Dioneo [Shklovskii, Isaak] [England: 1914–1919. In five years]. Anglia: 1914–1919. Za piat’ let.

Paris, Russkoe knigoizdatelʹstvo v Parize Jacques Povolozky & Co., [1920].
8vo, 100 pp.

In original wrappers.
In good condition, light wear and chipping to wrapper edges, small losses along spine, small nicks to spine extremity.

First and only edition.

Isaak Shklovskii (1864–1935), who wrote under the pen name Dioneo, was a writer, ethnographer, and translator who authored this book about England during the Great War, covering preconditions and consequences of the war, public opinions, military budget, conscription, course of military operations, rebellions in Africa and Dublin, condition of the workers, impressions of Revolutionary Russia.
In 1887, while studying at the University of Kharkov, Shklovskii was arrested on charges of being connected with a branch of the revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volia (The People’s Will), which gave birth to the Socialist Revolutionary and Populist Socialist Parties. He was exiled to the remote Yakut Territory in northeastern Siberia, where he spent five years. In 1896, while working for the newspaper Russkie Vedomosti and monthly review Russkoe Bogatstvo, Shklovskii was sent to London. There, he wrote sketches about his impressions of British life and the development of British democracy. Shklovskii’s articles were published in British periodicals such as The Daily Chronicle and The Academy. Although his works are not well-known today, Shklovskii was an authoritative specialist on England in the Russian press and one of the most distinguished leaders of the anti-Bolshevik opposition in emigration. In 1919, he published the book Russia Under the Bolsheviks.