[THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE] Vashingtonskaia konferentsiia po ogranicheniiu vooruzhenii i Tikhookeanskim i Dal'nevostochnym voprosam 1921-1922 g. [i.e. Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament and the Pacific and Far East Questions. 1921-1922]

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Moscow: Litizdat NKID, 1924. 139, [3] pp. 25Ñ…17 cm. In contemporary binding with the original front cover mounted. In a very good condition, colored pencil underlines and marks occasionally. First and only Russian edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. The book was printed by People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and includes the treaties of the Washington Naval Conference (1921-192). The translation was undertaken by a diplomat, professor of international law Andrei Sabanin (1887-1938). He added some commentaries to the text and invited the seaman S. Kholodkovskii to check the accuracy of the naval term translation. The introduction was written by a politician, orientalist Lev Berlin (1897-1974) who was a consul general of the USSR in South China (Guangzhou) from 1923 to 1926. Worldcat shows copies located in Columbia, Harvard, Hawaii, Stanford Universities.

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• Title: [THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE] Vashingtonskaia konferentsiia po ogranicheniiu vooruzhenii i Tikhookeanskim i Dal'nevostochnym voprosam 1921-1922 g. [i.e. Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament and the Pacific and Far East Questions. 1921-1922]