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The Soviet Note on Berlin: An Analysis
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Washington, D.C.: Department of State, 1959. Department of State publication no. 6757. Light wear, toning. 53 pp.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Soviets Berlin. more information
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Central Asia: A Century of Russian Rule
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1967. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Jacket chipped and rubbed, protected now in a new mylar cover. A look back at a hundred years of Russian-style civilization superimposed on traditional Central Asian culture. This work examines the distinctive nationalities, their ethnic origins and languages; attempts at modern methods of agricylture and industrialization; the political history under the czars and Soviet leaders; and the modernization of Central Asian literature, drama, music, architecture, and art. Sixteen chapters from six different authors; 552 pages, illustrated, with glossary, index, and acknowledgements.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. RUSSIA RUSSIAN RULE CENTRAL ASIA HISTORY. more information
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Russia Abroad: Prague and the Russian Diaspora, 1918-1938
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0300102348. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Russia Russian Revolution Czechoslovakia Immigration Prague. more information
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The Czechoslovak Legion in Russia, 1914-1920
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Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, 1991. Slim blue cloth with gilt title to spine. 156 pages. From outward appearances, the book is in Fine condition, but inside there is blue ink underlining and margin notes throughout the book. The rear endpapers have been used for notes and page references. This book was very well studied, analyzed, and read by its previous owner. Still a clean reading copy.. ISBN: 0880332182. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. CZECHOSLOVAKIA HISTORY EUROPE EASTERN RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR CZECHOSLOVAK LEGION. more information
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Russian-English Technical and Chemical Dictionary
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New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1947. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Corners bumped, light shelf wear. Title page missing about one inch across top, appears to have been cut straight across. 794 pages. A good, clean copy. . First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Translation Russian English. more information
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Red Spies in the U.S
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New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1973. Jacket has a couple of edge tears and creasing to rear panel. Protected in a new mylar cover. Expose on espionage and Soviet subversion. A Cold War case study of typical Americans spying on their own country for the Russians.. ISBN: 0870002236. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. ESPIONAGE SPIES RUSSIAN SOVIET UNITED STATES FEDERAL. more information
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Twilight of the Comintern, 1930-1935
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New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. Foxing to page edges and jacket, as well as the endpapers. Otherwise, the book shows little signs of wear and is unmarked. The jacket has a few small chips at the head of the spine.. ISBN: 0394525124. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE COMMUNISM. more information
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The Secret World : The Terrifying Report of a High Officer of Soviet Intelligence Whose Conscience Finally Rebelled
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New York: Doubleday, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. SOVIET INTELLIGENCE OFFICER KREMLIN GUARD MOSCOW. more information
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Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s
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New York: Viking Press, 1980. Some light spotting to the page edges, else a fine, unmarked copy. A major study with some new interpretations of thsi era of Russian history. The 1860s were a time for revolutionary change brought about mostly by the young people. The author relates that time to 1960s America. . ISBN: 0670794597. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SOVIET UNION INTELLECTUAL LIFE POLITICS RUSSIAN RADIACLISM RUSSIA 1860S SLAVOPHILES POPULISTS SHCHAPOV HERZEN CHERNYSHEVSKY IAKUSHAKIN JACOBINS NECHAEV. more information
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The Secrets of the Service: A Story of Soviet Subversion of Western Intelligence
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Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1987. ISBN: 088184375x. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SOVIET SPIES WESTERN INTELLIGENCE MILITARY ADMINISTRATION HISTORY. more information
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The Romnovs: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty
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New York: Doubleday, 1970. 391 pages, illustrated, with notes, bibliography, and index. Light edge wear to boards. Jacket chipped and worn at the spine ends and corners. Protected now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. RUSSIA ROMANOV DYNASTY. more information
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Capitalism Russian-Style
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0521641756. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine+. CAPITALISM POST COMMUNISM RUSSIA FEDERATION. more information
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My Past & Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982. Abridged by Dwight Macdonald. 684 pages with Appendix, plus Index of Persons.. ISBN: 052004210. First Thus. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Alexander Herzen Russian Revolutionary Socialism. more information
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The State of Soviet Studies
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1965. Price-clipped jacket rubbed and chiped with small pieces missing around spine ends, which does not affect titles. Protected, and the looks enhanced, with a new mylar cover. Collection of articles on all things Soviet, which originally appeared in the British journal, Survey. 177 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Good+. SOVIET STUDIES SOVIETOLOGY SOCIOLOGY GEOGRAPHY CULTURE. more information
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Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy
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Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982. Light shelf wear, some edge wear to jacket. 318 pages, Notes, Index.. ISBN: 0801414512. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. SOVIET UNION FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED. more information
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Sviatoslav Richter : Notebooks and Conversations
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Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Very slight cocking to the spine. Life of the famed Russian pianist, recounted through his music journals and a private interview. English translation by Stewart Spencer. Nice copy in mylar.. ISBN: 0691074380. First English Translation. Near Fine/Fine. RUSSIAN USSR MUSICIANS PIANO PIANIST BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY COMPOSERS. more information
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Bagazh : Memoirs of a Russian Cosmopolitan
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New York: Atheneum, 1975. About Near Fine with some foxing to fore-edge. Jacket is rubbed with some foxing as well. No tears, not price clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. NABOKOV RUSSIA CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSER BALLET. more information
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Institute of Fools: A Dissident's Memoir of His Detention in the Most Notorious Soviet Psychiatric Institution
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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1980. Victor Nekipelov, a Soviet poet and human-rights activist, recounts his experience in the Serbsky Psychiatric Institute where he was placed after being arrested for anti-Soviet activities in 1973. 292 pages. Appendix includes trial transcripts and accounts of everyday apprisals (searches, arrests, interrogations).. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. SOVIET DISSIDENT MEMOIR SERBSKY PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE HOSPITAL HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST POET. more information
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Russian Icons
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London: The King Penguin Books, 1947. Both front and rear boards bow outward slightly. Pictorial cover with slight wrinkling or bubbling of the paper. Pages are a bit "wavy" as if dampened at some point, but there is no visible evidence of a damp stain. General shelf wear and spotting to top-edge of pages. Small thin book, 40 pages of text, followed by a brief bibliography on the subject and 16 pages of color plates representing Russian icon painting from the Eleventh Century to the early Seventeenth Century.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. RUSSIA RUSSIAN ICONS ORTHODOX FAITH EASTERN EUROPE. more information
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Russian Icons
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London: The King Penguin Books, 1947. Pictorial cover with slight wrinkling to the paper. General shelf wear and spotting to top-edge of pages. Previous owner's nameon front pastedown. Small thin book, 40 pages of text, followed by a brief bibliography on the subject and 16 pages of color plates representing Russian icon painting from the Eleventh Century to the early Seventeenth Century.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. RUSSIA RUSSIAN ICONS ORTHODOX FAITH EASTERN EUROPE. more information
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Early Centuries of Russian History
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Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1965. Edge-worn copy with wear also to the spine, particularly the tail of the spine where there is a small tear. 231 pages with Glossary, illustrations.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Good. Russian History Early Centuries. more information
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The Victors' Dilemma: Allied Intevention the Russian Civil War
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New Brighton, Minnesota: Weybright and Talley, 1970. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. Jacket a bit edge-worn along the bottom. 392 pages, with Notes, Source References, Bibliography,a nd Index. Illustrated with maps (E. Morton). Frontispiece map by Arthur Ransome, Stockholm, 1918: Russian Food Supplies. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Russian Russia Civil War Allied Intervention. more information
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Philip Mironov and the Russian Civil War
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Several small edge tears to jacket. Protected in a new Mylar archival cover. 267 pages with List of Abbreviations and Acronyms, Notes, Glossary, and Index.. ISBN: 0394406818. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. RUSSIA CIVIL WAR PHILIP MIRONOV SOVIET UNION HISTORY REVOLUTION 1917. more information
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The Coldest War: Russia's Game in China
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Spotting to top-edge of book. Minor wear at the spine ends on the jacket. Promotional photo of the author laid in.. ISBN: 015118979x. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. CHINA FOREIGN RELATIONS SOVIET UNION. more information
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Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921 Volume I: Intervention and the War
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961. Reading creases to spine, otherwise a nice, clean copy. 360 pages, with Selected Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with maps and photos.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Anglo Soviet Relations Russia Britain British Bolshevik Revolution. more information
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Legends of Russia
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New York: Crescent, 1980. The first several pages have some wrinkling across the top half. Just a trace of edge wear to book and jacket. No chips, tears, or marks. 203 pages, illustrated with photos, paintings, and drawings.. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. RUSSIA LEGENDS FANTASY. more information
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