Stepniak Pseud (5 results)

First Edition. Minor library marks remain internally. Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and shelf-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 122 pages; Physical desc. : xi, 122 p. , 1 l ; 20 cm. Subjects; Russia - Politics and government - 1801-1917. Notes: Includes: What is wanted? And The Agitation Abroad. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Minor library marks remain internally. Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and shelf-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 122 pages; Physical desc. : xi, 122 p. , 1 l ; 20 cm. Subjects; Russia - Politics and government - 1801-1917. Notes: Includes: What is wanted? And The Agitation Abroad. 1 Kg.

London, Sonnenschein, 1894. In-8° (22 x 15), pp. X+(2)+651. Leg. tela edit. con titolo in oro al dorso. Buon es. (11331) Volume che ebbe il merito di portare l'attenzione dell'Europa sulla questione agraria in Russia e più in generale sulla situazione dei contadini in Russia e sulla miseria delle campagne sul finire del XIX secolo, aprendo tuttavia uno spiraglio verso soluzioni basate sul corporativismo. Apparsa per la prima volta nel 1888, l'opera fu assai apprezzata in Inghilterra e in Europa. S. M. Kravcinskij (1851-1895), originario della Crimea, dopo un primo avvio alla carriera militare, si spostò verso i populisti e si dedicò alla causa del socialismo rivoluzionario in Russia, rifugiandosi poi come esule in Belgio, in Svizzera, in Italia, e negli ultimi anni in Inghilterra; conobbe Bakunin e gli internazionalisti, frequentò Cafiero e Malatesta e fece parte pure della famosa "Banda del Matese".

London, Sonnenschein, 1894. In-8° (22 x 15), pp. X+(2)+651. Leg. tela edit. con titolo in oro al dorso. Buon es. (11331) Volume che ebbe il merito di portare l'attenzione dell'Europa sulla questione agraria in Russia e più in generale sulla situazione dei contadini in Russia e sulla miseria delle campagne sul finire del XIX secolo, aprendo tuttavia uno spiraglio verso soluzioni basate sul corporativismo. Apparsa per la prima volta nel 1888, l'opera fu assai apprezzata in Inghilterra e in Europa. S. M. Kravcinskij (1851-1895), originario della Crimea, dopo un primo avvio alla carriera militare, si spostò verso i populisti e si dedicò alla causa del socialismo rivoluzionario in Russia, rifugiandosi poi come esule in Belgio, in Svizzera, in Italia, e negli ultimi anni in Inghilterra; conobbe Bakunin e gli internazionalisti, frequentò Cafiero e Malatesta e fece parte pure della famosa "Banda del Matese".

First Edition. Octavo. 17.5cm. Publisher's green pebble grain cloth titled in gilt to spine. [vi]; [1]; 401pp.+6pp. ads to rear. Light rubbing to corners, slight scuffing and some minor bumping to spine ends, with a small spot stain at the very head of the spine, small dent to upper edges of the boards; internally clean, with some superficial soiling to the page edges, ownership of Pennsylvania historian Gertrude Bosler Biddle to front flyleaf. A very good, clean and handsome copy. [WITH] [London: 1890-93]. Three ALS [autograph letters signed] on folded stationery sheets, as follows: 1. Dated "March 31" without year; from context, ca. 1888-1890. 2pp, ca. 250 words, in black ink; datemarked St. John's Wood, March 31. Requesting the publisher's permission to commission a German translation of his Russian Peasantry, which first appeared in 1888 with a second edition in 1890. Stepniak proposes 50/50 division of royalties and identifies the translator as [Victor] Adler, who has just been sentenced to three months in prison and thus now has "ample leisure" for undertaking the translation. Adler (1852-1918) was founder and first chairman of the Austrian Socialist Democratic Workers Party in 1888. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Near Fine. 2. Dated November 6, 1890. 1pp, ca. 75 words, in blue ink. Declines a request from his publisher to undertake a book on the Jewish Question: ".it is impossible for me to write upon any question upon Jews or anything else, for I am quite full with preparing a series of American lectures." Signed at close, "S. Stepniak." Slight smudging final two lines and left margin, not affecting legibility. Very Good. 3. Dated May 15, 1893. 2pp, ca. 120 words, in black ink. Addressed to "Dear Mrs [i.e. messieurs] Sonnenschein," accepting an invitation to visit but stating he cannot arrive early. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Light soil; Near FIne. Sergei Stepniak [aka Sergius; aka Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinskii, 1851-1895] made his revolutionary bones during the Narodnik Rebellion of 1877-78 by openly assassinating Nikolai Mezentsov, the head of the Czar's secret police, on the streets of St. Petersburg. Kravchinskii committed the act in broad daylight, and made no attempt to disavow his guilt, living publicly (if dangerously) for several months before finally escaping to Switzerland. He arrived in London around 1880 and quickly became the center of a lively Russian revolutionary exile scene. He founded the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in 1891 and wrote a number of well-received books on revolutionary Russia, including Underground Russia (which had in fact been published in translation prior to his exile), The Russian Peasantry (1888); and a fictionalized account of his own exploits, The Career of a Nihilist (1889). He was killed, somewhat mysteriously we think, by an onrushing train in December of 1895, depriving him of any opportunity to witness the fruit of his labors in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Dying young, Stepniak did not leave a great body of manuscript material behind him, and relatively few letters with good content have appeared in commerce.