Yakov (or Jacov) Mikhailovich Sverdlov

Izbrannyye Stat'i i Rechi 1917-1919 / Selected Articles and Speeches

Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. First printing. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth, good plus copy with some spotting and fading to spine and joints, contents VG but tanned, with mounted frontispiece portrait of author. 189 (2) pp. Sverdlov was an important Bolshevik and Party member, with a close relationship with Stalin. He is sometimes called the de facto first president of the Soviet Union for his important role in the teens and early twenties in Russia. Text in Russian. Good. Item #H10256

Price: $45.00