Malo vypolnit promfinplan, Nado perevypolnit. [The Working-Plan Must Not Only Be Carried Out, but Surpassed].
Published/created in: [1930s]
£500
Great design for a postcard of typical economic propaganda, by a Communist enthusiast and victim of Stalin.
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Lwów and the Lwów Region.
Published/created in: May 1945
£1,450
May 1945: World War II comes to an end, the Soviet are in Poland and Ukraine. It is time for the anti-Soviet Polish exiled to lobby the world's powers to restructure Poland as they wish to - that is including all its former regions, such as Eastern Galicia and Lvyv... This booklet is their detailed argumentation, with a wealth of explanations and statistics, and three maps. A fascinating read. Scarce: only 3 copies traced in the US.
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MALTUS [Thomas Robert MALTHUS] and P. A. BIBIKOV (transl.)
Opyt o zakone narodonaseleniia ili izlozhenie proshedshago i nastoiashchago deistviia etogo zakona na blagodenstvie chelovecheskago roda […] [Essay on the Law of Population]
Opyt o zakone narodonaseleniia ili izlozhenie proshedshago i nastoiashchago deistviia etogo zakona na blagodenstvie chelovecheskago roda […]. [Essay on the Law of Population]
Published/created in: 1868
£2,750
Scarce first Russian edition of a major landmark of economic literature, the Essay on the Principle of Population, first published in English in 1798. An interesting edition with much material added by the translator Bibikov.
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Noveishii polnyi pismovnik ili vseobshchyi sekretar. [The Newest Complete Letter-Writing Manual, or General Secretary]
Published/created in: 1820
£1,750
A great resource for any Russian writing letters at the beginning of the 19th century: from love letters in verses to business and administrative correspondance, or official letters to the highest-ranked people, everything is included in this rare work. No copy of this edition traced outside Russia.
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Rossiiskaia statistika. [Statistics of Russia]
Published/created in: 1832
£1,750
Fascinating read about Russia under Tsar Alexander I, the Russia which saw Napoleon, Krylov, Griboedov, Pushkin... Atrractive example of the first edition, with a wealth of information on all themes. Very rare in the West.
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Fortune, March 1932, Volume V, Number 3.
Published/created in: 1932
£450
A superb cover for a richly illustrated and interesting content: the Fortune Magazine issue focusing on the 'Soviet miracle'.
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[LENIN, pseud.:] Vladimir ILIN [pseud. for Vladimir Ilyich ULIANOV]
Razvitie kapitalizma v Rossii. Protsess obrazovaniia vnutrenniago rynka dlia krupnoi promyshlennosti [The Development of Capitalism in Russia. The Process of Formation of a Home Market for Large-Scale Industry]
Razvitie kapitalizma v Rossii. Protsess obrazovaniia vnutrenniago rynka dlia krupnoi promyshlennosti. [The Development of Capitalism in Russia. The Process of Formation of a Home Market for Large-Scale Industry]
Published/created in: 1899
£4,750
First edition of Lenin's first substantial work, and one of his first two books published in 1899. A landmark economic analysis.
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Zamechatelnyia bogatstva chastnykh lits v Rossii. [Remarkable Wealths of Private Individuals in Russia]
Published/created in: 1885
£1,250
Fresh example of this extensive, high-quality, and very unusual study of private wealth in tsarist Russia. A fascinating and very informative read, curiously authorised by the censors.
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