Stalin

£550 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The first UK edition of Trotsky's political biography of Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and de facto leader of the U.S.S.R. Trotsky worked on the text between 1938 and 1940, but it was still unfinished at the time of his assassination in August of that year. The surviving manuscript draft was then translated from the Russian by the Trotskyist sympathiser Charles Malamuth, and published following the conclusion of the Second World War. First UK edition; 8vo (24 x 16 cm); text in English, photographic frontispiece and plates, occasional underlining in pen, a little toned, slight spotting to half-title; modern full red morocco, covers ruled in gilt, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, very good; xv, [3], 516pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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