Zinov´ev [Radomysl´skii-Apfel´baum], G[rigorii] [Evseevich] (1883 - 1936)
[Chekhonin, Sergei Vasil´evich (1878 - 1936)], artist.
Mirovaia revolitsiia i Kommunisticheskii internatsional. Perevod rechi na s'ezde germanskoi Nezavisimoi partii v Galle 14 okt.1921 g. Petrograd, 1921. [98p.] €1500,00
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8vo, publisher´s wrs. in color. Zinoviev´s portrait in elaborated floral frame sorrounded with early communist insignia, designed by S.V.Chekhonin (1878 - 1936) on front cover. VERY GOOD. NO COPY KNOWN IN PRIVATE DOMAIN OR MAJOR ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS (AS BY 2012-12-28)

On the back cover: 'Izdatel´stvo Kommunisticheskogo internatsionala. Vtoroe izdanie'. A rubber stamp of the period ' Professor Dr. Carl G[...] Wien' on title page.

Zinoviev is best remembered as the longtime head of the Communist International and the architect of the several failed attempts to transform Germany into a communist country during the early 1920s.

No record was found in 'Knizhnaia letopis´' for years 1921, 1922 and 1923. Not in David King collection, not in Wolfgang Thiede 'Socialistica' collection of 18 000 items, not in Dom Plekhanova, St.Peterburg collection of socialist and radical literature.