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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 368 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Moscow: Izdanie nauchno-issledovatel'skoi assotsiatsii po izucheniiu natsional'nykh i kolonial'nykh problem, 1935. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 224, [1] pp. Tables and graphs. Light soil to wrappers; some chipping to spine extremities; occasional underlining in pencil; still about very good. Scarce single issue of this journal of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV), established in 1921 in Moscow as a Soviet training school for foreign political leaders, especially those from Asia, Africa, the Near East, as well as from non-European Soviet Republics. Among the University's graduates were Jomo Kenyatta, the future prime minister of Kenya, Khalid Bhakdash, the founder of the Syrian communist party, and Liu Shaoqi, the future president of China, among many others. KUTV also became the home institution for the many African-American agriculture specialists invited by the Soviets to develop Soviet cotton production in Uzbekistan. A total of 41 issues of this journal were published in 1927-1938, with each issue including four sections: "Soviet East", "Foreign East", "The NIANKP at work", and "Criticism and bibliography". The present issue includes articles such as "Achievements of cultural development in the Buryat-Mongol ASSR", "The metalworking industry of Kazakhstan", "The flourishing of culture in the Azerbaijan SSR", "On the shifts in the Indian national Congress", "On some issues of the Communist movement in South Africa" etc. The editor of the journal, the Ukrainian-Jewish communist revolutionary Iosif Raiter (1893-1940), worked as a party functionary in Turkistan and Mongolia, before becoming a rector at the KUTV in 1928-1938. The University was closed during the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s, with many of its faculty, including Raiter, falling victim to the purges. As of April 2026, KVK, OCLC show scattered issue and one complete run of all 41 volumes in North America.