SOVIET PERSECUTION – 6 pamphlets and leaflets on the nature of the Russian authoritarian regime.

Powerful testimonies by eyewitnesses to the nature of arrest, imprisonment, torture and use of labour camps under the Soviet regime.

RUSSIAN LIBERATION COMMITTEE. In the Shadow of Death (A Document). Statement of Red Cross Sisters on the Bolshevist Prisons in Kiev. London: 1920. 8vo (215 x 137 mm.) Original printed green wrappers (staples rusted). Cyclostyled letter in French on Russian Liberation Committee headed paper with London address loosely inserted.

BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENCE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN RUSSIA. Russia and the British Labour Delegation’s Report. A Reply. London: 1925. 8vo (215 x 137 mm.) (Some names and addresses in ink on rear wrapper.) Original printed grey-blue wrappers (staples rusted).

CHERNAVIN, Vladimir. Life in Concentration Camps in U.S.S.R. (Reprinted ... from the Slavonic Review). Southend-on-Sea: 1934. 8vo (230 x 152 mm.) Original wrappers (spotted).

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS. Stalin’s Slave Camps. An indictment of modern slavery. Brussels: 1951. 8vo (240 x 160 mm.) 4 plates. Original wrappers printed in red and black depicting a map of the USSR with labour camps and labour administration zones (extremities faintly rubbed).

SCOTTISH LEAGUE FOR EUROPEAN FREEDOM. Russian Colonialism. Its consequences: slavery and annihilation. Direct appeal from the slaves. Edinburgh: 1956. 8vo (220 x 141 mm.) 2 folding plates illustrating the original letters written by Ukrainian prisoners and smuggled out of a Mordovian prison camp in Russia, with a large map of Soviet labour camps on the versoes of the plates. Original wrappers (staples rusted, front cover slightly unevenly darkened).

Sold with one other bifolium leaflet entitled Religious Persecution in Russia [N.p., but probably London: n.d. but c. 1922].

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