DNEVNIK SOTSIAL’DEMOKRATA (NEARLY A COMPLETE RUN. NO. 1-15 & SUPPLEMENTS TO 7,8, PERHAPS NO MORE ISSUED? )
Geneva, Plekhanov, 1905-1911. Item #30686
FT) Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 24; 56; 24; 15; 40; 12; 2; 6; 20; 47; 24; 32; 52; 16; 38 pages. In Russian. Title translates to English as, “Diary of a Social Democrat. ” Menshevik journal edited by Plekhanov published sporadically from 1905-1911 containing open letters and polemics on various subjects. Issue no. 4 includes a letter directed “To Comrade X, ” likely directed at Lenin, with whom he famously split a few years prior, and a direct response to Aleksandr Martinov. CONTENTS: Patriotizm I Sotsializm [Patriotism and Socialism] --- Nashe Polozhenie [Our Position] ---Esche o Nashem Polozhenii: Pis’mo k Tovarischu X [More on Our Position: A Letter to Comrade X] --- K Agrarnomu Voprosu v Rossii [On the Agrarian Issue in Russia] --- O Chrezvyshaynom Partiynom Sezde (Otkritoe Pis’mo k Tovarischam) [On the Emergency Party Congress (An Open Letter to the Comrades) ] --- O Vozobnovlenii Moego “Dnevnik” [On Resuming my “Diary”] --- Samoubiystvo ili Bor’ba [Suicide or Struggle] --- Poslednee Plenarnoe Sobranie Nashego Tsentral’nago Komiteta [The Last Plenary Meeting of our Central Committee] --- Legal’nyya Rabochiya Organizatsii I Rossiyskaya Sotsial’-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya [Legal Labor Organizations and the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party] --- Polemicheskaya Bezpomoshnost’… (Otvet t. Martynovu) [Polemical Helplessness… (A Response to c. Martinov) ] --- K Voprosu o “Vozrozhdenii” Nashey Partii [On the Issue of the “Rebirth” of our Party] --- Chrezvychaynyy Sezd Mezhdunarodnago Sotsialisticheskago Byuro [Emergency Congress of the International Socialist Bureau]. French title across top-margin: “Le Journal d’un Socialdemocrate. ” OCLC lists one copy (National Library of Israel) . Nos. 1 & 9 covers detached and worn at edges, but present. Supplement to No. 7 chipping at edges with minor loss of text. Remaining issues are nice and clean. Very Good Condition. (RUS-11-26A).
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