Anton Antonovich Kostiushko-Valiuzhanich, 1876 - 1906

Moskva (Moscow): Izdatelstvo vsesoiuznogo obshchestva politkatorzhan i ss.-poselentsev, 1926. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4 3/4; pp. 3-32; beige wraps, printed and ruled in black and red, illustrated with an woodcut; small nicks with minor loss to lower corner and tail of spine; small manuscript number to back wrap; mild, uniform age-toning to pages; very good condition.Published as No. 4 of "Katorga i ssylka" Deshevaia biblioteka (Cheap Library) series, the book was written by a political prisoner of the Stalin Purges - Jewish-Belarusian (truncated) Grigorii Isaakovich Lure (1878 - 1938) - who was shot for being part of a counter-revolutionary, terrorist organization. A short biography, the work commemorated the life of Anton Antonovich Kostiushko-Valiuzhanich (1876 - 1906) - member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and editor of "Zabaikalskii rabocii" - the organ of the Chita RSDLP committee. He was exiled and placed in the Irkutsk forced labor camp, which he escaped and became the leader of the armed uprising in Chita in 1905 and 1906. He was captured and shot in January of 1906. "Katorga i ssylka" was an early Soviet journal, which was a platform for Social Democrats' penal memoirs. (Inventory #: 002444)