LEAVES FROM A RUSSIAN DIARY and Thirty Years After : Enlarged Edition

Text/sound w/underlining to chapters 22 thru' 27. Orange linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/faded spine. DJ/None. Sticker removal shadow to front cover verso. An admirable historical chronicle, memoir & socio-political analysis from Russian, anti-communist, Petrograd professor of sociology and poet Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1889-1968). Records & reflections of a tumultuous period in Russian history from 1900s to 1930s --- fall of Tsarist rule (1547 - 1917), Bolshevist Revolution, and subsequent rise of the Soviet Union. First published in 1924, after the author left Russia in 1922 for the USA. This 1950 "ENLARGED EDITION" is expanded by author's Forward penned in Winchester, MA, plus an additional final chapter "Thirty Years After", in which Sorokin considers how the Revolution has, since coming of age, to conclude, ironically, how it has proven to be both a great success as well as a colossal failure. 346 pgs, 27 chapters in 5 parts: Part I, 1947; II, 1918; III, 1919 - 1920; IV, 1921 - 1922; and V. Thirty Years After. Strong copy despite flaws.