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Quarto (28 ? 22 cm). Contemporary cloth over boards with 255 leaves of text ,mimeographed typescript to rectos only. Glue stains and chips to title page, loss and restoration to upper corner of title page, likely disguising owner signature. First few leaves chipped along edges and toned due to stock; still about very good. An apparently unpublished manuscript, likely issued in only a very small number of reproduced typescript copies, promoting NTS (National Labor Union) activities, in which the authors argue that Soviet society is on the brink of another revolution. Pointing to recent uprisings in the GDR, Hungary, and Poland, as well as the numerous uprisings in Soviet factories, major construction sites, and prison camps, the authors of the manuscript claim that ?a revolutionary erosion of Soviet power is taking place from within.? The second part of the manuscript promotes the activities of the revolutionary anti-communist group NTS (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists), arguing for the need to support the NTS activities in the United States. Founded by Russian ?migr?s in Serbia in 1930s, NTS (originally called National Labor Union of the New Generation) stood for a combination of anti-Stalinism, democratic socialism, and Russian nationalism. Initially, the organisation saw itself as neither left- nor right-wing, though some scholars have pointed out that NTS had Fascist tendencies, a claim that the authors of this volume dispute. With the goal of defeating Communism in Russia, during WWII the group also controversially sought collaboration with Nazi Germany, and the organizational headquarters of NTS relocated from Belgrade to Berlin in 1941. This move is explained in the manuscript as one of misjudged opportunity, rather than a signal of true ideological allegiance. After the war, NTS was headquartered in Munich, and later in Frankfurt, where it ran the publishing house Posev, as well as Radio Free Russia, a short-wave radio station broadcasting anti-Soviet programming. The publishing of Posev and the workings of Radio Free Russia are discussed in the volume in detail. The volume also points out that NTS was behind some of the most daring efforts to distribute propaganda material in the Soviet Union, such as using hot air balloons launched in Berlin to scatter political leaflets on Soviet territory, as well as sending undercover agents into the Soviet Union. Many of the organization?s top members immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. The manuscript is attributed to several authors, most of whom left no other publications, with the exception of Vladimir G. Treml (1929?2018), later an economics professor at Duke (1967?1999), and a specialist in Soviet economic history and transition from planned economy to market economy. The authors also thank several prominent professors in the preface for reading the first draft of the manuscript, including Harold Lasswell, a specialist in wartime propaganda and Political Science professor at Yale, and the political scientist Hans Morgenthau, who was a consultant to the US Department of State during the Cold War. The manuscript is not credited as an official NTS publication, however, creating a positive image of NTS in the United States seems to be the goal of the publication. To this end NTS publications are cited throughout, and prominent personalities within the NTS movement such as Vladimir Poremsky, Gleb Rahr, and Roman Redlikh are also thanked and credited in the preface. The authors discuss the press coverage of NTS in Western Europe and the US, addressing controversies such as claimed discoveries of double agents, the in-fighting within the group, as well as the apprehension of NTS agents on Soviet territories which suggested that NTS was infiltrated by Soviet agents. Several names are redacted (cut out) out of the acknowledgements, possibly due to the persons not wanting to associate themselves with the sensitive political nature of the material. According to recent.
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