THE RUSSIAN SOVIET GOVERNMENT BUREAU

The Marriage Laws of Soviet Russia

New York, NY: The Russian Soviet Government Bureau, 1921. Paperback. Possible first US printing of this book. This is a smaller than trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers and a side-stapled spine. The book is in Good only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine of the book has several tears to the joints and chips missing. (some of the joint tears have been repaired. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an ink stamped notice from the publisher on the title page. This is "pamphlet number 2 of the Soviet Russia Pamphlets series. " However, not so surprisingly under these circumstances of desperate hardship and attack, and given that this was the very first socialist revolution in history, there were also some serious weaknesses in the Soviet Union during the socialist period. Mao later pointed out that after the early years Stalin and the CPSU no longer relied on the masses and mass initiative, or used the mass line method of leadership (“from the masses, to the masses”). (See the collection of Mao’s comments about Stalin listed below. ) Instead, Soviet society was ruled by orders from above, even if mostly with good intentions. The Soviet Union was therefore not governed in nearly as democratic a way as it could and should have been. Dissent was often assumed to be entirely hostile to the revolution, when in fact much of it simply reflected an inadequate understanding of what needed to be done, or was even an attempt to improve the new socialist society. And many honest workers and revolutionaries were falsely labelled as enemies or enemy agents, and were then imprisoned or killed. Moreover, even the economic aspects of Soviet socialism had some serious shortcomings because of these political problems. (from BannedThoughUSSR website). Good .

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Book number: 51264

Catalogue: Russiana

Keywords: Russia The Russian Soviet Government Bureau Marriage Soviet Russia

MOHRENSCHILDT, DIMITRI VON (EDITOR)

The Russian Review - an American Quarterly Devoted to Russia Past and Present October 1971; Vol. 30. No. 4

Stanford, CA: The Russian Review, 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. BookPlate. This is a trade sized book with cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The front cover of the book has two ink stamp stamps from the West Valley College Library. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents include: The United States and the Soviet Union - Fourteen Years in Space by William Shelton, Andrei Amalrik and 1984 by John Keep, British Imperialists in the Russian Empire by R. W. Pethybridge, The Soviet Intelligentsia and the Socialist Revolution (part 1) by Arkady V. Belinkov, and more.. Very Good .

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Book number: 47326

Catalogue: Russiana

Keywords: Russiana Dimitri Von Mohrenschildt Russia US - Russian Relations