I Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official by Kravchenko, Victor - 1946-01-01

Penguin Books, UK, 1975. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good..

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In blue cloth. No jacket..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. 496 pp. Yellowed endpapers. Navy cloth with gilt titles. Head and tail of spine lightly worn, corners lightly bumped, small stains. Red and black DJ. Small chips and tears, wear along the edges. VG-/VG-. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Used. Hardcover, dust jacket, the book has a rip page 496 pp. I Chose Freedom: The Personal Political Life of a Soviet Official is a book by the Soviet Ukrainian defector Viktor Kravchenko. It was a bestseller in USA and Europe. The book was written in 1946 by a defector from the Soviet Union, Victor Kravchenko, and published in 1947. A review was published in the New York Times that year. I Chose Freedom depicts many episodes in Soviet history, including the Soviet Famine of 1932-1933, the Gulag system, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939). The success of I Chose Freedom can be largely credited to the author's career as a British propaganda asset, and the heavy support the book received from the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the UK Foreign Office which specialised in disinformation, anti-communism, and pro-colonial propaganda. The British government, through the IRD, bought the foreign rights to I Chose Freedom and then… Read More

Readers Union ltd. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, large chips. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949.

Readers' Union. 1949 Readers' Union edition hardback; no dj; good clean copy, some loosening at internal front and rear hinges; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Good. Hardcover. 1949.

Readers Union ltd, 1949-01-01. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age.

Garden City. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1947. Book Club (BCE/BOMC)/browning Pages. Hard Cover.

C. Scribner's sons, 1946T. hardcover. Good. 1.0236 8.5039 5.6693. March 1949 hardcover in good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the black spine and cover. No dust jacket.

496 pp. Used but in VG cond. A crack. Inscription by the author dated 1948 (?).