Description

A Turkish translation of Gorky’s work on Lenin with an attractive cover design was made by a medical doctor Fuat Sabit (1887-1957), who came in contact with communism around 1920 in Baku. He became one of the founders of the Turkish Communist Party and insisted, that all Muslims in the Caucasus embrace communism as protection against Armenian and Georgian imperialism (Richard G. Hovannisian, Armenia and the Caucasus in the Genesis of the Soviet-Turkish Entente, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr., 1973), p. 143).

In 1928, Fuat Sabit retired from the medical profession and dedicated himself to wine growing. In the same period he translated this book. During WWII, he joined the army, again as a medical doctor, a profession he would continue until his death in 1957.

Worldcat lists two institutional examples (International Institute of Social History (IISG), Boğaziçi University Library).

References: OCLC 70043281.