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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION – 39 publications by British and Russian authors in English defending the political change in Russia.

A large, rare collection of ephemera promoting the October Revolution of 1917.

LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924). Lessons of the Russian Revolution. London: British Socialist Party, July 1918. 8vo (182 x 120 mm.), 32pp. Original self-wrappers (loose, covers detached, extremities lightly chipped).

– Bourgeois democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat. London: Workers' Socialist Federation, [n.d., but c. 1918]. 8vo (184 x 125 mm.), 16pp. Original self-wrappers (creasefolds, light soiling).

– Speech at the Third All-Russia Trade Union Congress. Moscow: All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, 1920. 8vo (232 x 150 mm.), 14pp. Original self wrappers (browned, top edge brittle).

REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT. Decrees ... Volume 1. Petrograd [St Petersburg]: February 1918. 8vo (185 x 125mm), 14pp. Original stapled wrappers (staples rusted, a few small nicks, loose, covers detached, light browning). 'Translated from the originals, and published by the Bureau of international Revolutionary Propaganda attached to the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Workmen's and Peasants' Government of the Russian Republic.' Sold with a 1922 reprint in slightly larger format with type reset.

ANON. Material Supply of the Workers. Moscow: All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, 1920. 4to (230 x 152 mm.), 8pp. Original wrappers, unopened (light dogearing, uneven darkening to margins of covers). Sold with another reprint published by the Communist International at Petrograd [St Petersburg] in 1922, in 8vo format of 16pp, with original stapled self wrappers, unopened (lightly soiled).

MOTLER, L.A. Soviets for the British. A plain talk to plain people. London: The Workers' Socialist Federation, [n.d., but c. 1919]. 8vo (183 x 123 mm.), 12pp. Original stapled wrappers (light soiling).

KUN, Béla (1886-1938/1939). Revolutionary essays. London: British Socialist Party, [n.d., but c. 1918]. 8vo (183 x 125 mm.), 48pp. half-title. Original stapled wrappers (staples rusting). This is an English translation of a series of articles that originally appeared in Pravda.

PEOPLE'S RUSSIAN INFORMATION BUREAU. A message from the Petrograd Soviet. London: People's Russian Information Bureau, [1919]. Handbill (256 x 200 mm.), printed on one side only. (A trifle creased.)

– 'One Penny Pamphlets' issued by the People's Russian Information Bureau, London: 12th April 1919 - 2 January 1920. 19 single sheet cyclostyled typescripts, foolscap folio (330 x 210 and smaller). (Horizontal creasefolds, scattered staining and spotting.)

KING, Joseph. Bolshevism and Bolsheviks. London: Independent Labour Party, 1919. 8vo (200 x 130 mm.), 20pp. Original stapled self wrappers (covers loose and nearly detached).

RANSOME, Arthur (1884-1967). The Truth About Russia. London: The Workers' Socialist Federation, [n.d., but 1918]. 8vo (216 x 137 mm.), 16pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, some light scattered spotting). Reprinted from the American publication The New Republic, this view of the Revolution is interesting as Ransome was one of the very few foreign journalists to witness both the March and October events first-hand, and he had unparalleled access to the highest levels of the Soviet Government.

HUMPHRIES, Wilfred R. Life in Russia To-day. [London:] The Workers' Socialist Federation, [n.d., but c. 1919]. 8vo (191 x 123 mm.), 10pp. Original stapled self wrappers (light browning and spotting).

MARCHAND, René. Why I support Bolshevism. London: British Socialist Party, [1920]. 8vo (182 x 125 mm.), 64pp. Original stapled wrappers (staples rusted, front cover and first 2 leaves lightly creased and dust-soiled).

[HOICHBERG, Alexandre]. A year in Soviet Russia; brief account of the legislative work of 1917-1918. London: People's Russian Information Bureau, [n.d., but c. 1918]. 8vo (183 x 122 mm.), 16pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, some light spotting, some vertical and horizontal creasefolds).
Provenance:
Ralph Russell (ownership inscription in green ink on front cover).

RADEK, Karl (1885-1939). Programme of Socialist Construction. Moscow: Executive Committee of the Communist International, 1920. 8vo (230 x 151 mm.), 24pp. Original stapled self wrappers, unopened (staples rusted, light marginal dogearing and darkening). Provenance: 'R.33' (ink serial number to top margin). Sold with an ?offprint by the same author entitled 'Boycotting the Elections. A letter to a friend in Germany' dated February 1919, (380 x 205 mm.), printed on one side only, paginated 304 (2 horizontal creasefolds).

PEOPLES COMMISSARIAT OF JUSTICE. Russian Code of Laws of Labour. Petrograd [St Petersburg]: 1919. 8vo (234 x 164mm), 24pp. Original stapled self wrappers (browned and uneven darkening to extremities of front cover, some faint marginal creasing).

PRICE, M. Philips. The Origin and Growth of the Russian Soviets. London: People's Russian Information Bureau, April 1919. 8vo (212 x 135 mm.), 24pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, some light dogearing and dust-soiling).

Sold with one other similar pamphlet.

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