KOSSAK SZCZUCKA Zofja
POŻOGA
Memories from Volhynia 1917-1919
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Warsaw 1935, Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Rój", pp. 286, [1], format 13x19cm
A novel by Zofia Kossak, a witness to the events of the Bolshevik Revolution and the drama of many Poles in the Borderlands.
"In a distant corner from European events, in a land tightly cut off from the Polish state that was just being formed, great things were happening, things that would decide the entire future of this country for a long time. The old order, based on the rule of the tsarist dynasty, was falling into ruins, but at the same time there was also an effort to completely demolish all traces of the culturally dominant Polishness there. The author watched the progress of these endeavors up close and had the opportunity to observe them as closely as possible, being one of their victims. (...) Thus, the description of the events that the population, whether Polish or Ruthenian, experienced from the outbreak of the Russian Revolution until the entry of the first detachments of the regular Polish army will certainly be, once and for all, one of the most valuable and reliable materials for future historians of these events?" From the Introduction by Stanislaw Estreicher to the first edition of "Pożoga".
PUBLISHER'S HARDCOVER OF THE PERIOD, WITH GILT ON THE FACE AND SPINE
Condition BDB-/ minimal rubbing of edges, minor ownership markings, otherwise a NICE piece
