Soviet River by Leonid Leonov.
Forward by Maxim Gorky.
1st English Edition. 1932.
Classic Socialist-Realist story of the building of a paper mill on a river in Siberia.
Leonid Leonov and Maxim Gorky founded the Union of Soviet Writers.
Despite being an important aurthor, Leonov survived all the purges.
This is a rare book and a piece of history which delicately tows the line between pre and post famine Stalinism.
