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[COMMUNISM] NEW CENTURY PUBLISHERS
Complete Text of the Declaration of the Twelve Communist and Workers Parties Meeting in Moscow USSR Nov. 14-16 1957 on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution cover title
New York: New Century Publishers 1957. Offprint. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's grey decorative staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp. Light toning else Near Fine. Translations provided by the Hsinhua News Agency in Peking i.e. Beijing and first published in the December 1957 issue of Political Affairs. New Century Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : 40656
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[Communism; Peekskill, NY] Fast, Howard
Crisis No. 1 and Crisis No. 2. Folded Broadsheets
New York: Civil Rights Congress 1951. Very good condition. Two pamphlets part of a series of articles by the American author and noted Communist. Fast modeled his pamphlets on Thomas Paine's "Crisis Papers" noting "I intend this to be the first of a number of Crisis Papers. This tyranny of today will not be easily conquered nor will the evil men who rule America easily bow to the will of the people. I state that I will speak up again and again so long as the need be present". <br /> <br /> Crisis No. 1 protests the American war in Korea the activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and attacks and threats on American Communists. Fast decries the threats against the leader of the Civil Rights Congress William L. Patterson to turn over all of his organization's records or be jailed. The Congress's goal was to fight racism & racial injustice in the US.<br /> <br /> Crisis No. 2 concerns the government's attacks on the Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund. 8vo 4pp each. Paper evenly toned. These are the first and second of three pamphlets titled Crisis. Fast wrote extensively on the Paul Robeson riots in Peekskill NY. OCLC: 30448136 Crisis No. 1 and OCLC: 71682230. Civil Rights Congress unknown
Bookseller reference : 23521
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[COMMUNISM] [CHILE] STAUBER, John
El Peligro Comunista y Su Influencia en Chile
Santiago de Chile: Union Social de Chile 1932. First Edition. 12mo 17.5cm.; publisher's blue-grey printed staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Textblock slightly toned else a Fine copy. Issued as "Folleto No. 21. [Union Social de Chile] unknown
Bookseller reference : 43659
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[COMMUNISM] PACKER, Herbert L.
Ex-Communist Witnesses; Four Studies in Fact Finding. A challenging examination of the testimony of Whittaker Chambers Elizabeth Bentley Louis Budenz and John Lautner
Stanford: Stanford University Press 1962. First Edition. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's pale slate grey cloth covered boards titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. viii; 279pp. Light scuffing and edgewear minor bumping to spine ends in a bright strong example of the dustjacket with some minor rubbing and chipping to extremities. some sunning and fraying to the spine panel and ends a very good handsome copy with some light wear. Internally clean. Bookplate of Phillip G. Fox to front pastedown clearly a home made design and almost certainly that of Professor Phillip G. Fox of the University of Wisconsin who was a professor of business administration with an almost obsessive interest in slot machines and the mathematics of gambling payouts. The bookplate has been composed as a piece of typewriter art centered on a complex mathematical equation; bookdealers aren't necessarily terribly mathematically adept so the solution will have to be found by the next owner of the book.<br /> <br /> Packer's preoccupation here is centred around which of the regularly used official methods for interrogating communists and building information on their activities is the most efficient and successful; court trials admisnitrative hearins or Congressional investigations. There is an interesting corollary in that he is compelled to analyze whether or not Communism is in fact subversive but the answer to that shouldn't probably shouldn't get in the way of a good system for governments to control their citizens. Stanford University Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 82699
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[COMMUNISM] [ANTI-COMMUNISM] CARLTON, Richard K. (Editor)
Forced Labor in the "People's Democracies
New York: Frederick A. Praeger; For the Mid-European Studies Center of the Free Europe Committee 1955. Revised Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Original black cloth spine over illustrated card wraps. 247pp. Some light wear to the extremities and minor toning to the card wraps; internally clean. A very good strong copy.<br /> <br /> An analysis of the nature extent and appalling realities of Soviet forced labor camps in Hungary Czechoslovakia Romania Bulgaria and Poland. This revised edition was expanded in order to include data regarding forced labor camps in Communist China. Frederick A. Praeger; For the Mid-European Studies Center of the Free Europe Committee unknown
Bookseller reference : 84362
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[COMMUNISM - MICHIGAN]
Hand-Painted Banner: "Elect Communists! Kristalsky for Mayor
Hamtramck MI 1934. Hand-painted banner 8.5cm x 65cm ca 3-1/4" x 26". In red and black on a white background. Old stains and tape adhesions; complete and Good. Scarce relic from the 1934 Hamtramck Michigan mayoral campaign in which George Kristalsky and a slate of seven communist candidates for City Council were defeated. Hamtramck a working-class suburb of Detroit was a center of radical labor activity during the Great Depression. unknown
Bookseller reference : 16160
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[COMMUNISM]. [MARX, Karl]
HISTORY OF THE COMMUNE OF 1871; translated from the French of Hippolyte Prosper Olivier Lissagaray 1838-1901 by Eleanor Marx Aveling
London: Reeves & Turner 1886. First Edition in English. 8vo 500pp uncut in original green cloth.some water damage to the rear board little toning to the title-page o/w a very good tight copy. The Paris Comune of 1871 was an insurrection of Paris against the French government from March 18 to May 28 1871. It occurred in the wake of France’s defeat in the Franco-German War and the collapse of Napoleon III’s Second Empire 1852-70. Lissagary was a soldier of the Commune. This translation was originally done in 1876 and was entirely revised and corrected by Karl Marx. As a working class revolutionary movement the experience of the Commune offered Marx an opportunity for contemporary analysis. Scarce. Reeves & Turner unknown
Bookseller reference : 57483
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[COMMUNISM]. VILLETARD, Edmond
HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL; Translated by Susan M. Day
New Haven Ct: Richmond 1874. First Edition. Intro. by Henry Red clothworn at the top of the spine A good tight copy. An attack on Socialism. Villetard was editor of Journal des Debats. Richmond unknown
Bookseller reference : 5439
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[COMMUNISM] [CPUSA] MANUILSKY, DZ. [Dmitry Zhakarovych] D. Z.
How to Prepare a Report on the International Situation
San Francisco: Educational Committee San Francisco Communist Party N.d. ca 1937. First Edition. Corner-stapled mimeographed typescript 36cm x 22cm; 6pp printed recto-only. Toning corner creases and general wear; still a complete Good or better example. Dated from text. Rather remarkable Popular Front document prepared by Manuilsky as Deputy General Secretary of the Comintern and clearly oriented toward American Party members as the majority of the text deals with the resurgent economic crisis in the U.S. Though the title of the paper might suggest a style sheet or compositional outline the document in fact is a list of rather explicit instructions to American Party members on how to interpret contemporary world events in the light of current Soviet doctrine the general upshot being that the American economic crisis the rise of European fascism revolution in China and the increasing militancy of the Japanese are all symptoms of the collapse of capitalism and the ". growing resistance of the working class and the toiling masses against the onslaught of the fascist powers!" Evidence of Moscow's direct influence on the CPUSA during this period is hardly necessary to prove a point but this document provides a neat example of precisely how that influence was directed and executed. Unrecorded in this format though a similar document was published in Los Angeles in 1946 per OCLC; this printing clearly much earlier based on text. Educational Committee, San Francisco Communist Party unknown
Bookseller reference : 40520
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[Communism]
Karl Marx Frederick Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Illustrations by Frans Masereel. International Publishers. NY. 1983. 24mo 79pp. Hardcover chipped and worn d/w now neatly protected by clear mylar vg cond. Uncludes bibliographic references. Illustrations by Frans Masereel. International Publishers. NY. 1983. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 41071
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[COMMUNISM - FRANCE] GRANDJOUAN, Jules
La Misere en Faux-Col "White Collar Misery": Employes Artisans Fonctionnaires Pensionnes La Bourgeoisie Incapable D'Assurer Votre Existence Vous Ecrase Sous Des Charges de Toutes Sortes - Rejoignez Le Bloc Ouvrier-Paysan
Impression illegible: Bloc Ouvrier-Paysan 1929. Original lithographed poster 40cm x 120cm ca 16" x 47". Minuscule losses at margins not approaching image; closed tears; impression slightly weak; Very Good professionally backed on linen B/B.<br /> <br /> An ephemeral work produced for the short-lived Bloc Ouvrier-Paysan Workers & Peasants Party a Communist splinter group which existed in France only from 1929-30. The poster invites white-collar workers including artisans civil servants and pensioners to join the Bloc to save themselves from being crushed under the weight of bourgeois capitalism. The image depicts the bourgeoisie personified in the form of high rents food goods taxes and transportation costs being pulled forward by a horde of civil servants under harness. Copies located at Hoover Institution and the archives of the Department of Correze France; none others in institutional collections or commerce. Bloc Ouvrier-Paysan unknown
Bookseller reference : 82982
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[COMMUNISM]. LENINE, N[icholay]
La Revolution Proletarienne et la Renegat Kautsky
Paris: Biblioteque Communiste 1921. First French edition. Original wraps. 8vo Pp. 124. Spine darkened. A very good copy. Biblioteque Communiste unknown
Bookseller reference : 1436
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[COMMUNISM] MARX, Karl; J. Roy, trans
Le Capital
Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie 1872-1875. First French Edition. Large octavo 28.5cm.; original parts bound in early 20th century blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; 351pp.; pictorial half title and title pages full-paged steel-engraved portrait and facsimile additional vignettes throughout; text printed in double column. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped foxing and toning to preliminaries as well as minor dampstaining to last few leaves of text light foxing to rear cover; overall Very Good and sound. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital" the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. 7: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction de 'Das Kapital' en livraisons périodiques. Sous cette forme l'ouvrage sera plus accessible à la classe ouvrière et pour moi cette considération l'emporte sur toute autre" "I congratulate you on your idea to publish the translation of 'Das Kapital' as a periodical. In this format the work should be more accessible to the working class and to me this is more important than all else" our translation. Maurice Lachatre 1814-1900 was a Parisian radical bookseller publisher and collaborator of Félix Pyat's with whom Marx butted heads over the growth of the International Working Men's Association in France. Lachatre's projected publication of the anarchist newspaper "La Commune" nearly cost him his life after the fall of the Paris Commune when his bookshop was attacked with murderous intent by the Versaillaise army see "The Publisher's Weekly" Vol. 19 1881 pp. 50-1. It was while exiled first in Belgium and then Switzerland that Lachatre began work on publishing the present edition though he was not free to return to Paris until 1879. Maurice Lachatre et Cie unknown
Bookseller reference : 47305
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[Communism] [Marxist] Evans, Robert; Chambers, Whittaker; et al.
New Masses Magazine Vol. 8 No. 5 December 1932
New York: New Masses Inc 1932. First edition. Magazine 2 30 2pp. Advertisements illustrations. Staple bound in illustrated paper wrappers of O. Soglow. Some toning light edge wear. Very good. New Masses, Inc unknown
Bookseller reference : 6517
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[COMMUNISM] NOVAK, Joseph [PSEUD: KOSINSKI, Jerzy]
No Third Path
New york: Doubleday 1962. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's russet cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 359pp. Light wear to board edges and spine ends; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed; in a clean bright example of the dustjacket with some light marginal wear and fraying to the head of spine. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> One of two works written about life in the Soviet Union by Kosinski under his Novak pseudonym. Kosinski something of a master of obscuring his own footprints never really accounted for his need to write anti-communist material in the US under an assumed name and it was widely understood that these works were sponsored and commissioned by the CIA although the claim was never substantiated. This copy has one small piece of underlining to the text of the jacket flap where the author's status as "a social scientist" has been emphasised. This title and "The Future is Ours Comrade" both stem from the period when Kosinski was studying at Columbia on a Ford grant. Doubleday unknown
Bookseller reference : 84966
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[COMMUNISM] [CPUSA]
Penny Pamphlets That Help Fight Against Hunger - Read and Spread Among Your Fellow Workers
New York: Workers Library Publishers n.d. but ca.1934. Original poster offset printed in black on white stock measuring 67.5cm x 80.5cm. Light wear to extremities old horizontal and vertical folds with attendant creasing; Very Good.<br /> <br /> Propaganda poster advertising eight penny pamphlets published by the Workers Library; pricing ensured that even the lowliest worker would be able to afford something to read. The poster pictures titles by Israel Amter Elizabeth Lawson Herbert Benjamin and Sadie Van Veen. Issued by the National Committee Unemployed Councils proceeds presumably went to aid the unemployed and anti-hunger organizations. Not found in OCLC. Workers Library Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : 26222
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[COMMUNISM] WALTER, Ellery
Russia's Decisive Year
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1932. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in red to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 282pp. A little light wear to extremities minor bumping to spine ends bright and strong; internally clean topstain red fore-edge untrimmed; in a strong example of the dustjacket priceclipped with some soiling to the white portions and some shallow marginal chipping. A very good copy. Signed by the author to the title page. <br /> <br /> Walter's assessment of the Russian experiment as it stood in the early 1930's after he had just been granted unprecedented access to administration and infrastructure during a six month tour of the country. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown
Bookseller reference : 84963
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[COMMUNISM - ITALIAN-AMERICANS] "EMME" (pseud)
Se si fa la Rivoluzione in Italia si morrà di fame
New York: Libreria Rossa N.d. ca 1919. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 24pp. Slight aging; mild creasing to spine; Very Good. Text entirely in Italian. Communist tract issued shortly after the Russian revolution calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie; and the "management of the new society through a free arrangement of persons and competent groups" ".persone e di gruppi competenti interessati all soluzione di ogni singolo problema tecnico e sociale". The pseudonym "Emme" is unknown to us; nor is it certain from which "Libreria Rossa" this pamphlet originated – "libreria rossa" "red bookshop" being a common enough appelation among Italian-American radical booksellers of all political stripes during this period. One copy only in OCLC; not seen in commerce; not in Periconi. Libreria Rossa unknown
Bookseller reference : 43051
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[COMMUNISM]. LUXEMBURG, Rosa
SELECTED POLITICAL WRITINGS.; edited with an intro. by Dick Howard
NY: Monthly Review 1971. First edn. 8vo Pp. 441. VG in price clipped dj. Active in the German Polish and Russian Communist movements in the pre-WWII time period Luxemburg was murdered by the German government. Monthly Review unknown
Bookseller reference : 8617
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[COMMUNISM] [LABOR REFORM] LEONOV, Leonid; GORKY, Maxim
Soviet River
New York: Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh 1932. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Original deep red cloth titled in black to spine with embossed publisher's imprint to front board. Dustjacket. 383pp. Bumped to spine ends with some minor wear to corners some minor darkening to the cloth in places; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed top edge a trifle dusty; in the John Gram dustjacket with some toning to the spine panel shallow chipping and loss to the spine ends intruding upon the author's first name and a short closed tear to the front upper front spine hinge. A good strong copy with some wear.<br /> <br /> Leonov's novel of Soviet labor centred around the building of an enormous factory; Sotstroy. Gorky provides the preface; the novel was notable at the time as an antidote to the image of the USSR as an enormous generator of plans progress noble artistic and industrial endeavor and a shining beacon of energy. Leonov tends towards a more on the ground depiction of enthusiastic ineptitude paranoia and fanaticism. Bookplate of Alvin Kapusta to front pastedown a Special Assistant for Soviet Nationalities at the US State Department and a notable scholar of the Soviet Bloc whose collections are housed at the Hoover Institution. Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh unknown
Bookseller reference : 84363
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[COMMUNISM - AFRICA]
The African Communist Quarterly. No. 83 - Fourth Quarter 1980
London: Inkululeko Publications 1973. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 93pp; illus. Minor external wear; internally fresh; Very Good or better. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by Henry Winston Bonakele Godula georgi Galperin Vukani Mawethu others. Inkululeko Publications unknown
Bookseller reference : 14954
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[COMMUNISM] POLONSKY, Antony; DRUKIER, Boleslaw [Editors]
The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland; December 1943-June 1945
London Boston Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's deep red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 464pp. Clean and bright cloth strong and tight; internally clean and fresh. A near fine copy in dustjacket. <br /> <br /> An examination of the process by which the Soviets laid the groundwork for post war occupation of Poland providing a step by step analysis. The research is assisted by the data found in a number of contemporary Soviet documents which were smuggled into the West in the early-1970's. Routledge & Kegan Paul unknown
Bookseller reference : 84959
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[COMMUNISM] [USSR] FULOP-MILLER, Rene [TRANS: FS. FLINT; DF. TAIT F. S. D. F.
The Mind and Face of Bolshevism; An Examination of Cultural Life in Soviet Russia
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. Large Paper Edition. Large Octavo. 26.5cm. Publisher's pale orange cloth titled in black and gilt to front board with red paper title label to spine. xvi; 308pp. Scuffing and bumping to extremities the cloth uniformly faded to a pale diluted pinkish orange with some scuffing and soiling darkening to the spine label and some very light marginal chipping; internally clean black topstain fore-edge untrimmed lavishly illustrated throughout in color and black and white. A strong and handsome copy about very good due to solidity and completeness but with cosmetic external wear. <br /> <br /> Significantly taller and more bulky than the trade edition likely a deluxe or large paper edition produced from British sheets the pagination differs considerably from the earlier trade edition with several additional color illustrations for example the "Red Angel of Revolution" color plate is here the recto of the photographic frontis and a rather unusual contemporary small format photograph of Leningrad tipped onto one of the plate pages. The paper title label suggests a slipcase although none is present. Unusual rather than scarce with a pretty solid showing in institutions if none in trade. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
Bookseller reference : 84083
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[COMMUNISM]. ENGELS, Frederick
THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE STATE; in the light of the researches of Lewis H. Morgan
NY: International Pub 1942. reprint. VG. Rowbotham: ".an attempt to analyze the oppression of women in terms of the relationship between the mode of production and procreation.saw the monogamous family as the result of the private ownership of property. International Pub unknown
Bookseller reference : 8949
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[COMMUNISM] [SOVIET UNION] MOKHOV, Z.
The Protection of Labour in the U.S.S.R.
Moscow: Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R. 1933. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. 12mo pictorial wrappers; 48pp. Minor edge-soil and foxing; Near Fine. Workers' safety industrial hygiene and working hours in Soviet production plants. Striking graphic cover in Social Realist style. Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R. unknown
Bookseller reference : 12118
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[COMMUNISM - WOMEN] RAINERI, Vivian McGuckin
The Red Angel: The Life and Times of Elaine Black Yoneda 1906-1988
New York: International Publishers 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Illustrated card wrappers; 332pp; illus. Last few leaves wrinkled else a tight clean unmarked copy. Yoneda was a San Francisco organizer for the CPUSA and active in the ILD. International Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : 15907
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[COMMUNISM] GETTY, J. Arch; NAUMOV, Oleg V.
The Road To Terror; Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks 1932-1939
New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1999. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over black paper covered boards titled and ruled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxvii; 635pp. Very light wear to spine ends; internally clean illustrated throughout; in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. <br /> <br /> An academic analysis of the depradations of Stalin's ruling party during the pogroms and cleansings in the few years immediately prior to WW2 compiled from previously secret of inaccessible documents and testimonies. Yale University Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 84402
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[COMMUNISM] Central Committee Plenum
Thesis and Resolutions for the Seventh National Convention of the Communist Party of U.S.A. March 31 - April 4 1930
Arlington: Historical Documentation Committee Asia Books Periodicals 1976. Reprint. Octavo. Yellow card wrappers; 95pp. Slight wear to spine; ownership signature on front page; else clean tight copy in very good condition. Historical Documentation Committee, Asia Books Periodicals unknown
Bookseller reference : 15536
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[COMMUNISM] HANSEN, Joseph
Too Many Babies A Marxist Answer to Some Frightening Questions
New York: Pioneer Publishers 1960. First Edition. Octavo. Stiff card wrappers; 48pp. Crisp tight copy toning to edges bump to upper corners else Near Fine. Pioneer Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : 15547
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[COMMUNISM - GULAGS] VITZTHUM, Hilda
Torn Out By The Roots: The Recollections of a Former Communist
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 273pp; illus. Tight Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed jacket; appears unread. University of Nebraska Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 15951
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[COMMUNISM] TROTZKY, Leon [Trotsky]
Von Oktober bis nach Brest-Litovsk. Die Geschichte der bolschevistischen November-Revolution Sozialistische Arbeiter-Biliothek No. 12
Chicago: Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States 1919. First American Edition. 12mo 18cm. Printed card wrappers; 127pp. Very mild external wear; faint spotting to a few pages of text; Near Fine in the original wrappers. Probable first printing in America of Trotsky's account of the October revolution. English editions appeared the same year in London and Brooklyn but it is likely that this German-language version translated from the Russian by German-American scholar Jacob Wittmer Hartmann precedes any English edition. Interestingly a German translation had already appeared in Berlin in 1918 but the German-language group of the Socialist Party commissioned this new translation from Hartmann for the American edition. Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States unknown
Bookseller reference : 17439
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[COMMUNISM] [RUSSIA]
КОÐСТРУКТОРЮÐОСТЬ - 3; "Constructor Youth-3" A Soviet pre-collapse constructor set for young people
Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures."<br /> <br /> Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown
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[DISK: TÜRKIYE DEVRIMCI ISÇI SENDIKALARI KONFEDERASYONU [I. E. TURKEY REVOLUTINARY WORKERS' CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS].
[FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE 1ST PRIZE WINNER TURKISH MAY 1 GRAPHIC ART] 1 Mayis: Dünya isçilerinin birlik, mücadele, dayanisma günü. Cover art by Orhan Taylan, (1941-).
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 63, [1] p., 3 unnumbered b/w plates. This is one of the early books on May 1 in Turkey printed by the Turkish Revolutionary Workers' Confederation of Trade Unions. Cover art illustrated by Turkish painter Orhan Taylan, (1941-). In the Ottoman Empire, the first celebration of Labour Day was organized in Skopje in 1909. In Istanbul, Labour Day was first celebrated in 1912. No celebrations could be organized between 1928 and 1975. On 1 May 1976 the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey (DISK) organized a rally on Taksim Square with mass participation one year ago "Bloody First May" which was an attack on leftist demonstrators on 1 May 1977 (International Workers' Day) in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey. This booklet was printed for the commemoration of this celebration. Orhan Taylan was born in Samsun, to an artist mother in 1941. Graduated from Robert College (1960) and the Fine Arts Academy of Rome (1965). First solo painting exhibition in 1968. Took leading positions in artists' organizations (1975-1978). Organized mural painting symposiums and executed several murals (1976-80). His paintings were exhibited in London, Amsterdam, and Moscow within Turkish Highlights exhibitions between 1988 and 1990. Aside from regular exhibitions in Istanbul and Ankara, his works were also shown in solo gallery exhibitions in Paris, New York, Geneva, and Athens. Orhan Taylan exhibits mainly figurative oil paintings, and occasionally metal sculptures and drawings. Lives and works in Istanbul. During the 1971 Military coup, taken in custody on summer midnight together with his wife and cartoonist Tan Oral. All his archives and hundreds of books destroyed. 1977 Group exhibitions in Paris and Berlin. The May 1 poster wins 1st prize in the International Poster Competition of the World Federation of Trade Unions, Prag. (Source: Turkish Painting - Visual Art Encyclopedia). This is the first appearance of this art before it's winning the prize in 1977. Rare.
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[ESPAGNE] - [La Nouvelle Critique].-
lA nOUVELLE cRITIQUE. REVUE DU MARXISME MILITANT. n°104, MARS 1959 : espagne, 1939-1959.
1959 P., Nouvelle Critique, 19595, in 8° broché, 192 pages ; couverture illustrée par PICASSO (avec des rousseurs).
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[Flynn, John T.]
John T. Flynn Replies to His Critics
<p>New York: Self-published ca. 1950. No Edition Stated. Oblong 48mo 3 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 100 x 140 mm 31 1 pages in stapled wrappers.</p><p>American journalist and professional curmudgeon John T. Flynn 1882-1964 responds to critics of his 1949 book "The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution" in which he alleged America was being led down the road to socialism.</p><p>In this pamphlet he attacks Protestant church organizations saying they promote socialism. He also levels attacks at various people he considers socialists communists and fellow travelers. OCLC FirstSearch shows only six institutional holdings. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Toning to wrappers rubber stamp of free-market economist Percy L. Greaves Jr. to upper wrapper. Internally clean bright and unmarked. Very Good.</p> Self-published paperback
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[HISTOIRE] - BARDOUX, DE L'INSTITUT (Jacques)
J'accuse Moscou….
Paris, Ernest Flammarion Éditeur, s.d. (vers 1936) ; in-16 jésus, 48 pp., couverture et cahier agrafés. Ouvrage tentant de dire la vérité sur les camps soviétiques et Staline. Bon état.
Bookseller reference : J0569
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[HISTOIRE] - BARDOUX, DE L'INSTITUT (Jacques)
J'accuse Moscou….
Paris, Ernest Flammarion Éditeur, s.d. (vers 1936); in-16 jésus, 48 pp., couverture et cahier agrafés. Ouvrage tentant de dire la vérité sur les camps soviétiques et Staline. Bon état.
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[HISTOIRE] - LEWIS - LEWIS - RIGDON
Trois femmes dans la révolution cubaine.
Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1980; in-8, 407 pp., broché. Bon état.
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[JUVENILE LITERATURE] [COMMUNISM] SHAW, Ruth and HA. POTAMKIN H. A.
Our Lenin. Pictures by William Siegel
New York: International Publishers 1934. First Edition. Oblong quarto 23cm x 27cm. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; 62pp; illus. A remarkably bright unworn copy with minimal rubbing to board corners with the pictorial elements bright and unfaded. Internally clean and unmarked with joints and hinges tight; Near Fine. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. There was also an issue in plain black bookcloth priority uncertain. <br /> <br /> A biographical encomium to Lenin for juvenile readers with illustrations by the New Masses cartoonist William Siegel. A great example of "party-approved" literature for children during the heyday of communism in America an unusually well-preserved copy. International Publishers unknown
Bookseller reference : 81518
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[Karl Marx] Drennen, DA. D. A.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto: A Full Textual Explication
Woodbury: Barron's Educational Series 1972. Paper bound first edition 202pp includes schematic overview bibliography and index. Vertical scratch/indentation down length of front cover with a few moderate creases. Ex-library copy in good or better condition text is clean. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Woodbury: Barron's Educational Series, 1972 unknown
Bookseller reference : 26653 ISBN : 081200437X 9780812004373
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[La Revue Socialiste]
LA REVUE SOCIALISTE - N° 50 - Octobre 1951
Revue mensuelle de culture politique et sociale : 112 pages, format 160 x 250 mm, brochée, bon état
Bookseller reference : LFA-126730540
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[La Nouvelle Critique].-
la nouvelle critique. rEVUE DU MARXISME MILITANT. n°45, 5e année, avril-mai 1953.
1959 Paris, Nouvelle Critique, 1953, in 8° broché, 368 pages.
Bookseller reference : 85214
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[Latinx] [Communism]
DAMIAN GARCIA Oct. 24 1949 - April 22 1980 A Member of the Revolutionary Communist Party One of the Three Revolutionaries Who Raised the Red Flag over the Alamo Was Brutally Murdered by Police Agents in an East LA Housing Project April 22 1980
Small poster 8 1/2" x 14" photomechanically reproduced on white paper. Two-sided with the text in English on one side and Spanish on the other. Creased horizontally with some mild toning; else very good.<br /> <br /> This piece was intended to raise awareness of an April 24 1980 march and memorial meeting in Oakland California organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party in honor of Damian Garcia who was murdered two days earlier while distributing party literature at the Pico Gardens housing project in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> Garcia a U.C. Santa Barbara graduate who served as executive director of La Casa de la Raza during the mid-1970s was a prominent RCP member who led one of the group's most notable actions: raising the red flag over the Alamo in San Antonio on March 20 1980. Throwing down the Texas flag Garcia declared "We've come to set the record straight about the Alamo. This is a symbol of the theft of Mexican land a symbol about the murder of Mexicans and Indians and a symbol of oppression of Chicanos and Mexicanos throughout the whole Southwest." He also called on people together with the proletariat worldwide to come out in struggle on May 1: International Workers Day.<br /> <br /> Following Garcia's death the RCP claimed that his murder was a result of this action and alleged Los Angeles Police Department involvement. The party also refused to cooperate in the investigation and organized demonstrations against both the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles including a May Day march in Los Angeles that was forcibly dispersed by riot clad police officers. As the RCP's first and only martyr Garcia remains an important propaganda symbol for the organization and frequently appears in the RCP newspaper The Revolutionary Worker. unknown
Bookseller reference : 77437
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[LEVAL (Gaston)].
Le Chemin du socialisme - Les débuts de la crise communiste-bolchévique.
Genève, Groupe socialiste libertaire, 1958 1 volume 13,7 x 21,3cm Agrafé. 1 feuillet, 37p. Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 20288
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[Les Cahiers Libres] L. EMERY
LES CAHIERS LIBRES - N° 142 - Juin 1976
Revue d'information et de culture : 16 pages, format 135 x 210 mm, brochée, Les Cahiers Libres (Villeurbanne), bon état
Bookseller reference : LFA-126746655
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[Les Cahiers Libres] L. EMERY
LES CAHIERS LIBRES - N° 146 - Octobre 1977
Revue d'information et de culture : 32 pages, format 135 x 210 mm, brochée, Les Cahiers Libres (Villeurbanne), bon état
Bookseller reference : LFA-126746657
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[Lettre]
LETTRE n° 233-234 - Janvier-février 1978 MARXISME VIVANT
Mensuel de 271 pages, format 135 x 215 mm, broché, publié en 1978, Temps Présent, bon état
Bookseller reference : LFA-126717537
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[LENINE] - SOLJENITSYNE (Alexandre).-
Lénine à Zurich. Chapitres. Traduit par Jean Paul Semon.
1975 P., Le Seuil, 1975, grand in 8° broché, 223 pages ; couverture illustrée.
Bookseller reference : 55928
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[LEVAL (Gaston)].
Le Chemin du socialisme - Les débuts de la crise communiste-bolchévique.
1ère édition de ce texte (anonyme) où Gaston LEVAL, pseudonyme de Pierre Piller (1895-1978), militant et théoricien anarcho-syndicaliste puis humaniste libertaire, publié par le "Groupe socialiste libertaire" fondé en 1955 par l'auteur (et qui deviendra en 1963 le "Groupe humaniste libertaire" et, en 1978, "Civilisation libertaire") présente, théoriquement et historiquement, l'opposition entre le socialisme libertaire, humaniste, et le bolchévisme: "Une crise a éclaté, qui s’étend au sein de la plupart des partis dits "communistes" du monde. [...] Elle n’est pas absolument récente. Elle remonte aux premières années de l’organisation de l’Etat bolchevique, lorsque de nombreux révolutionnaires, qui avaient adhéré au régime et au parti triomphants, comprirent que la route prise était fausse, et ne pouvait mener aux résultats rêvés." Français
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[Libertés pour la Démocratie Sociale]
40e CONGRES de la CGT : La MAINMISE SE RENFORCE
N° 10 (Mars 1979) de "Libertés pour la Démocratie Sociale" : une brochure de 45 pages, format 210 x 135 mm, brochée, illustrée, publiée en 1979, bon état
Bookseller reference : LFA01b99
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