Chicago: Alexander Berkman Aid Fund, [1948]. A pamphlet on the repression of Bulgarian anarchists, which includes a lengthy study on the topic titled, "Bulgaria: The New Spain, Pseudo-Liberations," a short article on Communist Concentration Camps in Bulgaria, a partial list of anarchist and anarcho-syndicalists in these camps, an activity report..... More
Detroit: American Slav Congress Michigan Committee, 1947. A program issued by the American Slav Congress of Michigan, one of the most active chapters of the national All-Slav Congress (ASC). The ASC was founded in Detroit in 1942 in response to the appeal of the All-Slav Congress previously held in Moscow..... More
n.p., [1948?]. First edition. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 27 pp, photographic plates. A report by seven American Protestant clergymen and editors of religious journals who visited Yugoslavia in the summer of 1947. They found “a genuine equality of religion before the law and the beginnings of true tolerance.” This was contrary..... More
[London]: [New Central European Observer], [1949?]. First edition. The author provides a brief history of Christian persecution by the State in Europe and then explores the legal position of the contemporary Church in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. He then describes the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant positions on the..... More
Detroit: Romanian American Publishing Association, [ca. 1949]. First edition. A relatively scarce expose of ex-King Michael of Romania and his history of graft, exploitation and fascist conspiracy. The author, editor of the Romanian progressive weekly newspaper, “Romanul American,” in Detroit accuses American big business interests of collaborating with Romania's anti-democratic..... More
Budapest: Hungarian Trade Union Council, 1950. Photo-illustrated Communist propaganda on the happy and productive lives of Hungarian working people since 1945 “when the liberating Soviet Army drove the fascists from Hungarian territory.” Includes sections on factory life, child care, social security, health resorts, and holidays. Stapled oblong wrappers (5 ¾”..... More
New York: Julius Tarlo, 1962. A collection of writings by the imprisoned Hungarian Cardinal, Jószef Mindszenty, an outspoken anti-Communist who was convicted in a show trial in 1949 and imprisoned until the Hungarian revolution in 1956. Distributed by the right wing publisher The Bookmailer. Trade paperback format, 111 pp. A...... More
Munich: Press Bureau of the Antibolshevik Bloc of Nations, 1956. An issue of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations’ monthly bulletin. The ABN was founded in 1943 by Alfred Rosenberg’s Ostministerium in support of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The organization became one of the largest post-war, international anti-Communist groups and..... More
New York: [Published by the author], 1937. “Observations on pending legislation and current public opinion” on further immigrant restriction by a Czech American who begins by stating the position of Americans of Czechoslovak descent. Prantner describes the contributions from Eastern Europeans and addresses the challenges of assimilation and the mischaracterization..... More
Washington, D.C. United States Government Printing Office, 1953. First edition. Beginning with John F. Kennedy, a series of excerpted speeches from U.S. Senators calling for self-determination for Lithuania on its 35th anniversary as an independent republic. The Soviet Union annexed Lithuania in 1944 and did not relinquish control until nearly..... More
London: 1951. Zbigniew Stypulkowski’s personal account of the arrest, imprisonment and trial of 16 Polish Underground State leaders by the Soviet authorities under Stalin. They were sentenced in the sham trial known as the Trial of the Sixteen with Stypulkowski fleeing Poland in 1945. This title was later expanded and..... More
n.p. Hayfield Publishing Co., 1967. Second printing. The abridged, pocket edition of Rev. Wurmbrand's "A Cry to the West from a Martyred Church." Wurmbrand was a Romanian Christian imprisoned and tortured for 14 years for preaching in an Underground Church while Romania was under communist rule. This copy distributed by..... More