Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism by Souvarine, Boris - 1939

New York: Alliance Book Corporation / Longmans, Grre & Co., 1939. First biography of the political theorist, revolutionary, bank robber, & dictator, originally published in French in 1935; translated by C.L.R. James and published in English in 1939, when Stalin was working with Hitler to dismantle Poland and the world on the eve of war. The author was a Bolshevik and co-founder of the French Communist Party who became disenchanted with the movement, later working against Communism. Stated third printing. Stout hardcover, full burgundy buckram, gilt titling. Light wear to book, corners bumped, endsheets foxed, name on free endsheet; jacket torn & chipped, missing quite a bit from the margins and head of spine. Text clean; xiv, 690 pages; index.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 6¾" by 9¾".