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[Book #89584] The Twelve. Alexander Blok, Babette Deutsch, Abraham Yarmolinsky

The Twelve

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1931. First Edition [stated]. First Edition limited to 600 copies, of which 100 were numbered. This copy is unnumbered. Hardcover. The format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12 inches. Unpaginated. Illustrations. There is no dust jacket present. The cover has edge wear, tears and soiling. Author and title printed on the spine. Ex-library with library number on back cover, pocket inside the back cover, and other usual ex-library markings. Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1880 – 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic. Blok enthusiastically greeted the 1905 Russian Revolution. During the last period of his life, Blok emphasized political themes, pondering the messianic destiny of his country (Vozmezdie, 1910–21; Rodina, 1907–16; Skify, 1918). In 1906 he wrote an encomium to Mikhail Bakunin. He had vague apocalyptic apprehensions and often vacillated between hope and despair. He accepted the October Revolution as the final resolution of these apocalyptic yearnings. Because this early show of support, Blok continued to be honored by the Bolsheviks, despite his pre-revolutionary religious imagery, and his later disillusionment. In 1923, Leon Trotsky devoted a whole chapter of his book Literature and Revolution to Blok, saying that "Blok belonged to pre-October literature, but he overcame this, and entered into the sphere of October when he wrote The Twelve. That is why he will occupy a special place in the history of Russian literature." His poem, The Twelve, written in 1918, describes 12 Red Guards in the violent chaos of the Russian Civil War, who are likened to the Apostles, while "Ahead of them, Jesus Christ goes." More

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[Book #79461] Behind Soviet Power; Stalin and the Russians. Jerome Davis

Behind Soviet Power; Stalin and the Russians

New York: The Readers' Press, Inc., 1946. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11.25 inches. [2], 120 p., [6]. Illustrations. Some page discoloration noted. Some page corners creased. Cover has wear and some tears (spine). Dust jacket is price clipped and its spine is discolored and worn, several chips and tears to spine and elsewhere. Introduction by former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Includes Message to Americans by Ilya Ehrenburg. The author prior to American entry into WWI served with the Red Cross and oversaw prisoners of war in Turkestan. During WWII he served as a war correspondent in the Soviet Union. This work sought to contribute to enlightening public opinion about the Soviet Union in the initial post-war period. Jerome Davis, born Jerome Dwight Davis (December 2, 1891 – October 19, 1979), was an international activist for peace and social reform, labor organizer, and sociologist who founded Promoting Enduring Peace. Davis spent 1916–1918 in Russia. He was sent to Russia to work with German POWs. He also set up YMCA centers for Russian soldiers. Upon American entry into World War I in 1917, he was made head of all YMCA work in Russia. He opposed US military intervention in Russia in favor of working with the new Soviet Union. During the 1920s, he returned to Russia several times and continued to advocate for Soviet cooperation. His chart of the construction of the Soviet government was published in Workers' Dreadnought. By 1920, however, he had returned to the States, finished at the Union Theological Seminary and in 1922 obtained a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University. More

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