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Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By: Alexander, John T.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2292064

ISBN: 0195052366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Edges lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned, clipped newspaper review laid in. 1989 Hard Cover. xii, [2], 418 pp. 8vo. One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history. Portr...
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The Romanovs: Three Centuries of an Ill-Fated Dynasty

By: Almedingen, E.M.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1966

Seller ID: 2297520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Smudge on rear board. 1966 Hard Cover. 333 pp. CONTENTS: Genealogical Table; Acknowledgments; Preface; The World They Entered; Father and Son; A Woman at the Kremlin; The First Emperor; The Ladies' Hour; 'We, Catherine the Second;' 'A Reign Fantastical;' Alexander the Blessed; The Crowned Policeman; The Liberator; The Dwarfed Titan; The World They Left; Index.
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The White Book: Evidence, Facts, Documents - Part I: Rightless in an Alien World; Part II: Espionage and Subversion under Cover of 'Human Rights' Campaign

By: Association of Soviet Lawyers; Smirnov, L.; Modjoryan, L.; Modrzhinskaya, E.; Bannov, B.; Gorshunova, Tatyana; Grace, Yevgenia

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Moscow, Progress Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: 2205906

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket lightly toned, 1/4 inch closed tear on front jacket edge. 1981 Hard Cover. 246, [2] pp. 8vo. A Cold War propaganda piece claiming the emigrants 'from the USSR to the capitalist world are oppressed and deprived of rights. It tells that freedom of the individual in the West means unemployment, social inequality, humiliation, and family tragedies. The book gives evidence of how imperialist special services make use of freedom of movement for ideological subversion and espionage against the USSR.
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1812: The Great Retreat, Told by the Survivors

By: Austin, Paul Britten

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Greenhill Book: 1996

Seller ID: 2305545

ISBN: 1853672467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine head lightly bumped. Smudge on page ridge. 1996 Hard Cover. 464 pp. 1812: The Great Retreat tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting out on what was to be a long and terrible march to the glittering city of Moscow. Only 100,000 were to reach it. Forced to turn back in the face of winter's onset, almost nothing of the drastically reduced army lived to recross the Niemen River. Using ...
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Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair

By: Beschloss, Michael R.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1988

Seller ID: 2291683

ISBN: 0060155655

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Uncovers the story of Francis Gary Powers's flight in a CIA U-2 spy plane into Soviet airspace two weeks before a vital Paris summit meeting in 1960 between Eisenhower and Khrushchev.
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The Secret Road to World War II: Soviet Versus Western Intelligence, 1921-1939

By: Blackstock, Paul W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chicago, Quadrangle Books: 1969

Seller ID: 2289269

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine and bottom edge of panels lightly toned, jacket very lightly rubbed, very minor tear along top edge of front jacket panel. 1969 Hard Cover. 384 pp. In this extraordinary book, Paul Blackstock, a former intelligence research specialist, reveals the story of a covert struggle between espionage agencies of Russia and the West in the years between the two world wars. Using original sources from diplomatic archives and personal papers, Mr. Blackstock traces the highlights of this secret war which culminated in the Great Purges, decimated the Soviet military command, and left Stalin in ...
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Life and Thought in Old Russia

By: Blinoff, Marthe

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., The Pennsylvania State University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2291690

ISBN: 0271730773

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, ink name on front flyleaf. 1961 Hard Cover. 222 pp. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 7. CONTENTS: Preface; 1. People and Places; 2. Manners and Society; 3. Popular Beliefs and Traditions; 4. Faith and the Church; 5. Book Learning and Education; 6. Art and Esthetics; 7. National Consciousness and Ideologies; A Brief History of Russia; Chronological Tables.
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Glimpses of Foreign Lands and People

By: Chapin, William Wisner

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick H. Hitchcock: 1926

Seller ID: 2263617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Special edition limited to 500 copies. Ink gift note on front endpaper. Small abrasion to base of rear board. 1926 Hard Cover. x, [2], [895]-996, 1047-1070, [1]-101, [3] pp. William Wisner Chapin produced 130 hand-colored lantern slides of Korea that are housed in the permanent collection of George Eastman House. These were used to illustrated his National Geographic Magazine article, 'Glimpses of Korea and China,' published in November 1910. Both the lantern slides and the article were products of Chapin's 1909 world tour.
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The Lost Fortune of the Tsars

By: Clarke, William

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1995

Seller ID: 2292061

ISBN: 0312131186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1995 Hard Cover. xviii, [4], 312 pp. 8vo. Genealogical table, black-and-white photographs. After the Bolshevik murder of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and other members of the Russian royal family in 1918, what became of the Romanov jewels, Faberge eggs, yachts, money, gold and investments? Separating rumor from fact, Clarke, former financial editor of the London Times, provides solid answers in an inquiry that reads like a good detective mystery.
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The Romanovs

By: Cowles, Virginia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1971

Seller ID: 2295695

ISBN: 0060109084

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price clipped. 1971 Hard Cover. 288 pp. With colour photographs specially taken in Russia by Victor Kennett. The Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917, included some of the most bizarre, scandalous, violent and tragic figures of history. Miss Cowles, who has already published two books on the latter days of the Tsars, presents now a portrait gallery of the outstanding members of this almost incredible family, cutting away the mass of obscure and unfamiliar historical detail which surrounds them, and studying each one individually as a human pers...
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Romanovs Revisited, 1860-1960

By: Crips, David William

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sweden, Rosvall Royal Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2303487

ISBN: 9197567116

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Corners of boards lightly bumped. 2005 Large Hardcover. 94 pp. A unique collection of Romanov pictures, some extracted from old and forgotten glass-plates, others from old Cabinet portraits, Postcards and private snapshots.
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Nicholas II: The Interrupted Transition

By: d'Encausse, Helene Carrere; Holoch, George

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Holmes & Meier: 2000

Seller ID: 2290590

ISBN: 0841913978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2000 Hard Cover. xiii, [1], 321, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the last Emperor of Russia, translated into English from French historian Helene Carrere d'Encausse's 1996 original by George Holoch. d'Encausse examines Nicholas's early life, and the reasons for the Romanov dynasty's decline and ultimate demise.
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A Visit to St Petersburg, 1824-1825

By: de Wassenaer, Cornelie; Vinogradoff, Igor

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Norwich, Michael Russell: 1994

Seller ID: 2289598

ISBN: 0859551458

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1996 2nd printing. An exceptional copy. 1994 Hard Cover. 160 pp. 8vo. An early 19th century journal detailing a visit to St. Petersburg, written by a woman who served as maid of honour to the Princess of Orange-Nassau, youngest sister of Emperor Alexander I. Translated from the French and edited by Igor Vinogradoff.
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Catherine the Great and the Russian Nobility: A Study Based on the Materials of the Legislative Commission of 1767

By: Dukes, Paul

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1967

Seller ID: 2283806

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed and a bit toned with two small spots on rear panel, minimal pencil marginalia in first couple chapters and index, bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped, ink stamp over list price on top corner. 1967 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 268, [4] pp. 8vo. Dukes constructs a clear, analytical picture of the attitude of the nobility to the chief questions of the day. The numerous instructions and debates initiated by the Commission provide evidence of contemporary opinion on serfdom, agriculture, industry and commerce; the qualifications for noble status and the rights and privil...
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Conspiracy Against the Tsar: A Portrait of the Decembrists

By: Eidelman, N. [Natan]; Carlile, Cynthia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Moscow, Progress Publishers: 1985

Seller ID: 2290450

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket edges rubbed. 1985 Hard Cover. 293, [3] pp. 8vo. Photographic endpapers. Includes section of black-and-white photographs. In this book, the well-known Soviet historian Natan Eidelman describes Russia's first, aristocratic revolutionaries - the Decembrists, who staged an insurrection in 1825 against Tsar Nicholas I in an attempt to reform socio-economic life in Russia. The narrative focusses [sic] on a psychological portrait of the most prominent members of the Decembrist movement, on their subsequent fate, and the influence of their ideas and deeds on the generations that followed. Eide...
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Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914

By: Engel, Barbara Alpern

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2289561

ISBN: 0521442362

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Minimal ink marks in text. Review letter and typed comment sheet laid in. This copy belonged to Professor Brenda Meehan of the University of Rochester, who specialized in Russian studies. 1994 Hard Cover. This book charts the personal dimensions of economic and social change by examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration from the village to the factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the outbreak of World War I. The author uses case studies to explore the effects of urbanization and industrialization...
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The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Nice (English Edition)

By: Fricero, Emmanuel

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Italy, Bonechi: 1994

Seller ID: 2297679

ISBN: 8870094103

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Near fine. 1994 Large Softcover. 31 pp. English edition. CONTENTS: The Construction of the Cathedral; The Decoration of the Cathedral; The Chapel in Memory of the Tsarevitch Nicholas.
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The Last Journey (16-17 July, 1998)

By: Gendrikov, V.; Sen'ko, S.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, The State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg: 1999

Seller ID: 2296598

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1999 Stapled Binding. On the night of 16-17 July, 1918, the last Russian emperor Nicholas II, his family and retainer were massacred in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. This was one of the most tragic events in twentieth-century Russian history.
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With Napoleon in Russia

By: General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza; Hanoteau, Jean; Libaire, George

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1935

Seller ID: 2304238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Half-inch tear to cloth spine head. 1935 Hard Cover. xxiv, 422 pp. The memoirs of his foreign minister as Napoleon left his retreating armies and returned to Paris in the dead of winter, this is by far the most vivid and realistic portrait of the famous emperor during the most disastrous campaign of his military career.
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St. Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City

By: Giroud, Vincent

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, The Beinecke Library / Yale University: 2003

Seller ID: 2287718

ISBN: 084573153X

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pages very faintly toned. 2003 Large Softcover. 143 pp. This book celebrates the unique collections of Yale University, chiefly of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on the occasion of the tercentenary of the city of St. Petersburg. They are unique in that we have here those accounts of early visitors to the capital of the Russian empire set down in books and manuscripts. Other material includes engravings, maps, and photographs, especially a number of candid snapshots of the last tsar and his family.
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Bolshevism: Its Cure

By: Goldstein, David; Avery, Martha Moore

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Boston School of Political Economy: 1919

Seller ID: 2159314

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Rear free endpaper removed, rear hinge just starting, ink owner note on front endpaper. 1919 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, [2], 414 pp. An indictment of Bolshevism, by the authors of the 1903 work Socialism: The Nation of Fatherless Children.
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Catherine the Great: Autocrat and Empress of All Russia

By: Grey, Ian

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1961

Seller ID: 2307099

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket stained, some large tears to jacket edges. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1961 Hard Cover. 254 pp. Catherine II of Russia was the most remarkable monarch of the eighteenth century. New York Times bestselling historian Ian Grey paints an illuminating portrait of an enigmatic woman of compelling charm and elegance. She had a prodigious appetite for work, great curiosity, and boundless ambition and vanity, and she was notorious for the number of her lovers. Her prodigal expenditures and patronage of the arts made her reign an era of splendor while her foreign policy and conqu...
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The Foreign Ministers of Alexander I: Political Attitudes and the Conduct of Russian Diplomacy, 1801-1825 (Russian and East European Studies)

By: Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1969

Seller ID: 2283805

ISBN: 0520013875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1969 Hard Cover. xxvi, 367, [1] pp. 8vo. An examination of early 19th century diplomacy in Russia, focusing on eight foreign ministers: Panin, Kochubei, Vorontsov, Czartoryski, Budberg, Rumiantsev, Capodistrias, and Nesselrode. Grimsted also studies the character and leadership of Alexander I.
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Die Geschichte der Kosaken: Wilder Osten 1500-1700 (German Edition)

By: Groper, Klaus J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Wien, C. Bertelsmann: 1976

Seller ID: 2204204

ISBN: 3570026183

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket lightly rubbed. 1976 Hard Cover. 316, [4] pp. 8vo. A German-language book on the history of the Cossacks.
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Catherine the Great: A Biography (International Collectors Library)

By: Haslip, Joan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, International Collectors Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2287176

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Ink owner stamp on front endpaper. 1977 Hard Cover. 383, [1] pp. 8vo. London Fleet Street replica binding: red boards, gilt titles and decorations. A study of the German princess who became one of Russia's most important leaders.
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Blueprints and Blood: The Staliniation of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1937

By: Hudson, Hugh D., Jr.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2307706

ISBN: 0691033498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1994 Hard Cover. xviii, 260 pp. Analyzing totalitarianism from below in a crucial area of Soviet culture, Hugh Hudson shows how Stalinist forces within the architectural community destroyed an avant-garde movement of urban planners and architects, who attempted to create a more humane built environment for the Soviet people. Through a study of the ideas and constructions of these visionary reformers, Hudson explores their efforts to build new forms of housing and settlements designed to free the residents, especially women, from drudgery, ...
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Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

By: Hutchings, Stephen C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 2289554

ISBN: 0521580099

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Brenda, to whom this book owes so much! Best wishes, Steve Hutchings'). Jacket lightly rubbed. 1997 Hard Cover. 316 pp. This book interprets the baffling complex of meanings attached by Russian culture to the concept of everyday life, or byt, and assesses its impact on Russian modernist narrative. Drawing on modern literary theory and theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a dialogue between two aesthetic systems, one predominant in Western Catholic and Protestant cultures, the other reflected in Orthodox...
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Memoirs of a Russian Diplomat: Outposts of the Empire, 1893-1917 (Yale Russian and East European Studies, 10)

By: Kalmykow, Andrew D.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2285489

ISBN: 0300012012

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Two small tears along top edge of front jacket panel, front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink name on front endpaper, page ridges lightly foxed. 1971 Hard Cover. xv, 290 pp. The eve of the Russian Revolution is one of the most intriguing and significant phases of Russian history, yet it is imperfectly understood, largely because of the biases so noticeable in sources relating to this period. These memoirs, covering some three decades preceding the Russian Revolution, have the rare merit of scholarly objectivity. A man of many achievements--including knowledge of fourteen languages-...
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Bolshevik Ideology and the Ethics of Soviet Labor, 1917-1920: The Formative Years

By: Kaplan, Frederick I.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1968

Seller ID: 2304161

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Small chip to jacket spine head. 1968 Hard Cover. ix, 521 pp. A theoretical framework of Bolshevism showing its philosophical and psychological underpinnings, and placing it in a context with Russian labor.
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Child of Change: The Autobiography of Garry Kasparov

By: Kasparov, Garry; Trelford, Donald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1987

Seller ID: 2301514

ISBN: 0091727227

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Board corners lightly bumped. 1987 Hard Cover. 243 pp. Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: ?????? ???????? ?????????, Russian pronunciation: [??ar?? ?k?im?v??t? k??spar?f]; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein,[2] 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.[3] From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 225 out of 228 months. His peak rating of 2851,[4] achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being su...
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