Ein besseres Leben, ein frohes Leben! Reden auf der esten Beratung der Stachanow-Leute und auf der Beratung der besten Combinefuhrer and - fuhrerinnen by Stalin, J. [Joseph] - 1936

San Bernardino CA: Red Star Publishers, 2017. Paperback. Reprint: 95p., a handsome little softbound in 7.5x5.5 inch glossy buttercup-yellow wraps cover-titled in black and red; it provides a fuzzy portrait of a younger Joe for frontispiece. As new: very crisp and fresh, absolutely clean and unmarked (not even by us).

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House NONE [NONE] 1958. (hardcover) 803pp. Very good. 8vo. This edition also includes a number of more recent works of significant and timely importance. Burgundy leather, gilt titles to front and spine. Boards are rubbed and This edition also includes a number of more recent works of significant and timely importance. Burgundy leather, gilt titles to front and spine. Boards are rubbed and the rear board lightly marked. Top edge stained red. Corners lightly bumped. Burgundy silk ribbon marker is lightly frayed. There is a Progress Book Service stamp to the front free endpaper; else internally is clean and bright. Tipped in frontispiece. Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Overall, a very good copy..

Petroskoi: Valtion Kustannusliike, 1937. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 93pp. Frontispiece photo portrait of Stalin. Includes "Sosialististen Sovettitasavaltojen liiton Konstitutsio (Perustuslaki). In Finnish. Rare. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall

London: New Statesman & Nation, 1934. 1st. paperback. Good, original orange printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Wrappers lightly soiled and rubbed as often, with some splitting and some foxing. Pamphlet pages tight.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). "The discussions [Wells] had with Stalin were recorded by a secretary and Wells later published an edited version as Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Record. It became clear to Wells that Stalin's vision of the machinery required to power a socialist system was not the same as his, and that Stalin's view of the bourgeoisie was less than condescending. What Wells didn't know, of course, was that Stalin was in the process of planning the wholesale liquidation of those he considered undesirable in his reformation of government"" (Feir, H. G. Wells at the End of His Tether, p. 38). Wells's deferential conversation was criticized by Keynes, Bernard Shaw, and others, whose objections Wells graciously includes in this publication. 3 caricature portraits of… Read More