Author: Schoulguine, Vassili (Shulgin, Vasilii)
Title: La Resurrection de la Russie. Mon Voyage Secret En Russie Sovietique (the Resurrection of Russia. My Secret Trip to Soviet Russia)
Description: Paris: Payot, 1927. Softcover. First French edition; 9 x 5 3/4; pp. [7], 10-298, [4]; beige wraps, printed and ruled in dark blue; closed cuts to tips of spine with small loss of paper; small creases to lower corners of first few leaves; faint, penciled in note to first free leaf; very good condition. Originally published in Russian under the title "Tri stolitsy" (Three Capitals), the book described the secret trip to Russia of politician, member of the White Movement, and notorious anti-Semite Vasilii Shulgin (1878 - 1976). Joining the army during the First World War, Shulgin was appalled by the inefficient organization if the Russian military and in 1915, he banded together with other Right-wing politicians to form the Progressive Bloc - an organization that provided the army with every necessity. He emigrated to Yugoslavia in 1920, but went back to Russia, secretly, in 1925-1926, and on his return, he described his trip and his impressions of the New Economic Policy in his current book. He was known to have said: "I thought I was going to a dead country, but I saw the awakening of a great country.. The Communists will give power to the fascists.. [Russia] has eliminated the dreadful socialist rubbish in the course of just a few years. Of course, they'll soon liquidate the Yids." (The crisis in Russia and the rise of the right. (1995). INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL, (66)). Shulgin was captured by the Soviet Army in 1944, brought back to Russia, and sentenced to 25 years for anti-Soviet activities, of which he served 12. Ill.: 0. 2.

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