Herndon, Angelo [Let Me Live]. Ia Budu Zhit’.

Translation by M. Astrakhan and E. Romanova.
Book design by A. Surikov.

Moskva, Molodaia gvardiia, 1938. 
8vo, 262 pp.

In original green cloth.
In good condition, wear to spine and corners, owner signature to title.

This translation is of the autobiographical book by Angelo Herndon (1913–1997), an African-American labor organizer who was arrested and convicted of insurrection in 1932 after attempting to unite black and white industrial workers in Atlanta, Georgia. Herndon was defended by the International Labor Defense, the legal arm of the Communist Party of America, and his case gained national prominence. By the late 1940s, Herndon had left the Communist Party, relocated to the Midwest, and lived there quietly.
In the USSR, Herndon's case was used for propaganda purposes, and in 1938, just a year after the original book was published, three editions appeared in Russia. However, the book was never republished thereafter.

We couldn't trace any copy of this edition via OCLC.