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Shub, David : SOTSYALE DENKER UN KEMFER [VOL. 1 OF 2]

Meksike [Mexico]” Farlag Shloymeh Mendelson-Fond bar der Gezelshaft Kultur un Hilf, 1968

1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 421 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Socialist Thinkers and Fighters.” David Shub (1887-1973) was a Ukrainian Jewish political activist and revolutionary. He became involved in politics and joined the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903. Shub later became associated with the Mensheviks group. 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, and others. Shub returned to Russia to participate in the 1905 Revolution. In 1906 he was arrested for revolutionary activity and sentenced to internal exile in Siberia. Shub escaped in 1908 and 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 1924 he joined the staff of the Jewish Daily Forward, a post he held for over 48 years. Shub wrote in three languages, English, Russian and Yiddish. In 1930 Shub published an 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 (Spartacus Education, 2014). SUBJECTS: Socialists. OCLC 1251485363. Cloth lightly worn. Very good condition. (YID-33-53-LX-'e)

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