How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking. Rare edition published for the Soviet elite

Carnegie, Dale [How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking]. Kak Vyrabotat' Uverennost' v Sebe i Vliiat' na Ludei, Vystupaia Publichno. 

Moskva, Progress, 1981.
8vo, 184 pp.

In original wrappers and modern clamshell box. 
In good condition, lightly spotted, stamp to front cover.

The first Russian translation. Very rare.

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was first translated into Russian in 1977 with the publication of 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. That year, the book appeared in two editions—one published in Vilnius (now Lithuania) and the other in Tashkent (now Uzbekistan). Both editions were issued by scientific research institutes: the Lithuanian Research Institute for Scientific and Technical Information and Techno-Economic Studies, and the equivalent institute under the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) of the Uzbek SSR. These editions were intended strictly for internal use, printed in very limited runs, and were not available to the general Soviet public.
This translation of 'How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking' is also a rare and restricted edition. It was not distributed through bookstores or libraries but was part of a specialized series prepared for Soviet authorities. Each copy in the series was distributed according to a predetermined list and marked with a unique serial number on the cover corresponding to this list. Once read, each copy had to be returned. These books were inaccessible to the average Soviet citizen and were never offered for public sale or lending.
Although the book undoubtedly proved useful for those working within government institutions, the preface frames it ideologically—as a product of crisis. It describes the work as one of several tools emerging in response to 'waves of crisis shocks increasingly affecting the economic and socio-political spheres of American society', and aimed at 'protecting the interests of monopolistic capital'. This reflects the ideological lens through which Western publications were often viewed in the USSR, even when their practical utility was recognized.
This particular copy was housed in the General Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the body responsible for managing official documentation for the Central Committee.
Dale Carnegie's books only became available to the general public in the USSR in 1989.

We couldn’t trace any copy in OCLC or in Russian State libraries.