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Gurvich, Esfir'

Post-War America: The Decay of American Capitalism. The only edition.

Post-War America: The Decay of American Capitalism. The only edition.

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Gurvich, Esfir' [Post-War America: The Decay of American Capitalism]. Poslevoiennaia Amerika: Zagnivanie Amerikanskogo Kapitalizma.

Moskva, GIZ, 1937. 
8vo, XXII, 479 pp.

In original dark cloth.
In good condition, wear to corners, small tears to endpapers, glued patch on one page.

The first and only book edition. One of 8 000 copies published.

The book was authored by economist Esfir Gurvich (1895–1989), who spent time in the USA from 1930 to 1931. Gurvich was the second wife of Nikolai Bukharin, a prominent political figure who opposed both Trotsky and later Stalin. Despite their divorce, Gurvich was arrested in 1949 and remained in a labor camp until 1956.
Interestingly, according to her diaries, Gurvich did not write the anti-Bukharin preface that appears in the book, although her name is listed as the author.
The book itself covers a wide range of topics, including indicators of economic growth, American production rates, concentration and monopolies, antitrust laws, the impact of monopolies on production and price movements, banking and financial capital, and the export of capital from the USA.
It also features a 60-page section that includes an English-language bibliography, statistical tables, and a list of 'anti-crisis' legislation.
In January 1939, Robert Gale Woolbert reviewed the book in the magazine 'Foreign Affairs'.

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