Di Konstitutsye fun der Rusisher Sotzyalistisher Sovieten-Republik [“The Constitution of the Russian Socialist Soviet Republic.”]

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Lot 210
(RUSSIA).

Di Konstitutsye fun der Rusisher Sotzyalistisher Sovieten-Republik [“The Constitution of the Russian Socialist Soviet Republic.”]

Yiddish text. A fine copy. pp. 30, (1). Original printed wrappers. 8vo. Unrecorded by WorldCat.

New York: Vanguard 1919

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Series Farlag “Avangard”, number 6. This is the earliest year the Russian Communist Constitution appeared in Yiddish. There was another Yiddish translation of the constitution published the same year in Moscow, Di Konstitutsye (grunt gezets) fun der Ruslandisher Sotzyalistisher Federativer Ratn-Republik. Mosve: Farlag fun Alruslendishen tsentralen oysfirungs-komitet, 1919. It is impossible to know which one came first.