Seven Years in Soviet Russia - With a Retrospect

Scheffer, Paul (translated by Arthur Livingston)

Edité par Putnam, London, 1932

A propos de cet article

1931 or 1932. Presumed first UK edition. xvi, 357pp. Paul Scheffer (1883-1963) was a German journalist, and, in 1929, was the first journalist to be banned from The Soviet Union for reporting the truth about Collectivisation. In November 1921, he was sent to Moscow and from then on informed about the political and economic development of Soviet Russia as a Russia expert. In Moscow, he and his wife ran a very hospitable house where journalists and diplomats regularly gathered to discuss art, literature, religion, world history and Soviet politics, and thanks to its many connections, Scheffer's salon developed into a "kind of second embassy, a forecourt of the Foreign Commissariat" for the foreign press. At the end of the 1920s, Scheffer increasingly came into conflict with the Moscow authorities, and at the end of November 1929, the Soviet government refused to allow Paul Scheffer to re-enter the USSR. Seven Years in Soviet Russia is based on his visits to all the major cities of Russia, in addition to extensive trips to Siberia and the Far East, leaving out his personal views and experiences, and he objectively describes the political and economic conditions of the emerging Soviet power. The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with red titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards and light traces of a removed label near the bottom of the front board (possibly a 'Boots Booklovers Library' label). There is wear with a little damage to the cloth on the corner tips and spine corners. The spine ends are bumped with a little damage to the cloth in the middle of the top of the spine and the titling on the spine is worn. The contents are tight and clean with partly repaired splitting down the spine gutter of the rear endpapers and there are remains of a removed label near the spine edge of the rear fixed endpaper. There is a black line on the bottom edge of the text block but no inscription.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Seven Years in Soviet Russia - With a Retrospect
• Éditeur: Putnam, London
• Date de parution: 1932
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardback
• Édition: Presumed First UK Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Politics
  • History
  • Russia