THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, ALLIED INTERVENTION AND GERMAN AMBITION

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION – 9 pamphlets and leaflets on the effects of the cessation of war on the Eastern Front.

Rare publications dealing with the Russian Revolution, Allied Intervention, Germany and the outcome of the First World War.

SANDERS, W. Stephen. The Tragedy of Russia. London: [n.d., but 1918]. 8vo (211 x 133 mm.). 14pp. pamphlet on the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between Germany and Russia of 3 March 1918 that ended hostilities on the Eastern Front. The author argues that the Bolsheviks’ capitulation has left German European imperial ambitions unchecked, and the penultimate page features a full-page map of a German empire stretching from the Finnish shore of the Arctic Ocean south and eastwards encompassing the former Ottoman Empire and reaching as far as Basra and the Persian Gulf. Original self-wrappers (staples rusted).

RUSSIAN LIBERATION COMMITTEE. Bulletins. No. 6. 31 March 1919. [With:] – Considerations of the Russian Political Conference in Paris upon the Eastern Frontiers of Poland, and Peace in Europe. [N.p., but London: n.d., but c. 1919. 2 bifolia (250 x 163 mm.). (Light creasefolds.) [And:] RECONSTRUCTION SOCIETY. The Terrible Hell of Bolshevism. Experiences of Lt.-Col. John Ward … in Russia. London: [n.d., but 1918]. 2pp. leaflet. (Light soiling.)

ANON. The Russian Scandal. London: J.B. Francis, Athenaeum Press, 1918. Bifolium leaf (195 x 126 mm.), 4pp. Leaflet ‘Reprinted … from the Manchester Guardian of December 6th 1918’ attacking British intervention in Russia.

PAUL, W. Hands off Russia… An analysis of the economics of allied intervention in Russia. [Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, n.d., c. 1918]. 8vo (180 x 125 mm.), 16pp. Folding map. Original stapled wrappers (staples rusted, wrappers splitting at spine).

MARCHAND, René. Allied Agents in Soviet Russia. London: The People’s Russian Information Bureau, 1918. 8vo (180 x 124 mm.), 8pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted). Appeal to the French president, Poincaré, to withdraw from allied intervention in Russia in order to frustrate German war aims.

HUMPHREY, A.W. The Allies' Crime Against Russia. An exposure of a capitalist conspiracy. London: Independent Labour Party, 1919. 8vo (198 x 128 mm.), 24pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted).

NATIONAL ‘HANDS OFF RUSSIA’ COMMITTEE. Mr Krassin’s Note to Marquis Curzon. London: [n.d., but 1920]. Bifolium leaf (221 x 142 mm.), 2pp, printed on one side only. (Horizontal creasefolds with a few very minor tears, some light soiling.) An appeal by the Bolsheviks to the British to return White Army officers whom they accused of war crimes.

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