Search Results: behind the moscow trial by max shachtman

New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1936. Hardcover. 142p., original spine lettering dulled, old price stamped on fornt blank end paper else very good condition lacking the jacket. "Max Shachtman, together with James P. Cannon and Martin Abern, was a founder of the American Trotskyist movement and the leading theorist in defining Soviet society as a new exploitive system of bureaucratic collectivism. For fifty years he was at the center of international social and political controversies and made significant contributions to the movements of the non-Communist Left, as a tireless agitator, an informed and formidable debater, a pamphleteer, and a brilliant and witty polemicist." *Johnpoll p. 354-5.

New York: Pioneer Pub., 1936. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Small octavo, 142 pp., the story of the 1936 Moscow trail of 16 defendents for conspiracy and their execution. A few dogeared pp. o/w v.g. cond. hardcover, no d/w.

New York: Pioneer Publishers, [1936]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Slim octavo (20.25cm.); original tan pictorial wrappers printed in maroon; [2],142pp. Long shallow loss at top of upper cover only just affecting image, tiny chip to spine crown, rear cover a bit soiled, else Near Very Good. Exposé of the first Moscow show trial, during which Leon Trotsky, who was living in exile, and 14 others were accused of conspiring to assassinate Joseph Stalin. All were sentenced to death, Trotsky in absentia.

Pioneer Publishers. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Cover and front endpages torn. Cover almost detached. Owner's name on cover. Reading copy only. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (Soviet Union, political crimes)