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Price: $10.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1926
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2270159
Fourth printing. Edges lightly rubbed, faint stains on top page ridge. 1926 Hard Cover. 331 pp. This work is primarily a story wherein Anthony has woven the portrait of a real woman into the pattern of 18th Century politics. The reader is introduced to Catherine, the statesman, who unites Russia, destroys Poland and participates in the American Revolutionary War. The reader also sees Catherine, the jealous mistress of men, who at sixty has a lover of twenty-five. The boo... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Progress Publishers: 1981
Seller ID: 2205906
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 an... View more info
By: Baron, Samuel H.; Kollmann, Nancy Shields
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1538190
First edition. Includes original jacket. 1/2 inch surface tear on rear jacket panel.Very Good. 1997 Hard Cover. viii, 213 pp. Focusing on the lived experience of individuals in Russia and Ukraine, twelve essays explore continuity and change comparatively and in the context of larger interpretative issues, such as popular culture, mentality, and religiosity. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Superior Publishing Company: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2205333
First edition. A very nice copy.Half-inch tear to top edge of jacket front, very minor surface tear to jacket front. 1971 Large Hardcover. 127 pp. Politkofsky was a small Russian-built sidewheel gunboat that patrolled the Alaskan Panhandle in the 1860s. She was built of yellow cedar at New Archangel, or Sitka, and was 120 feet (37 m) in length and 152 tons displacement. Early copper boilers and a cross-head engine installed, and these came from an earlier ship Imperator ... View more info
By: Bergson, Abram
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1978
Seller ID: 1293513
Includes original jacket. Slight attic smell, jacket spine faded.Good. 1978 Hard Cover. CONTENTS: Introduction; PLANNING AND POLICY: Soviet Planning Reforms; Toward a New Growth Model; Entrepreneurship and Profits in the USSR; LEVELS OF OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY: The Comparative National Incomes of the Soviet Union and the United States; Comparative Soviet and American Productivity and Efficiency; Productivity in the USSR and the West; GROWTH OF OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY: So... View more info
By: Bialer, Seweryn
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1981
Seller ID: 1293531
Ink name on front free endpaper, dust jacket spine faded. Binding tight.Very Good. 1981 Hard Cover. Focuses on four issues in Soviet politics in order to examine the processes and prospects of stability and change in the Soviet Union. Analyzes changes made during the Brezhnev era, Soviet views on international relations and specifically on the competitive and cooperative relationship with the United States. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Praeger: 1959
Seller ID: 1309276
Lightly rubbed.Very Good. 1959 Hard Cover. CONTENTS: Preface; Morozov Family: The Archetype of the Russian Bourgeoisie; Bright Beginnings Come to Naught; Giant Obstacle: The State; A Puritanical Goad; Tracks to Success; Bloom and the Blight; A Distorted Image; Stunted Roots; Footnotes; Bibliography. View more info
By: Bishop, Robert; Crayfield, E.S.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Robert M. McBride & Company: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200466
First edition. Jacket rubbed with several small tears and chips along edges. 1948 Hard Cover. 287 pp. 8vo. A first-hand account of Soviet politics as it affected the Balkan states, specifically Rumania. The authors were Rumanian intelligence operatives for four years, and tell the story of Soviet abuses of power during and after World War II. View more info
By: Blinoff, Marthe
Price: $9.00
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press: 1961
Seller ID: 1532404
Includes original jacket. Lightly rubbed.Very Good. 1961 Hard Cover. 222 pp. 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. View more info
By: Bobrick, Benson
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Poseidon Press: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1748987
First edition. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 542 pp. 8vo. The history of the vast expanse of land that soon became the dreaded symbol of Soviet terror details Siberia's great events with portraits of the men and women who created or were crushed by them. View more info
By: Brody, Ervin C.
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 1972
Seller ID: 1839353
Includes original jacket, lightly foxed.Good. 1972 Hard Cover. 323 pp. A thorough and fascinating work on the son of Ivan the Terrible, who escaped assassination when he was just a boy, and his portrayals in literature since. Dr. Brody analyzes the use in two baroque dramas of the Demetrius legend. Central to it and to much of the literary interest in it are the origin, personality, and motivation of Demetrius himself, and his figure as treated in these drama is the foca... View more info
By: Brogan, D.W.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1951
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 1926286
Reprint. Lightly rubbed, exterior and front & end matter lightly foxed. 1951 Hard Cover. viii, 280 pp. 8vo. A survey of violent changes and their effects from the American Revolution to the present day. Treats the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, each with their particular political and social context. Interesting points of discussion include: promotion of class barriers by the growth of industry; nationalism as a tool for... View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Forum Press: 1979
Seller ID: 1296351
Some pages dog-eared. 1979 Trade Paperback. 88 pp. CONTENTS: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: P.V. Volobuev; William G. Rosenberg; Oskar AnWeiler; Theodore H. Von Laue; Harvey Asher; SOCIAL REVOLUTION AND BOLSHEVIK INSURRECTION: John L.H. Keep; Lazar Volin; Marc Ferro; II. Mints; Robert V. Daniels. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: B.W. Huebsch, Inc.: 1919
Seller ID: 1538083
2nd printing. Wrappers rubbed, title page faintly foxed. Newspaper article advertising book laid in. 1919 Trade Paperback. 151 pp. Two page terminal publisher ad. William C. Bullitt went to Russia on a confidential mission to arrange for an exchange of peace proposals with Lenin. This book explores how Lenin met the Allied proposals, how Lloyd George discussed the proposals and then denied knowledge of them, and how Bullitt's report of his trip was suppressed. Bullitt wa... View more info
By: Cecil, Robert
Price: $10.00
Publisher: David McKay Company, Inc.: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2205883
First edition. Pages toned.Jacket lightly toned, front flap price-clipped. 1976 Hard Cover. 192 pp. When Hitler refused to examine the possibilities of a compromise peace with Stalin, he ensured that not only Germany would lose the war, but that the Russians would be drawn into the heart of Europe's pursuit of the retreating forces of the Third Reich.KEYWORDS: SECOND WORLD WAR TWO WWII WW2 MILITARY HISTORY HITLER ADOLF RUSSIA RUSSIAN GERMAN GERMANY View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Council of Foreign Relations: 1986
Seller ID: 1293911
1986 Trade Paperback. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Brezhnev's Ambiguous Legacy; What Ails the Soviet System?; Succession and the Changing Soviet Elite; Reform and the Soviet Future; The Changing Soviet Union and the World; Appendix: A Soviet Leadership Chronology, 1976-86; Notes. View more info
By: Craig, William
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Reader's Digest Press/E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc.: 1973
Seller ID: 2205788
No jacket. A nice copy. 1973 Hard Cover. xv, 462 pp. Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signaled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. Based on 100's of interviews with survivors of the battle, this text presents the story of the bloody battle.KEYWORDS: SECOND WORLD WAR TWO WWII WW2 MILITARY H... View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1981
Seller ID: 1506990
Pages toned. 1981 Mass Market Paperback. 509 pp. The brilliant account of Russia's critical century before revolution. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267491
First edition. A couple light smudges on page ridges, corners lightly pushed. 2005 Hard Cover. xxi, [1], 484, [6] pp. 8vo. Ivan IV, “the Terrible” (1533–1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son—he has been credited with establishing autocracy in Russia. This is the first attempt to write a biography of Ivan from birth to... View more info
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Publisher: Atheneum: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203944
First edition. A very nice copy.Near Fine. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 403 pp. On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the thousands along the east bank—the Russian side—of the Vistula River. Within seconds after the order... View more info
By: Economides, Michael J.; D'Aleo, Donna Marie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: ET Publishing: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2093235
First edition. Signed without inscription by Economides on front endpaper. Jacket edges rubbed. 2008 Hard Cover. x, 444 pp. 8vo. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has taken a giant step backwards into its Soviet past, and nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of energy politics. Modern Russian politics and energy sources first oil and then both oil and gas have been inextricably connected in a way unmatched by any other major power in the history of the world. This t... View more info
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1994
Seller ID: 1292698
Includes original jacket. 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.Very Good. 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 emancipati... View more info
By: Gautier, [Pierre Jules] Theophile, et al; Tyson, Florence MacIntyre (Translator)
Price: $400.00
Publisher: The International Press / The John C. Winston Co.: 1905
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2272112
First edition thus. Former library copy, erased call number on spine base of second volume, a couple tiny ink stamps on front endpaper of first volume, otherwise no marks. Hinges repaired. 1905 Hard Cover. Two volumes. viii, 483; viii, 461. Index. 8 1/8 x 5 3/4. 8vo. Original blue cloth, elaborate embossed gilt Russian coat of arms with gilt double-ruled border on front cover, mirrored on spine, gilt spine lettering, gilt top page ridge, ribbon marker bound into each vol... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Combat Studies Institute: 1990
Seller ID: 2205200
Wrappers lightly toned. 1990 Soft Cover. xvi, 182 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs and illustrations. In the fall of 1944, some 56,000 German troops of the XIX Mountain Corps were occupying a strongpoint line just 70 kilometers northwest of Murmansk, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. To clear these enemy forces from Soviet territory, STA VKA ordered General K. A. Meretskov's Karelian Front to plan and conduct an offensive, which was to be supported by A... View more info
By: Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies: 1989
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1296295
Signed & inscribed by author. Light wear. 1989 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. CONTENTS: Archival Administration and the State Archival Fund; The State Archival Fund; The State Agency for Archival Administration; The Organization and the Administration; Arrangement an Description of Archival Materials; Soviet Archival Arrangement; Soviet Archival Description; Access to Archival Materials; Archival Functions and State Service; Research Acces... View more info
By: Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press: 1972
Seller ID: 1294305
Includes original jacket. Jacket toned & lightly stained.Good. 1972 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Greater opportunities for research in the USSR have revealed how little information on the vast Soviet archives is available to foreign scholars. This is the first comprehensive directory of archives and other manuscripts repositories in Moscow and Leningrad. View more info
By: Groper, Klaus J.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: C. Bertelsmann: 1976
Seller ID: 2204204
Light rubbing to jacket. 1976 Hard Cover. A German-language book on the history of the Cossacks. View more info
By: Guroff, Gregory; Carstensen, Fred
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1983
Seller ID: 1295872
Light wear. 1983 Trade Paperback. 384 pp. This multidisciplinary study of entrepreneurship in Russian society form the sixteenth to the twentieth century demonstrates the crucial influence of the central government on economic initiative. In both Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union entrepreneurship evolved in a setting in which the interests and power of the state were uncommonly strong. Indeed, in the last imperial decades, the state played such a large role int he ind... View more info
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Publisher: Yale: 2010
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2175594
2nd printing. An exceptional copy. 2010 Trade Paperback. This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era records of Soviet intelligence operations against the United States. Years later, living in Britain, Vassiliev retrieved his extensive notebooks of transcribed document... View more info
By: Hingley, Ronald
Price: $3.00
Publisher: McGraw Hill: 1977
Seller ID: 1539571
1977 Trade Paperback. 260 pp. Insight into the social environment of the great Russian writers. View more info
