Rare edition of Lenin´s pamphlet on Kautsky 1920
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LENIN, N. (but V. I.). (Title in Russian): Proletarskaia revoliutsiia i renegat Kautskii. Izdanie tsentrispolkoma. ("The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky). No place (R.F.K.P.A. [=Russian Faction of the Communist Party of the USA]) 1920.
8:o. (5), 6-144 pp.
Publisher's original green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine (oxidated). Rare.
First American edition of the first book published by the R.F.K.P.A., a small group of American communists of Russian origin. The work is a response to Kautsky's polemical work "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat" (Vienna 1918), which Lenin regarded as an almost personal insult.
Kautsky's work was banned and the present work was issued and distributed free of charge to all of Russia's libraries and reprinted in every possible language from 1920.
This edition was printed in an edition of about 1000 copies and distributed by Max Maisel (a Russianborn book dealer, who specialized in Russian radical literature, he was also the first publisher of Karl Marx in the USA).
Maisel was not able to sell too many copies of the book, and almost the entire run was kept in his warehouse up to the early 1950's.
After the death of Maisel the entire stock of his company was sold to a prominent Russian bookdealer Nicholas Martianoff, a former associate and one time secretary of Kerensky.
Martianoff considered all radical literatur held at Maisel's shop wothless and sent it to a paper mill in New York.
Karl Johann Kautsky (1854-1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognized as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the coming of World War I in 1914 and was called by some the "Pope of Marxism." Following the war, Kautsky was an outspoken critic of the Bolshevik Revolution and its excesses, engaging in polemics with V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky on the nature of the Soviet state.(Wikipedia).
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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Auktionsnummer:
6257
Datum:
2015-06-16