Rus' [Russia's] Struggle for Building Its State, 1942 original booklet edition on the historic processes of building the state of Russia.
Measures 70 x 55 mm, 96 pp. Russian text. Published in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Circulation 7,000 copies. Printed on thin low-quality paper. One central staple provides the binding. The design of the cover and very low circulation suggest that this booklet was meant primarily for libraries, to be used in college and university curriculums.
In good condition. Even though the cover has multiple tears along the edges due to the very poor quality of paper used, the internal pages are all intact and free of corner bumps, creases, rips or handwritten notations. It does not appear th
Measures 70 x 55 mm, 96 pp. Russian text. Published in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Circulation 7,000 copies. Printed on thin low-quality paper. One central staple provides the binding. The design of the cover and very low circulation suggest that this booklet was meant primarily for libraries, to be used in college and university curriculums.
In good condition. Even though the cover has multiple tears along the edges due to the very poor quality of paper used, the internal pages are all intact and free of corner bumps, creases, rips or handwritten notations. It does not appear that this booklet was ever read, which was a very ordinary fate of a politically ordered publication in the Soviet Union.
The year of publication makes the message of the book clearer. As the Nazis advanced into the Soviet territory and several "peripheral" Soviet
republics were not at all unified in opposing the Germans, the booklet emphasized the utmost importance of unity of different ethnicities and
tribes at the early stages of state building in what eventually became Russia; of having a unified centralized "fist" of a state. Note that
the title of the book refers to Russia as Rus, the name of the Norse warrior tribe that moved south during the early middle ages and
established several feudal principalities in modern-days Ukraine, Belarus and northwestern Russia collectively known as Kievan Rus (official
Soviet and Russian history books have always asserted Russia's direct cultural and spiritual descendancy from that states, even though the
claim is widely disputed by historians elsewhere).
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