first rounded picture of Leninist thought and provides us with the basis for Leninist economics and politics. That which Lenin develops in the present studies and essays forms the basis for the capitalist and Marxist thought that he is later to present and which becomes the standard introduction to the Russian economy for later generations of Marxists. The work is of great scarcity and was presumably printed in very small numbers. ‎

‎V. I. Lenin o literature i iskusstve. In Russian /V. I. Lenin on Literature a...‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. V. I. Lenin on Literature and Art. Moscow: Art Lit., 1976. V. I. Lenin o literature i iskusstve. In Russian /V. I. Lenin on Literature and Art. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6939046‎

‎Lenin i professional'noe dvizhenie. In Russian /Lenin and the Professional Mo...‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Lenin and the Professional Movement. Moscow: Moscow State Council of Trade Unions, 1924. Lenin i professional'noe dvizhenie. In Russian /Lenin and the Professional Movement. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9114058‎

‎Novyi fabrichnyi zakon. (Russian - i.e. ""New Factory Law""). - [THE TURNING POINT FOR THE MARXIST MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA]‎

‎Zeneva [Geneva], Tipografiâ ""Soûza Russkih' Social'demokratov"", 1899. Small8vo. In the original printed wrappers. A very fine and clean copy. (1)-52 pp.‎

‎Scarce first appearance of Lenin's important and influential analysis and commentary on the New Factory law of June 2nd 1897. Written by Lenin in Exile in 1897 and published two years later in Geneva, the present pamphlet marks the turning point for the Marxist movement in Russia: ""The Marxist underground had won a remarkable moral victory [In lowering the working hours to eleven and half hour per day]. What had hitherto appeared as a harmless, even anachronistic doctrine in such a backward country as Russia, was now seen as a threat of intimidating dimensions."" (Akimov, on the Dilemmas of Russian Marxism 1895-1903).""Despite continuous repression, which landed many experienced revolutionaries in exile, the movement helped provoke and organize massive strikes in St. Petersburg in 1896 and 1897, leading many manufacturers unilaterally to shorten the regular workday in their factories to eleven and a-half hour. The government extended this concession to the whole country in a law of 2 june 1897. Henceforth, however, the government would deal with strike instigators largely by administrative means, not in the regular courts. The Police Department would also pay far more attention to the labor movement"" (Lieven, The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. 2). The fact that the autocracy had been seen to capitulate to the demands of a section of the Russian people was something almost unique in Russian history. This lesson was not lost upon Lenin and in the present work Lenin pointed out repeatedly that it was only due to the determined initiative of the St. Peterburg workers that legal concession for all workers was secured: ""It was only by struggle, by a conscious and staunch struggle, that the workers secured passage of this law. Only by struggle will they be able to secure the actual enforcement of the law and its enforcement in the interests of the workers. Without a stubborn struggle, without a staunch resistance of the united workers to every claim the employers make, the new law will remain a scrap of paper"" (From the present publication).A major theme of Lenin's writings prior to 1905 was concerned with factory legislation, the present publication by far being the most important.‎

‎Lenin o spetsakh. In Russian /Lenin on the Specialists ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Lenin on Specialists. Moscow: Labor and the Book, 1924. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9139717‎

‎The Development Of Capitalism In Russia. The Process Of A Home Market For Large-Scale Industry. - [FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION]‎

‎Moscow, Foreign Language Publishing House, 1956. 8vo. Original full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Library stamps to title page. ""C2"" written to lower part of spine. XVI, 751 pp.‎

‎First English translation of Lenin's work from 1899 written whilst he was in exile in Siberia. The present translation is made from Lenin's Works, Vol. 3, 4th Russian edition.It was published in 1899 under the pseudonym of ""Vladimir Ilyin"" it established his reputation as a major Marxist theorist. In it Lenin attacked the Populist claim that Russia could avoid the stage of capitalism, and that the rural commune could serve as the basis for communism. Instead Lenin argued that the rural communes had already been wiped out by capitalism and statistics showed the degree to which feudalism was already dying in Russia.‎

‎Nieopublikowane materialy doreczone delegatom XX Zjazd KPZR (Polish, i.e.: Unpublished Materials Delivered to the Delegates of the 20th CPSU Congress). - [ THE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS THAT LED TO KHRUSHCHEV'S SECRET SPEECH]‎

‎Warszawa, March (presumably 27th, but no later than 31st) 1956. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With ""Wylacznie do uzytku organizacji partyjnych"" (""Exclusively for inner-party use"") printed to top of front wrapper. Stamped serial number to front wrapper: 0563. Some creases to spine and corners of wrappers and a tear to the back wrapper. Title-page a little cleased and with two small marginal holes caused by the original clips. All in all a fairly well preserved copy. 32 pp. ‎

‎Extremely rare first printing thus (presumably the first printing at all, and definitely the first separate printing), printed for private circulation only (""exclusively for inner-party use""), of the previously unpublished materials that led to one of the most important moments of 20th century politics, namely Khrushchev's so-called ""Secret Speech"", also known as the ""Khrushchev Report"". This seminal speech was delivered at an unpublicized closed session of Communist Party delegates, with guests and members of the press excluded. The ""Unpublished materials"" contain Lenin's ""Testament"", Lenin's ""On the National Question"", and Stalin's notes.The speech itself appeard in two different printings. As the present publication, those the two printings of the speech also bear the date March 1956 and all three publications were ordered by the Polish communist party authorities in the span of March 27 - March 31. The extremely scarce first printing of the speech consisted in 71 pages, namely Khrushchev's speech with the recorded interjections and ovations"" the second printing, which appered four days later, consisted of 96 pages, was edited to give only Khrushchev's speech (without the recorded interjections and ovations), but containing also a second part, ""Unpublished materials"" with Lenin's ""Testament"", Lenin's ""On the National Question"", and Stalin's notes.The present publication constitutes the ""Unpublished materials"" alone, with a separate pagination (pp. 1-32, including a title-page) - exactly the same material as pp. 71-(96) of the second printing of the speech from March 31st, but here published separately, with its own title-page. Thus, the present publication was most likely published at the same time as the first printing of Khrushchev's Speech, March 27th, and meant to be an accompaniment to this. And later, it was thus incorporated into the edited second edition of the speech and publised after that, as pp. 71-(96). Khrushchev' Speech shook the Western world and changed our history for good. ""Its consequences, by no means fully foreseen by Khrushchev, shook the Soviet Union to the core, but even more so its communist allies, notably in central Europe. Forces were unleashed that eventually changed the course of history. But at the time, the impact on the delegates was more immediate. Soviet sources now say some were so convulsed as they listened that they suffered heart attacks"" others committed suicide afterwards."" (John Rettie, in The Observer, Sunday 26 February 2006 ).On February 24, 1956 before assembled delegates at a secret session of the Communist Party's Twentieth Congress, Nikita Khrushchev delivered his so-called ""Secret Speech"", denouncing Stalin for his transgressions. The public session of the 20th Congress had come to a formal end on 24 February 1956 when word was spread to delegates to return to the Great Hall of the Kremlin for an additional ""closed session,"" to which journalists, guests, and delegates from ""fraternal parties"" from outside the USSR were not invited. Special passes were issued to those eligible to participate, with an additional 100 former Party members, recently released from the Soviet prison camp network. The speech was thus secretly held in this closed session, without discussion, and it was neither published as part of the congress' proceedings nor reported in the Soviet press. The speech that sent shock waves through the congress participants denounced Stalin, describing him as satanic despot and terrorist who had committed the greatest of crimes. Quoting from correspondence, memoranda and his own observations, Khrushchev gave details of Stalin's horrible actions during the Terror of the late 1930'ies, the unpreparedness of the country at the time of the Nazi invasion in June 1941, numerous wartime blunders, the deportation of various nationalities in 1943 and 1944, and the banishing of Tito's Yugoslavia from the Soviet bloc after the war. Absolving the party itself of these grave actions, Khrushchev attributed them to the ""cult of personality"" that Stalin encouraged and his ""violations of socialist legality"". According to Khrushchev's speech, Stalin was a tyrant, a murderer and torturer of party members.Khrushchev gave his grim tale of the obscene crimes committed by his predecessor, Josef Stalin, only three years after the death of Stalin, who was then celebrated as a great leader and whose death was mourned by the great majority of Soviet citizens, who saw him as a divine father. It is no wonder that this lengthy speech from their new leader completely shocked Soviet communists, being told so soon after his death that far from far from being divine, their hero Stalin was actually outright satanic. The leaders who inherited the party from the old dictator had agreed - after months of furious argument - that Khrushchev should make the speech, but on the condition that it should never be published.Khrushchev read from a prepared report and no stenographic record of the closed session was kept. No questions or debate followed Khrushchev's presentation, and it is reported that delegates left the hall in a state of complete disorientation. It is even said that several delegates suffered heart attacks and that some even committed suicide upon listening to the horrifying speech. On the evening of the congress, delegates of foreign Communist parties were called to the Kremlin and given the opportunity to read the prepared text of the Khrushchev speech, which was treated as a top secret state document. Reports of the speech soon reached the West and as early as March the contents were reported in Western media. ""The content of the speech reached the west through a circuitous route. A few copies of the speech were sent by order of the Soviet Politburo to leaders of the Eastern Bloc countries. Shortly after the speech had been disseminated, a Polish journalist, Viktor Grayevsky, visited his girlfriend, Lucia Baranowski, who worked as a junior secretary in the office of the first secretary of the Polish Communist Party, Edward Ochab. On her desk was a thick booklet with a red binding, with the words: ""The 20th Party Congress, the speech of Comrade Khrushchev."" Grayevsky had heard rumors of the speech and, as a journalist, was interested in reading it. Baranowski allowed him to take the document home to read.As it happened, Grayevsky, who was Jewish, and had made a recent trip to Israel to visit his sick father, decided to emigrate there. After he read the speech, he decided to take it to the Israeli Embassy and gave it to Yaakov Barmor who had helped Grayevsky make his trip to visit Grayevsky's sick father. Barmor was a Shin Bet representative"" he photographed the document and sent the photographs to Israel. By the afternoon of April 13, 1956, the Shin Bet in Israel received the photographs. Israeli intelligence and United States intelligence had previously secretly agreed to cooperate on security matters. James Jesus Angleton was the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) head of counterintelligence and in charge of the clandestine liaison with Israeli intelligence. The photographs were delivered to him. On April 17, 1956, the photographs reached the CIA chief Allen Dulles, who quickly informed U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. After determining that the speech was authentic, the CIA leaked the speech to The New York Times in early June.""""In the West, the impact of the speech received a colossal boost from the publication of the full, albeit sanitised, text in The Observer and the New York Times. This was the first time the full text had been available for public scrutiny anywhere in the world. Even local party secretaries who read it to members had to return their texts within 36 hours. (Those texts were also sanitised, omitting two incidents in the speech that Orlov related to me.)According to William Taubman, in his masterly biography of Khrushchev, the full text leaked out through Poland where, like other central European communist allies, Moscow had sent an edited copy for distribution to the Polish party."" (John Rettie, in The Observer, Sunday 26 February 2006).The speech sent shock waves throughout the Communist world and caused many Western Communists to abandon the movement. In central Europe, the impact of the speech was enormous. By autumn Poland was ready to explode and in Hungary an anti-communist revolution overthrew the Stalinist party and government, replacing them with the short-lived reformist Imre Nagy.""Some may doubt that Stalin's Soviet Union could ever have been reformed, but Khrushchev was not among them - and neither, indeed, was Gorbachev. But after two decades of decay under Brezhnev, even he could not hold the country together. It can well be argued that the 'secret speech' was the century's most momentous, planting the seed that eventually caused the demise of the USSR."" (John Rettie, in The Observer, Sunday 26 February 2006).It was in the form of the second printing of the speech, with the ""Unpublished Materials"" in their presumably second printing, that it was leaked behind the Iron Curtain. Allegedly the CIA offered USD 1.000.000 for a copy, before they came into possession of the text through other channels. Khrushchev himself stated: ""It was supposed to have been secret, but in fact it was far from being secret.. our document fell into the hands of some Polish comrades who were hostile towards the Soviet Union. They used my speech for their own purposes and made copies of it. I was told that it was being sold for very little.""Like the two impressions of the Speech, on with the ""Unpublished Matrials"", almost all the copies of this extremely scarce publication - which were all numbered and strictly registered - were withdrawn and destroyed after 11 April 1956. We have been able to locate no copies of either impression outside of Poland and can find no copies registered in OCLC. ‎

‎Sbornik proizvedeniy V.I. Lenina. In Russian /Compilation of Works by V.I. Le...‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Compilation of works by V.I. Lenin. Moscow: Politizdat, 1970. Sbornik proizvedeniy V.I. Lenina. In Russian /Compilation of Works by V.I. Lenin. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU7152182‎

‎Put' k Leninu. In Russian /The Way to Lenin ‎

‎"Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. The Way to Lenin. Moscow; Leningrad: Moscow Worker, 1926. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU8969790"‎

‎Pis'ma V. I. Lenina k Maksimu Gor'komu 1908-1913 gg. In Russian /Letters from...‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Lenin's Letters to Maxim Gorky 1908-1913: Leningrad: State Publishing House, 1924. Pis'ma V. I. Lenina k Maksimu Gor'komu 1908-1913 gg. In Russian /Letters from V. I. Lenin to Maxim Gorky, 1908-1913. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9157226‎

‎Mysli V. I. Lenina o religii. In Russian /V. I. Lenin's Thoughts on Religion ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. V. I. Lenin's Thoughts on Religion. Moscow: Atheist, 1930 (Penza: typo-lit. named after Vorovsky. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9262307‎

‎Zvukovaya kniga o Lenine. Tribun, Chelovek, Myslitel', Revolyutsioner, Zodchii. [i.e. Sound Book for Lenin. Speaker, Man, Thinker, Revolutionary, Builder] - [SOUND BOOK FOR LENIN]‎

‎Komitet po Radiobetschanijo i Televidenijo pri Sovete Ministrov SSSR, 1970. 4to. Original full red cloth with ""O. LENINE"" in gilt letters on front board and spine. A very nice and clean copy, w. all 18 red sound discs in pockets. Richly illustrated, in red, black and white. (2), 192, (4) pp.‎

‎First edition of this 1970-tribute book to Lenin consisting of numerous illustrations and 18 sound discs with his speaches etc. Rare.‎

‎1) Lenin. Wladimir Iljitsch. Ein kurzer Abriss seines Lebens und Wirkens. 2) Materialismus und Empiriokritizismus. Kritische Bemerkungen über eine Reaktionäre Philosophie. 3) Marx, Engels, Marxismus. 4) Uber die Pariser Kommune. 5) Uber Lenin. 5 Bde zus.‎

‎Moskau, Verlag für Fremdsprache Literatur, 1947, in-8vo, H.-Lederband.‎

‎The Unknown Lenin : From the Secret Archive‎

‎Yale university press 1996 in8. 1996. Cartonné jaquette.‎

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‎Très bon état avec sa jaquette dos légèrement écrasé ex-libris‎

‎Zadachi soyuzov molodezhi. In Russian /The Challenges of Youth Unions ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. The Challenges of Youth Unions. Moscow: The Molograd, 1976. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6940873‎

‎Shag vpered, dva shaga nazad. In Russian /One step forward, two steps back ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. One step forward, two steps back. Moscow: Politizdat, 1976. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6939080‎

‎Izbrannye proizvedeniya. In Russian /Selected Works ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Selected Works. Moscow: Politizdat, 1970. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6787261‎

‎Izbrannye proizvedeniya. In Russian /Selected Works ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Selected Works. Moscow: Politizdat, 1971. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6787260‎

‎Pis'ma V.ILenina k rodnym. In Russian /Letters from V.ILenin to his relatives ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Letters from V.ILenin to his relatives. Moscow: Politizdat, 1969. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6787242‎

‎Izbrannye proizvedeniya. In Russian /Selected Works‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Selected Works. Moscow: Politizdat, 1975-. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6777543‎

‎Ob avtoritete rukovoditelya. In Russian /On the authority of the leader ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. On the authority of the leader. Moscow: Politizdat, 1963. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6329646‎

‎O molodezhi. In Russian /On Youth ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. On Youth. Moscow: The Mol Guards, 1958. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU6329608‎

‎Filosofskie tetradi. In Russian/Philosophical Notebooks‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Philosophical Notebooks. Moscow: Politizdat, 1973. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU7152201‎

‎Ob Ustave partii. In Russian/On the Partys Articles of Association‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. About the Party Charter. Moscow: Politizdat, 1973. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU7152138‎

‎O sotsialisticheskikh finansakh. In Russian /On Socialist Finance ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. On Socialist Finance. Moscow: Politizdat, 1971. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU7152131‎