Written by Victor Perlo, the chief economist for the Communist Party of the United State of America. The translation was published by Foreign Literature Publisher, which was founded in 1946 with the aim of increasing the translation and publication…
This collection includes poems by 28 Black American authors translated into Russian by a handful of translators. The book is arranged into two sections: interwar poetry and poetry “of our time.”
This book contains five stories from Hughes’ books Not without Laughter and The Ways of White Folk. The commentators highlight the influence of Soviet writers like Maksim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky on Hughes and provide a brief overview of the…
This children’s book serves as a poignant example of Soviet propaganda, specifically addressing racial equality and promoting communist ideals. An African American boy named John York leads a challenging life in the USA, marked by poverty, racial…
Written by a Soviet foreign correspondent, A Skyscraper Dissected takes its title from a poem by Vladimir Maiakovskii and portrays the “sharp political and social contradictions” that divided the U.S.
Political pamphlet of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine denouncing Russian 'liberation' and what it means for the independence movement in Ukraine as well as geopolitical consequences for the Balkan states.
A collection of political essays, including: Lev Tolstoy's "Patriotyzm i Uriad", Peter Kropotkin's "Politychni prava", "Lad", "Dostatok pro usikh", Jean Grave's "Konechnist revoiutsiï", ending with Mikhail Bakunin's "Zavdania sotsiialnoï…
Yevgenia Bosch, a major Bolshevik leader, writes about the events from 1917 in Ukraine, from the inception of the Central Council of Ukraine to 1918 when the Ukrainian civil war was in full swing.
A pamphlet about the 'Ukrainian Question' in light of the outbreak of the war and the threat of the Russification of Galicia to the 'Ukrainian national life'.
A pamphlet by Karl Renner, a member of the Reichsrat in the Austrian-Hungarian parliament, for the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria, which outlines the possibility of social democratic reform within Austria as a result of the impact of the…
