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The ABC of Communism

By Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhenskii, originally published 1920

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Overall geographical spread of publications from 1919-1988 (non-interactive)

 Publication information — number of publications in various languages/countries from 1919 – 1988.

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Number of publications in each language

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