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" - 50 / Leninskoye Pravde [= Leninist "Truth" - 50 Years]

by , [= SATYUKOV, Pavel Alekseevich], ed

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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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ABN: Backstage Expose

ABN: Backstage Expose

by STYRKUL, V [Valerii]

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Lviv, Ukraine: Kamenyar Publishers, 1983. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm). Illustrated staplebound wrappers, 70pp. Mild rubbing to covers, internally clean. Very Good. A pro-communist pamphlet exposing members of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations as nationalists and racists who have joined together to dissolve socialist and communist countries. Not much is known about the Soviet author, though he did publish two other pro-Soviet pamphlets (We Accuse: Documentary Sketch, 1984 and SS Werewolves, 1982), and this item is uncommon, with only five locations via OCLC, two in the US.
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Abstraction in Russia: XX Century, Volumes One & Two

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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Actors Cross the Volga: A Study of the 19th Century Russian Theatre and of Soviet Theatres in War

Actors Cross the Volga: A Study of the 19th Century Russian Theatre and of Soviet Theatres in War

by MacLEOD, Joseph

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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1946]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in red decorative dust jacket; [2],359pp.; photographic frontispiece, five leaves of plates. Jacket extremities lightly chipped and a shade darkened, white spine lettering additionally toned, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
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Africa in Soviet Studies: Annual [1968]

Africa in Soviet Studies: Annual [1968]

by U.S.S.R. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, AFRICA INSTITUTE

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Moscow: Nauka" Publishing House, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original black cloth-backed decorative boards, spine lettered in silver; 309pp. Some dust-soiling, boards a bit shelf-worn, more heavily so at corners, else Near Very Good and sound. First volume to be published of this annual.
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African Problems: Analysis of Eminent Soviet Scientist

African Problems: Analysis of Eminent Soviet Scientist

by POTEKHIN, I.I.

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Moscow: Nauka" Publishing House, 1968. First English Language Edition. Slim octavo (20cm.); original brown wrappers lettered in white and orange, French flaps; 141pp. Minor shelf wear to extremities, else Very Good and sound.
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Africa's Struggle for Freedom, the USA, and the USSR: A selection of political analyses

Africa's Struggle for Freedom, the USA, and the USSR: A selection of political analyses

by WINSTON, Henry, ed. & intro

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New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); original red staplebound pictorial wrappers; 96pp.; illus. Fine. Edited by the African-American National Chairman of the CPUSA. Contents includes Gus Hall's paper "U.S. Imperialism in Africa" and W.E.B. DuBois' letter of application to join the CPUSA with Hall's reply.
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Aleksandr Rodchenko--The New Moscow: Photographs from the L. and G. Tatunz Collection

Aleksandr Rodchenko--The New Moscow: Photographs from the L. and G. Tatunz Collection

by TUPITSYN, Margarita

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Munich: Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (32cm x 24.5cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in red on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 21, [3], plus 81pp of photographic plates; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Fine dustwrapper; appears new. Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition "Aleksandr Rodchenko--The New Moscow" organized by the Sprengel Museum Hannover in cooperation with Margarita Tupitsyn 1999-2000. 81 b&w plates of a series of photographs by Aleksandr Rodchenko.
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Allied Intervention in Russia 1917-1920

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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American Premiere Wednesday Eve., August 23rd, at 8:30 (Cont.) / Amkino Presents / The Conquests...

American Premiere Wednesday Eve., August 23rd, at 8:30 (Cont.) / Amkino Presents / The Conquests of Peter the Great

by [FILM - SOVIET UNION] AMKINO

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New York: Amkino, [1939]. First Edition. Octavo; photo-illustrated bifolium printed offset in blue on white stock. Previous folds, light wrinkling from handling, else Very Good or better. Handbill promoting the American premiere of the 1938 Soviet film "The Conquests of Peter the Great," shown at the air conditioned Cameo on Broadway. The film, produced by Lenfilms, was based on a story by the novelist Alexei Tolstoy, directed by the hugely prolific Vladimir Petrov, and starring in the title role Nikolai Simonov. "Peter has returned to the screen! In new and greater exploits than before!...Lenfilm's new historical film about the lusty, swashbuckling Czar, tells the dramatic and spectacular story of the monarch who led Russia out of feudalism" (p. [2]). Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of March, 2020.
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An American Looks at Russia: Can We Live in Peace? [cover title]

An American Looks at Russia: Can We Live in Peace? [cover title]

by LIGHTFOOT, Claude

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[New York: New Century Publishers, 1951]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp. Fine condition. Address by the African-American state secretary of the Communist Party in Illinois, delivered on the 33rd anniversary of the Russian Revolution and calling for peaceful coexistance at the height of McCarthyism. SEIDMAN L236.
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American Artists from the Russian Empire

American Artists from the Russian Empire

by The State Russian Museum; PETROVA, Yevgenia, ed.; Alison Hilton, Percy North, Harlow Robinson, Sharon Marie Carnicke, Beth Holmgren, Yevgenia Petrova, catalogue contributors

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St. Petersburg: Palace Editions / Graficart, 2008. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 25.5cm). Glossy pictorial paper boards (hardcover); pictorial dustjacket; 288pp; illus. Near Fine copy; extremely slight shelf wear to corner tips, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; one-inch tear to bottom back panel flap corner; slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and crisp. Continuing the State Russian Museum's series "Art of the Russian Emigration", this volume focuses on the works of Russian émigré artists to the US and brings forth the impact of the émigré experience on artists and their impact on the culture of their adopted country. In addition to scholarly essays by a host of art historians and curators, this catalogue includes 118 color plates as well as biographies of all of the artists included in the exhibition.
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An American Churchman in the Soviet Union

An American Churchman in the Soviet Union

by NEWTON, Louie D.; G. Bromley Oxnam, intro

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New York: American Russian Institute, [1947?]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); yellow staplebound card wrappers; 48pp. Light toning to textblock, else Near Fine.
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America's Answer to the Russian Challenge. In Which Electric Power, as a common denominator, is...

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

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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Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air]

Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air]

by [ARMENIA] VSKO IL, Kamil (photographs); Ludmila Motalová and Milan Piovar i, text

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Yerevan: Pallas, 1976. First Edition. Quarto. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 131,(2)pp; chiefly illus. Prospectus laid in. Fine copy in slightly edgeworn jacket, still Very Good or better. Photographic survey of the smallest Soviet republic. Text entirely in Armenian, though the Prospectus includes an introduction in four languages including English.
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At Odds With the Times: NATO's 30-Year Record

At Odds With the Times: NATO's 30-Year Record

by KUZNETSOV, Vladlen

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Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1979. First English Language Edition. Small, slim 12mo (17cm.); publisher's red pictorial wrappers; 73pp. Light shelf wear, old pencil price to upper cover, else Very Good, internally fine.
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Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five-Year Plan

Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five-Year Plan

by [SOVIET UNION] GREGORY, Paul R.

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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; viii,[3],4-188,[2]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. An examination of Russian and Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the administrative command system.
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Behind the Moscow Trial

Behind the Moscow Trial

by SHACHTMAN, Max

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New York: Pioneer Publishers, [1936]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Slim octavo (20.25cm.); original tan pictorial wrappers printed in maroon; [2],142pp. Long shallow loss at top of upper cover only just affecting image, tiny chip to spine crown, rear cover a bit soiled, else Near Very Good. Exposé of the first Moscow show trial, during which Leon Trotsky, who was living in exile, and 14 others were accused of conspiring to assassinate Joseph Stalin. All were sentenced to death, Trotsky in absentia.
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The Big Brainwash

The Big Brainwash

by [COLD WAR] [SOVIET UNION] CARTER, Dyson

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Toronto: Northern Book House, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Original brown wrappers, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine; 176pp; illus. Mild external dusting & soil; Very Good or better. A remarkable Cold War document, written by the career Soviet apologist (editor of the pro-Soviet journal "Northern Notes") Dyson Carter. Carter contrasts - at considerable length - the realities of the post-Sputnik USSR against the mythically primitive culture caricatured in the mainstream American media - a caricature which he claims Americans have been intentionally "brainwashed" into believing, in the interests of maintaining popular antagonism between the two countries. The source of this disinformation, according to Carter, is none other than John Foster Dulles, whose motives apparently stemmed from his thwarted ambition to assume financial control of Russia in the months following the October Revolution. Implies also that Dulles was a silent financier behind the Third Reich. A rare example of North… Read More
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