{"product_id":"the-first-yugoslav-editions-together-of-the-communist-manifesto-after-the-communist-victory-of-1945-komunisticki-manifest-комунистички-манифест-i-e-the-communist-manifesto-translated-by-mosa-pijade","title":"[THE FIRST YUGOSLAV EDITIONS TOGETHER OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AFTER THE COMMUNIST VICTORY OF 1945] Komunistički manifest \/ Комунистички манифест [i.e., The Communist manifesto]. Translated by Moša Pijade","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARX, KARL (1818-1883) \u0026amp; ENGELS, FRIEDRICH (1820-1895).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBelgrade: Borba, Biblioteka Marksizma-Lenjinizma, 1945.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOriginal wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (19.5 x 14.5 cm). Two parallel editions: the Croatian edition in Latin script and the Serbian edition in Cyrillic. 2 books: (67, [5] p., 64, [3] p.). The Serbian edition has a vertical crease on the front cover, damage to the spine, particularly at the upper end, some pencil markings and annotations on the cover and interior pages, and slight browning to the cover. The Croatian edition is in considerably better condition, with only minimal damage to the spine; otherwise, very well preserved. Overall, a good set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe very rare first Croatian and Serbian editions of Moša Pijade's translation of the Communist Manifesto, issued respectively in Latin and Cyrillic scripts by Borba in Belgrade in 1945, during the first months of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia under its Communist-led government. Earlier Croatian translations had appeared in Budapest in 1904 and Zagreb in 1919, followed by an edition published in Moscow in 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBoth editions were published by \u003ci\u003eBorba (Борба) [i.e., The Struggle]\u003c\/i\u003e, the publishing organisation associated with the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Founded in Zagreb in 1922, \u003ci\u003eBorba\u003c\/i\u003e was suppressed in 1929 and revived during the Second World War as a Partisan newspaper. Following the liberation of Belgrade, it resumed publication as a daily newspaper on 15 November 1944, becoming an important organ of the new Communist-led government.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMoša Pijade (1890-1957), born in Belgrade to a Sephardic Jewish family, was a painter, journalist, translator, and member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Arrested in 1925 for his underground communist activities, including his involvement with an illegal printing press, he ultimately spent fourteen years in prison. During his imprisonment, he translated the Communist Manifesto and, together with Rodoljub Čolaković, worked on the translation of the first volume of Marx's Capital, published in 1933. At Lepoglava Prison, he met Josip Broz Tito, beginning an association that continued after their release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDuring the Second World War, Pijade became one of the leaders of Tito's Partisan movement and a prominent member of AVNOJ. By the time these editions appeared in 1945, the political circumstances surrounding both Pijade and his translation had been reversed: a man who had spent fourteen years in prison for communist activity was now among the leaders of Yugoslavia, and his translation of the Manifesto was being published by Borba, the organ of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Borba is bibliographically recorded as the Party's official organ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAccording to the publishers' prefaces, both editions were intended to make Moša Pijade's translation of the Communist Manifesto available to Serbian and Croatian readers in their respective scripts. The prefaces emphasise that Pijade's translation corrected significant shortcomings in earlier versions that had hindered a proper understanding of the text. Both editions were translated from the German text published in Marx-Friedrich Engels: Werke und Schriften, edited by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Section III, Volume VI (Berlin: Marx-Engels-Verlag G.m.b.H., 1942). Their simultaneous publication reflected the wider effort to make Marxist literature accessible to the different linguistic communities of the newly established Yugoslav state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSources:\u003c\/b\u003e As of October 2026, OCLC records more than twenty institutional holdings for each edition. Commercially rare. “Bibliografska napomena o srpskim, hrvatskim, slovenskim i makedonskim izdanjima \u003ci\u003eKomunističkog Manifesta\u003c\/i\u003e,” in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, \u003ci\u003eManifest Komunističke partije\u003c\/i\u003e, Belgrade, 1948; bibliographical survey of Croatian editions and translations of the \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e; COBISS.SR.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Khalkedon Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67941790974083,"sku":null,"price":1750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0390\/3294\/6819\/files\/11_b44f94c4-cefe-446e-9910-23da32630b9e.jpg?v=1792320591","url":"https:\/\/khalkedonrarebooks.com\/products\/the-first-yugoslav-editions-together-of-the-communist-manifesto-after-the-communist-victory-of-1945-komunisticki-manifest-%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bc%d1%83%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%ba%d0%b8-%d0%bc%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%84%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82-i-e-the-communist-manifesto-translated-by-mosa-pijade","provider":"Khalkedon Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}