TOLSTOY, LEO

The Slavery of Our Times

Maldon, Essex, The Free Age Press. 1900, First English Edition. Green Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 127 pages, frontispiece portrait. Translated from the Russian MS by Aylmer Maude. With introduction by the translator. Good.

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Book number: 011820

Catalogue: History

TOLSTOY, LEO.

The Slavery of Our Times.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. 1st US edition. "This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so much, is related to economic and political life". (Introduction by Aylmer Maude). 18cms x 12cms x 2cms. Contents: I.Goods-Porters Who Work Thirty-Seven Hours; II. Society's Indifference While Men Perish; III. Justification of the Existing Position by Science; IV. The Assertion of Economic Science that Rural Labourers must Enter the Factory System; V. Why Learned Economists Assert what is False; VI. Bankruptcy of the Socialist Ideal; VII. Culture ir Freedom? VIII.Slavery Exists Among Us; IX. What is Slavery? X. Laws Concerning Taxes, Land and Property; XI. Laws the Cause of Slavery; XII. The Essence of Legislation is Organised Violence; XIII. What are Governments? Is it Possible to Exist without Governments? XIV. How can Governments be Abolished? XV. What Should Each Man Do? An Afterword. Pp.xxxii/186, owners' details to front free endpaper, portrait frontispiece, endpapers and title page toned. Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, wear to spine edge and top and tail. Scarce in this early edition. G+.

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Book number: 51688

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Leo Tolstoy Slavery of Our Times Politics History Government Legislation Culture Freedom Organised Violence Labourers 53054 Politics