Osnovy dela Natsionalʹno-Trudovogo Soiuza [Fundamentals of the Work of the National Labor Union]

Item #1445

24 pages. 22 cm. Wrappers foxed and toned, especially along spine and edges; interior sound and unmarked. The accompanying leaflets are in good condition.

An exceptionally rare early programmatic publication of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS), issued without indication of place or date—typographically produced in postwar Germany, likely in the 1940s (According to OCLC #29513202 published in the 1930s). The covert nature of the publication reflects the precarious position of Russian émigré organizations operating under threat of Soviet surveillance and infiltration. According to Rostislav Vladimirovich Polchaninov, writing in Za svobodnuiu Rossiiu, no. 65 (September 2005), this edition was printed “by typographic means, and also illegally... without indication of place or year of publication.”

This copy is accompanied by two leaflets. The first is a large bilingual (Russian-German) folded broadsheet titled Volksaufstand in Ungarn [Popular Uprising in Hungary], published by the Revolutionary Staff of the NTS in response to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It includes graphic accounts of Soviet repression and calls for solidarity among oppressed peoples behind the Iron Curtain. The second is a smaller bilingual flyer (Russian-Hungarian) issued by the same Revolutionary Staff, with a vivid red “SAMPLE” watermark stamped diagonally across it, urging Soviet soldiers to defect and align themselves with the revolutionary cause.

Price: $200.00