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LENIN, Vladimir (1870-1924). Shto Delatch? Nabolevchye Voprosy Nashevo Dvishenija [What is to be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement]. Stuttgart: Verlag von J. H. W. Deitz Nachf, 1902.
Rare first edition of Lenin’s ‘ideological keystone of the Bolshevik Party’ (PMM). Lenin wrote this famous call-to-arms while in exile in Munich, intending it to appeal to revolutionary socialists and to urge them into taking political action. It advocates for better organization of the Russian movement, as well as greater centralisation of the party and a party newspaper – all considered vital means for success. He also critiqued the notion that workers were only concerned with trade union struggle, adding that ‘the revolutionary socialist’s ideal […] should not be a trade union secretary, but a tribune of the people’ (PMM). PMM 392.
Octavo (219 x150mm). (Title with some adhesion from previous wrapper, repaired tear, 2 leaves strengthened in gutter). Modern quarter black cloth over boards; modern black morocco box. Provenance: The Bund Archives (ink stamps in English, Hebrew, and Russian) — light pencil annotations — Russian commentary on one leaf loosely inserted — Michael Sharpe (label on front pastedown).
Rare first edition of Lenin’s ‘ideological keystone of the Bolshevik Party’ (PMM). Lenin wrote this famous call-to-arms while in exile in Munich, intending it to appeal to revolutionary socialists and to urge them into taking political action. It advocates for better organization of the Russian movement, as well as greater centralisation of the party and a party newspaper – all considered vital means for success. He also critiqued the notion that workers were only concerned with trade union struggle, adding that ‘the revolutionary socialist’s ideal […] should not be a trade union secretary, but a tribune of the people’ (PMM). PMM 392.
Octavo (219 x150mm). (Title with some adhesion from previous wrapper, repaired tear, 2 leaves strengthened in gutter). Modern quarter black cloth over boards; modern black morocco box. Provenance: The Bund Archives (ink stamps in English, Hebrew, and Russian) — light pencil annotations — Russian commentary on one leaf loosely inserted — Michael Sharpe (label on front pastedown).
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