[Title in Yiddish] Dos Untererdishe Rusland [Underground Russia]

  • New York: Max Maisel, 1921
By Sergei Stepniak aka Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky; Avraham Frumkin [trans.]
New York: Max Maisel, 1921. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Max Maisel, 1921. First Yiddish-Language Edition in a later dust jacket, translated by Frumkin. Octavo. 253pp. Text in Yiddish. Printed dust jacket with later date (1929), presumably a later issue, though we have been unable to locate any other copy in dust wrapper for comparison. Red pebbled cloth lettered in black. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and edgeworn with chip to base of spine and several closed tears. Light wear to spine ends of boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good.

Uncommon Yiddish edition of Stepniak's survey of radicalism in Imperial Russia, originally published in 1882 and featuring Sophia Perovskaya, Peter Kropotkin, and Hesya Helfman.

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