Search Results: Russia from Ainsworth Books

Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. Very Good+. 1985. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0306812983 . Card covers show light shelf wear and shelf soil. ; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 635 pages; "The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died, starving or freezing to death, most in the six months from October 1941 to April 1942 when the temperature often stayed at 30 degrees below zero." .

Moscow: Progress Publishers. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. Revised Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Some bumping of extremities, light chipping, creasing of DJ ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 275 pages; This is a series of essays in English about Lenin by many of the major Russian writers. .

New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good. 2001. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0300087055 . Card covers show light shelf wear, light crease runs down the middle of the front cover. ; A bright, solid book.; 6 X 1.11 X 9.1 inches; 424 pages; "The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and the tragic human cost of the Soviet attempt to remake reality by force." .

New York: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1978. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0385008449 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, remainder spray bottom page edges, price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Romanov genealogy chart on endpapers, Substantial notes, bibliography and index at back of book, adding up to almost 150 pages. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 746 pages; "The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchists—even Lenin himself—not foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could nothing be done? And why were the efforts so ineffectual? Black Night, White Snow… Read More

Moscow: USSR. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1962. First English Edition. Hardcover. Wear to the extremities of the paper covered boards and cloth spine, some scuffing, discard stamp front and back end papers. ; A tight solid book. Liberally illustrated with 150 B&W and colorised photos, maps. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 155 pages; This book is an book of praise for the co-operative system in Russia in mid century put out by the government of the time. It describes the structure of the system, how it is "broken up into 17,500 consumers' societies which are associated into 2780 district unions, into 158 regional, territorial and republican unions into the USSR Central Union of Consumers' Societies (Centrosoyus), the latter is composed of unions of consumers' societies of the 15 Union Republics." Text is in Russian, English, French and Italian. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679438106 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner's name on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 350 pages; "Tracing the lives of his Russian forebears, Serge Schmemann, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, tells a remarkable story that spans the past two hundred years of Russian history. First, he draws on a family archive rich in pictorial as well as documentary treasure to bring us into the prerevolutionary life of the village of Sergiyevskoye (now called Koltsovo), where the spacious estate of his mother's family was the seat of a manor house as vast and imposing as a grand hotel. In this village, on this estate--ringed with orchards, traversed by endless paths through linden groves, overseen by a towering brick church, and bordered by a… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1976. Later Printing. Hardcover. 038511396X . DJ and boards show some shelf wear. Top corners bumped, sticker removed from front cover with a little damage. light soil back cover ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.20 X 5.60 X 0.80 inches; 165 pages; "One of the great accidents of nature occurred in Siberia in 1908 when a fireball appeared over the horizon and slammed into a remote forest area of Siberia, creating shock waves which were felt half a world away. THE FIRE CAME BY goes into great depth and explores not only what Russian scientists have to say about the affair today, but also enlightened opinions from scientists worldwide, as well as on-the-scene reports and interviews. The book makes the fantastic comprehensible and gives the event a threatening immediacy." .

Winnipeg, MB: A. Giesinger. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows light shelfwear with a couple of short tears - boards show light shelf wear, date printed in ink on FFEP, previous owner's name inked out on FFEP. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Extensive bibliography, notes and index at back. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 443 pages; This is a very thorough history of how groups of German Mennonites decided to relocate to a number of colonies in Russia, how they were treated there and how many of them decided in later years to find new homes around the world. Many of them from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s, settled in the the US and Canadian Prairies as well as the West Coast and to South America. The German Mennonites who decided to stay in Russia were not treated well. They were relocated from the choice farming areas of the south to Siberia. .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312371152 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Illustrated with B&W photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 482 pages; "The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur under the tsars to the chaos of revolution and the beginnings of the Soviet Union. At the center of all this tumult were four women of the Romanov dynasty. Marie Alexandrovna and Olga Constantinovna were born into the family, Russian Grand Duchesses at birth. Marie Feodorovna and Marie Pavlovna married into the dynasty, the former born a Princess of Denmark, the latter a Duchess of the German duchy of Mecklendburg-Schwerin." (jacket blurb) .

London: David Bruce & Watson Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0851270301 . DJ and boards show shelf wear with creasing and tears. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 271 pages .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0674403479 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.49 X 6.43 X 2.23 inches; 654 pages; "Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world.How are we to make sense of this history? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula. Under a succession of leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, various methods were used to conserve and strengthen this compound. At times the emphasis was upon shaking up the ingredients, at others upon stabilization. All this occurred against a background of dictatorship, civil war, forcible industrialization, terror, world… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. First British Edition. Hardcover. 024110517X . DJ and boards show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Illustrated with many color plates.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 480 pages; "in-depth look of Russian history from 987-1917, spanning the ascension of Vlad and the Orthodox Church to right before the Revolution. With colorful prose Suzanne Massie details the variety of Russian existence--tsars and serfs and merchant-princes and babushkas--no stone is left uncovered as she cross-references nearly a thousands years, writing with equal consideration of art, poetry, country-life, court-life, politics and its myriad games, myths and legends, influence "outside the sphere." .

Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Vinyl Bound. Some soiling and shelfwear of blue vinyl covers.; A tight solid book. B&W and colour photographs throughout. Foldout map at back. Text in English. ; B&W and Colour Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 297 pages .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393070794 . Only slight wear to dust jacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1 inches; 304 pages; "In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia’s tsar. Known as “Second First March” for the date of their action, this group failed disastrously in their mission, and its leaders, Alexander included, were executed. History has largely forgotten Alexander, but for the most important consequence of his execution: his younger brother, Vladimir, went on to lead the October Revolution of 1917 and head the new Soviet government under his revolutionary pseudonym “Lenin. ”Probing the Ulyanov family archives, historian Philip Pomper uncovers Alexander’s transformation from ascetic… Read More

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0804720932 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, short 1/4" tear in DJ at base of spine. Previous owner's name in ink on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Will ship in a box. ; 8.8 X 6.2 X 1.6 inches; 691 pages; "This book examines the political, ideological, and cultural policies pursued by the German Communist of Socialist Unity party, acting upon the instructions of Stalin and his military administration, in Soviet-occupied Germany from 1945 through 1949. During these years, the Communists, in close collaboration with leading officers or diplomats of the Soviet occupation regime, developed a constricting system of organization that guaranteed their control over political as well as cultural processes and allowed both to be used in furthering the specific interests of Soviet foreign policy. The party's public rhetoric - its… Read More

New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1995. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0394580486 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, previous owner's name on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W plates; The Romanovs #4; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 308 pages; "In 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinberg, Siberia. Were these the remains of the last tsar and his family, murdered over 70 years before? Pulitzer Prize winner Massie now answers this question, going back to the horrifying moments of the slaughter, and describing in detail the ultimately successful efforts in post-communist Russia to discover the truth. of photos." .

New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0471855103 . Illustrated boards show light shelf wear.; A tight solid book. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 682 pages .

Halifax, NS: Globe Publishing Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1904. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated boards show some shelf wear, light soiling, some wear to gilt on front board and spine. ; A tight solid book, marbled page edges, B&W illustrations and maps throughout. Mustard colored cloth covered boards with red, white and black decorations front and spine. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 621 pages .

Moscow: Progress Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1984. Translation. Hardcover. Dust jacket chipped with short tears, previous owner's name inked out on front free end paper ; A bright, solid book Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 526 pages; "a military-historical sketch that describes decisive battles and engagements of the Soviet Army in WWII (1941-45), based on documents, historical research and recollections of war participants, tracing the course of warfare on the Soviet-German front and during the campaign in the Far East." (jacket blurb) Major General Larionov was assisted by Major General (Air Force) Timokhovich, Colonel Yeronin and Colonel Solovyov. .