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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. OGNYOV, N. The Diary of a Communist Undergraduate. Trans. from the Russian by Alexander Werth. London: Gallancz. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in lime to the spine, in the Gollancz yellow dust jacket. A very good book, the cloth clean, the binding tight and very gently rolled, the textblock mostly clean, some spots and toning to endpapers. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to spine, spine darkened, corners and tips with some chips and nicks, some grubbiness but nevertheless uncommon in the jacket. A sequel to the author's popular 'The Diary of a Communist Schoolboy', both fictionalised accounts of life under Bolshevik influence, termed by Werth in his introduction as 'psychological fiction, half-art, half-journalism'. Like 'Schoolboy', 'Undergraduate' follows Kostya Ryabtsev between 1925 and 1926, now an undergraduate student, and beginning to understand that the world is much broader than the narrow ideology his education has carved for him. An engrossing read, both diaries commercial successes in and out of Russia. Uncommon.