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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A first edition memoir of the Russian Revolution by White Army general and later Nazi collaborator, Pyotr Krassnoff, offering a detailed and partisan account of the fall of Imperial Russia and the rise of Bolshevism. In the publisher's original quarter dark cloth binding with red paper boards.First published in English in 1926 by Duffield and Company, New York, this is the fourth large printing of the American edition.A political and historical memoir by the Russian military officer and writer Pyotr Nikolayevich Krassnoff, recounting the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of Bolshevism during the Russian Revolution.Krassnoff briefly served as Ataman of the Don Cossack Host and attempted to establish an independent anti-Bolshevik administration in southern Russia, at times negotiating with German forces during the closing stages of the First World War. Written in exile after his defeat and departure from Russia in 1920, the memoir reflects the wider body of émigré literature produced by White officers.His later career remains controversial. During the Second World War he collaborated with Nazi Germany in organising Cossack units against the Soviet Union. He was repatriated to the USSR after the war and executed in 1947. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper boards.Externally, generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, more so to lower corners, resulting in slight loss to paper. Slight fading to spines. Discolouration and one or two spots of damp staining to spine labels, with one or two chips to lower label. slight rubbing to boards, with one or two minor scratches and handling marks. Previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper of volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…