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Moscow-Leningrad: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1933. First German-language edition. 19 cm. 62,[2] pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. One-inch scratch on front wrapper, rear wrapper moderately soiled, leaves toned. Very good."A Victory of World Historical Significance" A paper on the January plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, by Sergei Kirov (1886-1934), who served in the Committee. Kirov was an early Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, and close associate and supporter of Stalin. His assassination in 1934 provided a pretext for growing political repression by Stalin, culminating in the Great Purge.