*SOLD*
 
The Proletarian
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
Geneva, 1905
 
Editors: Vladimir I. Lenin, Vazlav V. Vorovsky, Anatoly V. Lunacharsky, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya[Mrs. Lenin] and others. 
 
Nos. 1 through 26 – the complete run! Measuring 45 x 30cm and in modern cloth binding.
 
The paper, an underground Bolshevik weekly, was commissioned by the Third Party Congress of the RSDLP(the forerunner of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union).
 
It totaled 26 editions, from May through December, during the high points of the political and social upheavals of the 1905 Revolution.  Lenin wrote over fifty articles for the newspaper.  He had been living in Geneva to recuperate from illness while continuing his efforts to strengthen the Marxist movement via the Bolshevik faction. After Tsar Nicholas II’s October Manifesto, Lenin felt safe returning to Russia. Shortly after his departure in November 1905, publication was suspended. 
 
Extremely rare - this is the only complete run to ever appear in sales records, and no other copies are on the market.
 
The papers are a bit browned, but still in excellent condition.  Near Fine.
 
From the collection of the renowned bibliophile, Chimen Abramsky.