Obshchestvo soedinennykh slav (The Society of United Slavs)

Moskva / Leningrad (Moscow / St. Petersburg): Gossudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, 1927. First Edition. Very good. First edition, 1 of 3000 copies; 9 1/2 x 6 1/4; pp. [3], 6, [1], 8-244, [6]; off-white wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with a large, fold-out plate and a map; deckled fore-edge; small loss of paper to tips of spine and closed cuts to top and bottom of wraps along spine; bookshop stamp and manuscript note to back wrap verso; overall in very good- condition.Militsa Nechkina (1901 - 1985) was a historian and academician, known for her great contributions to the study of the 19th-century Russian Revolutionary Movement. She aslo researched and wrote on the class struggle and authored the first Soviet history, high-school textbooks. Some of her most important works centered on the Decembrists, including her current book on the Society of United Slavs - a clandestine revolutionary organization founded in 1823 by officers and brothers Petr Borisov (1800 - 1854) and Andrei Borisov (1798 - 1854) and Polish noble Iulian Liublinskii (1798 - 1873). It called for struggle against despotism and serfdom and for uniting all Slavic nations, had approximately 50 members, and in 1825 it merged with the Decembrist Southern Society, but retained its own program. Its members were the most active participants in the uprising of the Chernihiv Regiment in the winter of 1825 - 1826.