Results for: Radical & Proletarian Literature

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Contains a frontispiece by Jose Clemente Orozco, "Sinking of the Fleet - Two Scenes from a Soviet Play" by A. Kornelchuk, stories by Peter Quince & A. Barta, "Heritage" by Oscar Maria Graf, "A Mexican Artist - His Work - Five Paintings" by Orozco, "Basic Problems of Art" by A. Lunacharski, "A New Mural" by Joe Jones, "Sugar Cane - Photograph" by Tina Modotti, etc

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Contains a frontispiece & five drawings by Franz Masereel, stories by Isaac Babel, Charles Vildrac, Lydia Seifuline, Edwin Rolfe and G. Ryazheski, a letter from Clifford Odets, autobiographical notes by William Saroyan & Erskine Caldwell, "Walt Whitman" by Leonard Spier, "Franz Masereel: Belgian Artist" by Heinrich Vogeler, "A New Art" by Jean Richard Bloch, "An Interview with Sholokhov" by B. Ketilinskaya, etc

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Contains a poem by Bob Brown, stories by Bruno Jasienski, Paul Zech, & Sandor Gergely, "Henri Barbusse" by Sergei Dinamov, "How 'Under Fire' Was Published" by Simone Tery, "Four American Lithographs" by Louis Lozowick, "On Culture" by Maxim Gorki, "In Defence of Culture" by Andre Gide, "The Writer and the Class Struggle" by Dale Curran, "Novels Should Be Written by Novelists" by Robert Forsythe (pseudonym of Kyle Crichton), autobiographical notes by Alfred Kerr, John Lehman, Jose Munoz Cota, etc

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Contains stories by V. Jelezniak, I. Babel & Sandor Gergely, paintings by Ernst Neuschul & Jacob Burck, "Lenin, Hero of Folkore" by Derenik Demirjian, "Life of Esthetics" by N.G. Chernishevski, "The Negro and American Literature" by E. Clay, "Andres Carranche de Rios: Spanish Writer," autobiographical notes by Julian Sugasagoitia, Andre Gide & Albert Halper, etc

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Proletarian literary journal edited in Chicago by Jack Conroy. Nelson Algren was the managing editor. This issue contains "Love Story" by Millen Brand, "The Red Satin Dress" by Margaret Walker, "The Passing of Joe Williams," "Relief Applicants" & "A Great Man Becomes a Statue" by Norman MacLeod, "We Speak of Action" by Don Gordon, "Property" by Karl Jay Shapiro, etc

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Only issue of this journal issued in New York by the League of Militant Poets. It contains a section of poems by Nicolas Guillen and other Cuban writers, scenes from the screenplay of "Ivan the Terrible Part III" by Sergei Eisenstein and poems by Michael McClure, John Wieners, Thomas McGrath, Joel Oppenheimer, LeRoi Jones, Leroy McLucas and Paul Blackburn

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Radical little magazine edited by John Wheelwright. This issue contains "You - U.S. - Us" by Wheelwright, "When the Snow Melts in Siberia" by Kenneth Patchen, "Sonnet for Lincoln's Birthday: (An American Pacifist to the French and Austrian Workers, 12 February, 1934)" by Kenneth W. Porter," "Prosperity" by Margaret Fairley, seven poems by Sadie Fineman and others by Harry Block & Israel Sandorf

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Nice copy of a poorly-made book which is notoriously found in bad condition

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Contains "Mother" by O. Kurganov, "Surname - Unknown" by the Toore Brothers, "Two Men in a Dugout" by V. Rudny, "Lieutenant Sinyushkin" by A. Korobova, "The Commonwealth of Nations" by Wanda Wasilewska, "The Night before the Battle" by A. Dovzhenko and "After Death" by B. Gorbatov

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Contains many early surrealist texts by André Breton, Max Ernst, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, et al

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"The Whim is the official organ of the Grand Order of Whimsical Folk, under whose auspices it is published ever and anon, or say once a month at 26 Campbell St., Newark, N. J." While the magazine opens with a whimsical advertiesment for "The Graham West Side Settlement for the Uplifting of the Better Element" ("Toiling masses admitted only when accompanied by a Better Element. Respectable Persons will please check their dignity with the Janitor"), the contents are of a radical nature and certainly more serious than the title would indicate - "Forced or Free- The Two Socialisms" by J. Wm. Lloyd," "A New Conception of Hell" by Maxim Gorky, "The Storming of the Block-House," a poem by Ernest Crosby, "The Bugler's Last Word," a poem by Franklin H. Wentworth, etc. An editorial note announces the addition of Crosby to the "Whim" editorial staff

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Composed of two parts - the first is a poem entitled "The Kingdom of Bling-Blang-Blung," the second is a prose piece entitled "The Second Adventure." We have been unable to locate any copies of this edition but both L.C. and Trinity College have "The Adventures of John McCue - Socialist (with Acknowledgements to John Gilpin - Londoner) in Comic Verse and in Serious Prose," self-published by Quiggin in 1901. L.C. also has a copy "The Kingdom of Bling-Blang-Blung: A Satire Equally Applicable to Our Own Democracy and to the Realms of the Czar," self-published in 1900

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Militant poem of the march of the workers toward the overthrow of capitalism

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In this novel a "poor working boy becomes an inventor, then mill manager, and is murdered by striking workers" - Hanna

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The title of the original Soviet edition was "Nanking-Road"

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Volume of poems with some social content - "Democracy Has a Right to Defend Itself," "Japs," "Public Welfare Wolf Pack, "Sonnet to a Soldier, "Wage Slave," etc

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Essay on the second American Writers' Congress, sponsored by the League of American Writers

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According to the publisher: "The joy of work and life is the keynote of this autobiographical novel by a railroad engineer at Magnitogorsk. The author is the only remaining member of a family which was wiped out under the weight of inhuman exploitation and oppression in pre-revolutionary Russia. He lives through the early years of the Revolution as a homeless waif and a leader of the underworld. A remarkable transformation is wrought in the former thief at the Commune of Homeless Waifs. Here he learns a trade and social responsibility in the new land. The second part of the novel reveals the creation of a new man at Magnitogorsk, one of the industrial giants of the First Five-Year Plan"

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This Soviet novel won the Stalin Prize in 1948

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Historical novelette, translated from the German, about the pioneers of the Rochedale Co-operative Movement

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Reprints the Rampart Press edition of 300 copies

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This novel of the Red Army during World War II was a Stalin Prize winner

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This novel of the Red Army during World War II was a Stalin Prize winner

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This novel of the Red Army during World War II was a Stalin Prize winner

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Belfrage, a radical British journalist, was editor of the "National Guardian," which began as the campaign weekly of the Wallace campaign and continued as an independent Marxist tabloid. He was deported in the McCarthy period and thereafter appeared on the masthead as the "Guardian's" "editor-in-exile." He shared with his countrymen, Evelyn Waugh and Jessica Mitford, a fascination with American funeral customs. "Abide with Me" is his novel on that subject

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Bell's first book

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Communist poet who died of tuberculosis at the age of 29

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"A novel of depression America, of how the press cynically glosses over and distorts the reality of the times and of the growth of native proto-fascism, a bitter denunciation of the hypocrisy involved in the American right and press' cloaking themselves in 'patriotism and democracy' when gearing up for US entry into W.W.II" - Rolf Knight, "Traces of Magma: An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature"

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Bessie was a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was one of the Hollywood Ten. This is his novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe

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Novel about life in Vienna after the passage of anti-Jewish legislation