Plekhanov, G. V. The Literary Heritage of G. V. Plekhanov. Collection III: Art (Literaturnoe nasledie G. V. Plekhanova. Sbornik III: Iskusstvo), 1936. In Russian.

Литературное наследие Г. В. Плеханова. Сборник III. Искусство.
Государственная Публичная Библиотека им. Салтыкова-Щедрина. Дом Плеханова.
Под редакцией П. Ф. Юдина, И. Д. Удальцова и Р. М. Плехановой.
Москва: Государственное социально-экономическое издательство, 1936.
432 с., [1] л. фронтиспис (портрет Г. В. Плеханова, 1909 г.). Увеличенный формат. Издательский коленкоровый переплет с черным двойным линейным бордюром и тиснением.Состояние: переплет с равномерным потемнением и легкими загрязнениями коленкора, особенно по краям и в верхней части передней крышки. Внутренний блок прочный, листы умеренно пожелтели, характерное для эпохи равномерное потемнение бумаги; фронтиспис и титульный лист чистые, текст полный. Хороший крепкий экземпляр.
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Plekhanov, G. V. The Literary Heritage of G. V. Plekhanov. Collection III: Art.
State Public Library named after Saltykov-Shchedrin. The Plekhanov House.
Edited by P. F. Yudin, I. D. Udaltsov, and R. M. Plekhanova.
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izdatel'stvo (Sotsekgiz), 1936.
432 pp., with frontispiece portrait of Plekhanov (after a photograph of 1909). Enlarged format. Publisher's cloth binding with black double-rule border and blind/black-stamped lettering.Condition: Cloth boards uniformly toned and lightly soiled. Text block sound, leaves with moderate even age-toning typical of Soviet inter-war paper; frontispiece and title page clean, text complete. A solid, honest copy of a scarce scholarly volume.

Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856–1918), the so-called "father of Russian Marxism," was the founder of the Geneva-based Emancipation of Labour group (1883) and the most important Russian theorist of dialectical materialism before Lenin. Alongside his writings on philosophy, history, and political economy, Plekhanov produced a body of work on aesthetics, the sociology of art, and literary criticism that effectively founded Marxist art theory in the Russian language — most famously "Art and Social Life" (1912), but also extensive essays on Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, French eighteenth-century painting, primitive art, and Tolstoy. The present volume, Sbornik III, is the art-themed installment of the multi-volume series "Literaturnoe nasledie G. V. Plekhanova" prepared in the 1930s by the Plekhanov House (Dom Plekhanova) — a dedicated memorial archive and research department within the State Public Library in Leningrad, established to house the personal library and manuscript archive that Plekhanov's widow Rozaliya Markovna Plekhanova transferred from Switzerland to the USSR in 1928. The series was edited by a remarkable triumvirate: the Marxist philosopher and Stalin-era ideologue Pavel F. Yudin (1899–1968); the economist and rector of Moscow University Ivan D. Udaltsov (1885–1958); and Plekhanov's widow R. M. Plekhanova (1856–1949), who personally curated and annotated her late husband's papers until her death. Sbornik III gathers previously unpublished or scattered texts on art and aesthetics, accompanied by editorial commentary and archival apparatus, and remains a primary source for the study of early Marxist aesthetics and for Plekhanov scholarship generally. The volumes of "Literaturnoe nasledie" had relatively modest print runs and many were dispersed or lost in the war; complete sets are now rare and individual volumes — especially the art volume — are in steady demand among historians of Russian Marxism, of Soviet aesthetics, and of literary theory.