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New York: [Iskra], 1917. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers, 32pp. Text in Ukrainian. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers, including brief chips and marginal tears. Text paper browned but not brittle; about Very Good. No publisher given, but rear wrapper advertises publications by "Iskra," the Russian revolutionary exile newspaper. Early, extremely uncommon up-to-the-minute account, for Ukrainian-American readers, of events in Russia during the October Revolution of 1917. Unlocated in OCLC or KVK; not held by the State or National Libraries, Moscow; we find a single institutional copy only at the Ukrainian National Library, Kiev.
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1861 [Revolution in Russia from 1861 to the Latest Events]
by [COMMUNISTS] " . - " [pseudonym?]
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" - 50 / Leninskoye Pravde [= Leninist "Truth" - 50 Years]
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Moscow: Pravda, 1962. First Edition. Quarto (34cm). Blind-embossed rough red cloth; 376pp; illus. Moderate external rubbing and wear; lacking dustwrapper and slipcase, still Very Good. A history of the Soviet revolutionary newspaper "Pravda," 1912-1962, including hundreds of facsimiles and photographs. Text entirely in Russian.
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Abstraction in Russia: XX Century, Volumes One & Two
by STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM; Yevgenia Petrova, ed.; Kenneth MacInnes; trans
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St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2001. First Edition. Quarto (32.5cm x 26cm). Pictorial paper boards (hardcover); pictorial dustjacket; pictorial slipcase; 382pp [vol. 1], 432pp [vol. 2]; compact disk recording; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Fine dustwrapper; appears new. Near Fine slipcase; bumped bottom panel; chipping to top edge back cover, else clean and tight. Survey of abstraction and its influence found in 20th century Russian visual art. Hundreds of artists profiled with color reproductions of their works and scholarly essays. Includes the compact disk recording "Pieces of Music for White Dots: A Compilation of St. Petersburg Avant-garde Music of the Late Twentieth Century". Edited by Yevgenia Petrova and translated from the Russian by Kenneth MacInnes.
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Allied Intervention in Russia 1917-1920
by BRADLEY, John
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New York: Basic Books, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 251pp. Fine, unread copy in barely edge-rubbed jacket. A new-appearing copy.
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America's Answer to the Russian Challenge. In Which Electric Power, as a common denominator, is requisitioned to throw light on the Russian enigma and the challenge it presents to Western Civilization
by [ANTI-SOVIET PROPAGANDA] [ELECTRIFICATION] SIBLEY, Robert
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San Francisco: Farallon Press, 1931. First, Limited Edition. Number 91 of an unspecified limitation. Hand-numbered and signed by the author on copyright page. Large octavo (25cm); original gilt-blocked cloth; dustjacket; 171pp; illus. Brief ownership inscription to front endpaper, else a tight, fine copy. In the original dustjacket, toned on spine and margins with a few short closed tears to extremities, Very Good. The author, a hydroelectric engineer, presents the results of his first-hand survey of Soviet electrification projects in 1930. He concludes that Individualism has and will continue to trump Collectivism on the path to progress. Well-illustrated with halftones and three mounted color plates (reproducing Soviet poster designs); two maps.
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America's Possible Share in the Economic Future of Russia
by Sack, A.J.
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New York: Russian Information Bureau in the U.S., 1919. First Edition Thus. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed wrappers; 25pp. Mild soil to wrapper edges; internally clean; Very Good or better overall. The Russian Information Bureau, managed by C.A.K. Martens, was the official propaganda and diplomatic wing of the Bolsheviks in the years preceding their recognition by the American government. Martens was deported, and the Information Bureau disbanded, in 1921. A shorter version of this pamphlet, with a slightly different title, was issued in 1918.
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The Arena. Translated by Maurice Samuel
by LEVIN, Shmarya [aka Shmaryahu Levin]
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth boards; dustjacket; v, 305pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed jacket, a touch soiled and faded on spine, Very Good or better. Ownership signatures of Henry and Martha Montor to front endpapers, else free of markings or significant wear. Scarce memoir by the important Russian Zionist and political revolutionary.
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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and The Civil Wars
by BROVKIN, Vladimir N. (editor)
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; viii,333pp. Trace of rubbing to lower board edges, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with just a hint of sunning to spine. Volume in which Eastern and Western scholars "draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this period Russian society was at war within itself ad with the Bolsheviks" (from front flap).
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Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920
by VON GELDERN, James
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Berkeley: University of California Press, [1993]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,316pp.; illus. Fine condition.
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The Bolshevik Revolution: its Rise and Meaning
by LITVINOFF, Maxim; E.C. Fairchild, fwd
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London: British Socialist Party, 1918. Second edition (same year as the first). 12mo; printed buff wrappers; 54pp. Clean, sound and unmarked copy, Near Fine.
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Bolshevism, the Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
by SPARGO, John
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1919]. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original maroon cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; [10],389pp. Spine cloth and gilt lettering a bit faded and dulled, light edge wear with corners a bit bumped, else Very Good and sound.
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Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution
by GLEASON, Abbott, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites, eds
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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [1985]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],304pp. Jacket extremities very lightly rubbed with a couple miniscule closed tears, else Fine. Forms part of the series "Studies of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies" [sic] at the Wilson Center.
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The Bolsheviks on Trial
by TCHERNOMORDIK, S.
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New York: Workers Library, 1932. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 46pp. Fine. History of persecutions and injustices perpetrated against Bolshevik agitators before the Revolution. "Prepared under the supervision of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow.
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Book Publishing Under Tzarism (The "Zerno" Publishing House)
by [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] [BOOK PUBLISHING] KEDROV, M.S.
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New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1932. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated wrappers; 39pp. Mild dusting; Near Fine. Brief history of the Zerno Publishing House, the most prolific of the Bolshevik publishing enterprises in pre-Revolutionary Russia.
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Briefe an Karl und Luise Kautsky (1896-1918)
by LUXEMBURG, Rosa; Luise Kautsky (ed)
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Berlin: E. Laub, 1923. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Pattered wrappers (softcover, as issued); 235pp; portrait frontispiece; one folding facsimile. Slight wear; spine slightly skewed; Very Good. Text entirely in German.
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Communism and the Family
by KOLLONTAI, Alexandra
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Cleveland: Hera Press, 1982. Octavo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 20pp. Light wear to wrapper edges, small chip at upper corner, Very Good. Introduction by Faith Simon. New printing of an uncredited translation originally published in London in 1918.
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The Cooperative Movement in Russia During the War (Series Title: "Economic and Social History of the World War")
by [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] [WW1] KAYDEN, Eugene M; Antsiferov, Alexis N.
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New Haven: Yale University Press / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1929. First Edition. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 420pp. Fine, fresh, unmarked copy in lightly soiled jacket, Near Fine. Sixth volume in the publisher's series "Economic and Social History of the World War", which was planned to include "some two hundred volumes published in a dozen countries and a half-dozen different languages." Uncommon in dustwrapper.
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Current History. Vol. XXVII, no. 2 (Nov. 1927)
by [SNOW, Francis, ed]
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New York: New York Times Company, 1927. First Edition. Small quarto. Original printed paper wrappers;pp (i-xxxi), 154-302, (xxxii-xlii); illus. Single issue in original wrappers. Worn, with front wrapper nearly detached, snags and small chips to extremities; a Good, complete copy with contents clean and firm. Issue commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, with most of the contents devoted to that topic; contributors include V.F. Calverton, Walter Duranty, A.J. Sack, Marc Slonim, etc.
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Cynics: A Novel
by MARIENHOFF, Anatol; Valdemar D. Bell and Louis Coleman, trans
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New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First Edition. Small octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket, blue top- and fore-edge stain; 237pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny shallow losses at corners; light spotting to jacket spine; Fine in About Very Good jacket. Banned from the Soviet Union until 1988, Cynics was Imaginist poet Marienhoff's second novel, an account of two Russian intellectuals during the Russian Revolution and the subsequent War communism. Scarce in such a nicely preserved dust jacket.
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Darkness At Noon: A Play [...] Based on the novel by Arthur Koestler
by KINGSLEY, Sidney [play]; Arthur Koestler [novel]
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New York: Random House, [1951]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in black and gilt dust jacket, red topstain; [12],117pp.; photographic double-page title page, 3 leaves of photographic plates. General edge wear to jacket extremities, including two short closed tears to top edge of upper panel, one touching a letter without loss of meaning, very faint ring stain to upper panel, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.
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