Author: [Zenzinov, Vladimir]
Title: Le Travail Force Existe-T-IL En U.R. S.S. ? Recueil de Documents Officiels Du Gouvernment Sovietique (Does Labor Force Exists in the Ussr? a Collection of Official Documents of the Soviet Government) [an Association Copy]
Description: Paris, Edite par le Comite de L'organisation parisienne du Parti socialiste-revolutionnaire russe, 1931. First Edition. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. 3-54; stapled, off-white wraps, printed in black; mild age-toning to margins; very good or better condition. Signed and inscribed by Zenzinov to renowned author, journalist, editor, music critic, and publisher Felix Stossinger (in German): "To Comrade Stossinger / best regards / from the Author / V. Zenzinov / Paris / July 18, 1931." Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov (1880 - 1953) was a Socialist-Revolutionary, author, Co-director of the Provisional All-Russian Government and participant in all three of the Russian Revolutions. Between 1905 and 1918, he would be arrested a number of times and sent to various prison camps in Siberia, Yakutia, and China, and he would manage to escape from all but one of them and through circuitous routes over several continents would return to Russia every time. While in Yakutia, Zenzinov wrote several groundbreaking anthropological works on the area and its inhabitants. He emigrated for good in the 1920s, first to Berlin and Paris, where he wrote for some of the most influential emigre journals of the time (Goloss Rossii, Sovremennyia Zapiski, etc.), later to Finland, and finally - to the US. Felix Stossinger (1889 - 1954) was born in Prague and grew up in Vienna, where he was close to Franz Kafka, Otto Pick, and Albert Ehrenstein. He moved to Berlin in 1914 and joined the Social Democratic Party. He was a member of the League for Proletarian Culture, alongside poet Ludwig Rubiner, playwright Arthur Holitscher, and journalist Alfons Goldschmidt. Stossinger fled back to Prague in 1934, after the Nazis seized power, then to France, and finally to Switzerland, where his family spent time in an interment camp in 1942-1943. One copy at Hoover Institution; none in the trade (as of February 2020). Very good .

Keywords: Labor Force, Politics


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