This current post does the same for Nicolai Grekov's 'Soviet Chess', published in 1949 by Chess Review. Used copies are available from Bookfinder.com via Author is Grekov; Title is Soviet Chess. More than half of the book's chapters, which are listed in the following table, cover the 1930s. The comments in brackets ('[]') are mine,
01 - The Origins of Chess in Russia
02 - Petroff and His Contemporaries
03 - The Age of Tchigorin [Chigorin]
04 - The Formative Period [Alekhine; 1899-1925]
05 - 1st International Tournament, Moscow, 1925
06 - The New Generation of Russian Masters [5th-8th All-Union Championships, 1927/-29/-31/-33]
07 - The Visits of Flohr and Euwe [Botvinnik - Flohr 1933-34, Leningrad 1934]
08 - 9th All-Union Championship, Leningrad, 1934
09 - 2nd International Tournament, Moscow, 1935
10 - 3rd International Tournament, Moscow, 1936
11 - Botvinnik's Triumph at Nottingham, 1936
12 - Minor Events, 1936-1937 [the category system, titles, women]
13 - 10th All-Union Championship, Tiflis, 1937
14 - Other Events, 1937-1938 [Levenfish - Botvinnik 1937; R.Fine visit; Ragozin]
15 - AVRO Tournament, 1938
16 - Training Tournament, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939
17 - 11th All-Union Championship, Leningrad, 1939
18 - Matches, 1940; 12th All-Union Championship, Moscow, 1940
19 - Absolute Championship Match-Tournament, Moscow, 1941
20 - Tournaments, 1941-1942 [WWII takes its toll]
21 - Tournaments, 1943 [Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Moscow Championship]
22 - 13th All-Union Championship, Moscow, 1944
The phrase 'All-Union Championship' is synonymous with 'Soviet Championship'.
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