Published by Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1930
Seller: Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (The Poliics of the Enemy: Leaders of Capitalist and Accommodating Europe; Essays and Portraits). Octavo 19.8x13.5 cm., wrappers, 200pp. Solomon Telingater, front and rear cover and page design, with a photocollage on rear cover and vignettes with photos and drawings on the chapter title pages. This work presents two dozen essays characterizing class enemies --- Western politicians and leading personalities, with Pope Pius blessing them and flanked by police and armed guards. The photocollage depicts social democratic leaders brandishing their strength to keep the capitalist ball rolling. The author Gennady Isaevich Iakov-Geronskii (1900-??) was a journalist. He was arrested twice in the 1940s and sent to labor camps, rearrested in 1961 under Article 70 (undermining Soviet power). Béla Kun was the leader of the Hungarian 1919 revolution and exiled to the USSR; he was arrested and tried as a Trotskyite and shot in 1938. Worldcat locates copies in Princeton, Berliner Staatsbibliothek. Important document.