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[10], 176, [2] pp. 18.5x13 cm. (7¼x5¼"), original printed wrappers. First Edition.

Virulent anti-Semetic diatribe published by the Worker-Peasant-Cossack Opposition, Russian Fascists, founded by P.S. Kovgan in 1923. In the preface, titled “Russia for Russians”, the reader is assured that the Opposition and their leaders are real nationalist-fascists and have nothing  in common with the “opposition” of that “lousy kike Trotsky”. The writer hoped that Jewry “would get rid of their false beliefs, would destroy their synagogues and the Talmud, and would join the all-nations family”. P.S. Kovgan  (1884-?), a Kuban Cossack, participated in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and was in the army of Baron Wrangel; in the early 1920s he fled Russia to Manchuria. In 1923 in Harbin, China, he organized the  Worker-Peasant-Cossack Opposition, Russian Fascist Party, just a few years after Mussolini's National Fascist Party in Italy. Recent  research indicates that it was the first Russian fascist party, the second being created in 1924. Very rare - with no copies offered at auction in the past twenty-five years, including Russian auctions. Only a few copies exist in Russian institutional libraries. Large circular rubberstamp of the Russian Cossacks Unit to title-page, a few rubberstamped numbers.