Ilin, Ivan Aleksandrovich (1883-1954)

[SIGNED] Rodina i My [Motherland and We]; O Griadushchei Rossii. Zaochnye Chteniia. Chtenie Shestoe: O Russkom Natsionalisme [About the Coming Russia. Correspondence readings. Reading sixth: About Russian Nationalism]

Belgrade: Obshchestvo Gallipoliitsev, 1926. Item #356

Rodina i My [Motherland and We].
Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 16 pages. Text in Russian. Signed by the author on the first page. The book is in poor condition.

In this work, Ilyin summarizes the program of the Russian White movement.

O Griadushchei Rossii. Zaochnye Chteniia. Chtenie Shestoe: O Russkom Natsionalisme [About the Coming Russia. Correspondence readings. Reading sixth: About Russian Nationalism].
Text in Russian. Nine sheets of paper with typescript on both sides, measuring 28 × 21.5 cm, dated October 30, 1940. Published by Madame Elisabeth de Ribaupierre in Geneve. Occasional author notes in text. Folded twice along the vertical and horizontal axis. Additional light creases to corners; edges lightly frayed; small tear along the horizontal fold.

Ilin Ivan Aleksandrovich was a Russian individual with a range of talents, including being a jurist, religious and political philosopher, publicist, orator, and conservative monarchist. He viewed the February Revolution as a short-lived issue and the October Revolution as a great tragedy and took part in the fight against the Bolshevik regime. He served as a white émigré journalist, a Slavophile, and a proponent of the Russian All-Military Union, which believed that the only way to overthrow the Soviet regime was through force.

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