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First impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with four half-tone plates: frontispiece showing: 'Lenin in 1922', 'Revolution: Street Fighting in Petrograd, 1917' facing page 112, 'Kerensky, in 1934' facing page 176 and Trotsky, in 1931 facing page 224. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. A very few light surface line marks. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. ***270 pages including bibliography and index to the rear. 224mm x 148 mm. ***Contents: Chapters: Zürich Prelude; Nicholas the Bloody; Holy Russia; Rasputin; Sinner's End; Eleventh Hour; The Eight Days; New Masters; Zürich Interlude; The Sealed Train; Uneasy Spring; The Army; Agents Provocateurs; July Days; Kornilov; The Die is Cast; Soviet Sunday; Smolny Plans; Smolny Strikes; Bibliography; Index. ***'What the Grand Dukes, the Generals, and the Duma failed to do, the women of Petrograd accomplished. They lit the fuse of the mine whose explosion was to make an end of monarchy in Russia. On Wednesday the 22nd of February 1917 the capital seemed in much the same state as during the past few weeks. The atmosphere was tense, but so it had been for months past. People were nervous, jumpy, starting at shadows, waiting for they knew not what. --- Thursday dawned, a bleak, icy winter's day. Before the sun rose, the Russian Revolution had commenced'. [Quote from Chapter Seven, 'The Eight Days' p97. ***Alban Godwin Gordon (1890 - 1947) was a British political activist. Born in Aberdeen, Gordon was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and the University of Birmingham. While there, he founded the university Fabian Society. He also joined the Independent Labour Party and, through it, became active in the Labour Party. During the 1910s, he worked as secretary to Joseph Fels, as a lecturer for the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution, a lecturer at the Working Men's College, for the Fabian Society, and the National Health Insurance Commission. From 1912, he worked as a clerk for the Coventry Insurance Committee, and he became the secretary of the Domestic Servants' Insurance Society. This work led him to found the Association of Approved Societies. During World War One, he served in the British Army, reaching the rank of captain. ***First impression of the true first edition. Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 4995
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