JAXA-RONIKIER - DZIERZINSKI RED CAT publisher 1937.

JAXA-RONIKIER Bogdan

DZIERŻYŃSKI

"red executioner, golden heart"

2nd ed.

Warsaw, 1935 publ. by "Popular Bookstore", pp. 291, [2]; format 17.5x24 cm

The book, first published in 1933, was the author's return to writing after years of difficult life experiences and also his greatest success. It is a fictionalized story about the creator and head of the Soviet security organs, who became a symbol of cruelty and terror, which earned him the infamous nicknames Red Executioner or Bloody Felix. In addition to a portrait of the most famous Chekist, the book shows the reality of life at the end of tsarist Russia and during the revolution, as well as the backstage and methods of operation of the repression apparatus created by Dzerzhinsky.

HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER, GILT ON THE FRONT AND SPINE, HAND-MARBLED ENDPAPERS, PAGE EDGES MARBLED. PUBLISHER'S FRONT COVER PRESERVED

Condition DB/ publisher's cover after conservation, yellowing, discoloration of paper, EFFECTIVE COVER.