Shub David 1887 1973 (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In Yiddish. Two volume set. 23 x 16 cm. Volume One: (6), 316 pages. Volume Two: (4) pages, and page 317 to 580, (16) pages. With black and white photos, eight page bibliography plus index. Yellowed paper. First and last two leaves of each volume are detached. OCLC Number: 19311181. David Shub, was an authority on the Russian revolution and author of a several books including a classic work on Lenin. He was an editor of The Jewish Daily Forward for 45 years and contributed articles in Yiddish and Russian to various journals in the United States and elsewhere. His book "Lenin: A Biography," first published in 1948, is regarded as a pioneering work on the Bolshevik leader whom Mr. Shub knew in the years before the 1905 revolution. It was updated in 1966 and has been translated into many languages. Shub joined the the Social Democratic Labor Party and became involved in the revolutionary movement in 1903 at the age of 16, when he was a student in Vilna Province. In 1904 Shub left Russia and lived in London, Paris and Geneva where he met and worked with George Plekhanov, Pavel Axelrod, Leon Trotsky, Vera Zasulich, Jules Martov, Lenin, Anatoli Lunacharsky, Nickolai Bukharin and Victor Chernov, people who were to become leaders of the revolution. When the party split into Bolshevik (Communist) and Menshevik (Social Democratic) groups, Shub joined the Mensheviks. He returned to Russia to participate in the 1905 revolution and in 1906 was arrested for revolutionary activity and sentenced to internal exile in Siberia. He escaped in 1908, made his way to the United States and kept in close contact with the Russian political figures. He was highly critical of his former Mensheviks colleagues for not joining the opposition to the Bolshevik government during the Civil War. In New York Shub became a journalist for trade union and Socialist papers in Yiddish and Russian. He kept in touch with Russian revolutionaries and became acquainted during World War I with future Communist leaders including Leon Trotsky. In 1924 he joined the editorial board of The Jewish Daily Forward, a post he held for 48 years. He wrote in English, Yiddish and Russian and also solicited articles about the international Socialist movement. In 1930 Shub published a highly critical article on Joseph Stalin in the New York Times. Over the next twenty years he wrote extensively about the Russian Revolution including his acclaimed biography of Lenin. Shub's "Heroes and Martyrs," is a study of Russian revolutionaries. In scripts for Radio Liberty, the United States ? sponsored station that broadcasts to the Soviet Union, Shub quoted disillusioned famous comrades of Lenin, asserting that Lenin persecuted dissidents and perverted the ideals of the revolution.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In Yiddish. Two volume set. 23 x 16 cm. Volume One: (6), 316 pages. Volume Two: (4) pages, and page 317 to 580, (16) pages. With black and white photos, eight page bibliography plus index. Yellowed paper. OCLC Number: 19311181. David Shub, was an authority on the Russian revolution and author of a several books including a classic work on Lenin. He was an editor of The Jewish Daily Forward for 45 years and contributed articles in Yiddish and Russian to various journals in the United States and elsewhere. His book "Lenin: A Biography," first published in 1948, is regarded as a pioneering work on the Bolshevik leader whom Mr. Shub knew in the years before the 1905 revolution. It was updated in 1966 and has been translated into many languages. Shub joined the the Social Democratic Labor Party and became involved in the revolutionary movement in 1903 at the age of 16, when he was a student in Vilna Province. In 1904 Shub left Russia and lived in London, Paris and Geneva where he met and worked with George Plekhanov, Pavel Axelrod, Leon Trotsky, Vera Zasulich, Jules Martov, Lenin, Anatoli Lunacharsky, Nickolai Bukharin and Victor Chernov, people who were to become leaders of the revolution. When the party split into Bolshevik (Communist) and Menshevik (Social Democratic) groups, Shub joined the Mensheviks. He returned to Russia to participate in the 1905 revolution and in 1906 was arrested for revolutionary activity and sentenced to internal exile in Siberia. He escaped in 1908, made his way to the United States and kept in close contact with the Russian political figures. He was highly critical of his former Mensheviks colleagues for not joining the opposition to the Bolshevik government during the Civil War. In New York Shub became a journalist for trade union and Socialist papers in Yiddish and Russian. He kept in touch with Russian revolutionaries and became acquainted during World War I with future Communist leaders including Leon Trotsky. In 1924 he joined the editorial board of The Jewish Daily Forward, a post he held for 48 years. He wrote in English, Yiddish and Russian and also solicited articles about the international Socialist movement. In 1930 Shub published a highly critical article on Joseph Stalin in the New York Times. Over the next twenty years he wrote extensively about the Russian Revolution including his acclaimed biography of Lenin. Shub's "Heroes and Martyrs," is a study of Russian revolutionaries. In scripts for Radio Liberty, the United States - sponsored station that broadcasts to the Soviet Union, Shub quoted disillusioned famous comrades of Lenin, asserting that Lenin persecuted dissidents and perverted the ideals of the revolution.

Tb. Ill. Okart. 475 S. Mit Namenregister. (Einband m. Gebrauchsspuren, Papier nachgedunkelt, ohne Einträge).

Tb. Farb. ill. Okart. 493 S. Mit s/w Tafelabb., Bibliographie, Zeittafel, Personen- u. Sachregister. (Name [geschwärzt] u. Datum auf dem vord. Innend., Papier nachgedunkelt. Gut. Bilder auf Anfrage). (= Heyne Biographien 23).

hardcover. Condition: Molto buono (Very Good). Traduzione dall'inglese di Maria Celletti . 16mo. pp. 676. . Molto buono (Very Good). Manca la sovracoperta (No DJ). Prima edizione italiana (First Italian Edition). . Prima edizione italiana (First Italian Edition). Book.