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On Revolution
by Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape, both its history and future. Published in the years between Arendt’s seminal texts The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution is a unique and fascinating look at violent political change and its relationship to individual freedom, from the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the...
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Russian Thinkers
by Isaiah Berlin
Reprint of the 1994 ed. with 2002 postscript by Henry Hardy dated Jan. 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What the "Friends Of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social Democrats
by Vladimir Illych Lenin
Russian Revolution Books & Ephemera
Let Us Understand Russia: A Short Outline of Russian History
by SVIR, Olga
New York: All-Slavic Publishing House, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in blue dust jacket; 199,xxxiipp.; illus. printed on last 16 leaves. Some light wear to jacket extremities (jacket measures approx. 3cm shorter than binding); some soil to endpapers, cloth a bit spotted, else Near Very Good. History of Russia by "a Principal of an Imperial College for Girls" - upper jacket panel.
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$75.00
Bolshevism, the Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
by SPARGO, John
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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$25.00
Lenin und die Wissenschaft. Beitrage zum 100. Geburtstag von W.I. Lenin (2 vols). I: Lenin und die Gesellschaftswissenschaften. II: Lenin und die Naturwissenschaften
by [LENIN]
Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1970. First Edition. Two large octavo volumes (25cm). Linen boards (hardcovers); 417+373pp. Slight sunning to spines and board edges, else Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappers. Festschrift on Lenin's 100th birthday. Contributions by multiple authors; text entirely in German.
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$30.00
Japan and The Indian National Army
by Dr. Tilak Raj Sareen
This book is a very rare copy of the history of India in its long struggle for freedom written by Dr. T. R. Sareen who was the Director, Indian Council of Historical Research, was formerly Assistant Director in the National Archives of India. More information on this author is shown on the photo of the inside of the back page of the jacket. Quotes from the inside jacket: "This struggle was unique in the sense that it was carried on two fronts e.e. one inside the country which believed in achieving it by...
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$32.00
Nationalism and History: Essays on Old and New Judaism
by DUBNOW, Simon; Koppel S. Pinson (ed & transl)
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hadcover; dustjacket; xii,385pp. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else about Fine in the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed, still Near Fine. Edited, partially translated, and with a substantial introductory biographical essay by Koppel S. Pinson.
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$40.00
Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917
by FIGES, Orlando and Boris Kolonitskii
New Haven: Yale University Press, [1999]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original simulated cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],198pp.; 8 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Minor wear from handling, dampstain to bottom edge of jacket verso (not visible to exterior) else Near Fine.
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$25.00
The Iron Flood
by [SOVIET FICTION] SERAFIMOVICH, A [Alexandr]
New York: International Publishers, 1935. First American Edition. 12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246p. Clean, tight copy in lightly dusted jacket; Very Good or better. Serafimovich's best-known work, a novel of the Russian Revolution based on the real-life exploits of E.I. Kovtiukh and the Taman Army. Considered a classic of early Soviet literature, Iron Flood was reissued in a variety of formats in English throughout the 40s and 50s; the first edition is somewhat scarce.
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$75.00
Diez Días que Conmovieron Al Mundo!
by REED, John
Buenos Aires: Cronos, (1945). First Argentinian edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; pictorial dustjacket; 199, (v)pp. Text browned but not brittle; a few brief marginal comments in red ink; dustwrapper clean and quite attractive. Translation by Angel Pumarega. We find no evidence of an earlier Buenos Aires edition; OCLC notes only a single location (BN Mexico).
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$75.00
![[DISAPPEARED MONUMENTS OF EARLY YEARS OF BOLSHEVIK STATE] Pamiatka chitatelia / Bibliotechnyi otdel Politichesko-prosvetitel'nogo upravleniia Petrogradskim voennym okrugom [i.e. Memo for a Reader / Library Department of Political Educational Administration of Petrograd Military District]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/513/496/1489496513.0.b.jpg)
[DISAPPEARED MONUMENTS OF EARLY YEARS OF BOLSHEVIK STATE] Pamiatka chitatelia / Bibliotechnyi otdel Politichesko-prosvetitel'nogo upravleniia Petrogradskim voennym okrugom [i.e. Memo for a Reader / Library Department of Political Educational Administration of Petrograd Military District]
Petrograd, 1919. [26] pp., 11 ills. 14,5x10,5 cm. In original decorated wrappers. Soviet bookshop stamp and marks on the back cover, covers slightly soiled, middle double-leaf detached from the block, otherwise very good and clean. The book is related to the phenomenon of Monumental Propaganda, the Bolshevik campaign carried out in the very first years after the October Revolution. In 1918, the Bolsheviks began to replace old Petrograd monuments with new ones. A special commission was formed and...
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$1,200.00
The October Revolution
by MEDVEDEV, Roy A
New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. hardcover. fine/very good(-). Translated by George Saunders. Foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury. Illus. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. discolored from sun exposure. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.<br/><br/>
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$15.00
![[FIRST SOVIET EDITION OF TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD] 10 dnei, kotorye potriasli mir [i.e. Ten Days that Shook the World] / prefaces by V. Lenin and N. Krupskaya, translated by V. Yarotskiy](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/855/330/1328330855.0.b.jpg)
[FIRST SOVIET EDITION OF TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD] 10 dnei, kotorye potriasli mir [i.e. Ten Days that Shook the World] / prefaces by V. Lenin and N. Krupskaya, translated by V. Yarotskiy
by Reed, John
Moscow: Krasnaia Nov', 1923. 315, [1], 4 pp. 23,5x15,5 cm. Original illustrated wrappers by Sergei Chekhonin. A few small bits of the spine missing, the front wrapper is restored (the right bottom corner is missing, not affecting the image). Overall a very good copy. First edition. Extremely rare, especially comparing to the editions of 1924 and 1925. The iconic book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed (1887-1920) about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced...
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$850.00
History's Turning Points
by Guest, Revel and St George, Andrew
London: Boxtree/SBS. 1995. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Foreword by Asa Briggs. 222 pages. Thirteen key moments in world history over the last 2000 years. Starts with the Greek/Persian war and ends with Hiroshima. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition (Australia). Hardback.
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$16.55
Russia Analyzed
by EYRE, Lincoln
New York: Press Publishing Co. / New York World, 1920. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound printed gray wrappers; 66pp. Mild creases to corners, still a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Reprints a series of Eyre's articles on the Russian revolution originally published in the New York World. Eyre (1888-1928) was an acclaimed foreign correspondent whose first-hand accounts of the aftermath of the October Revolution, written over a three-month period in 1920, provide invaluable insights to the...
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$40.00
Book Publishing Under Tzarism (The "Zerno" Publishing House)
by [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] [BOOK PUBLISHING] KEDROV, M.S
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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$40.00
Über den Leninismus
by BUBNOW, A[ndrei] [alt. spelling Bubnov]
Moskau: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1932. First German Language Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); publisher's white staplebound wrappers printed in red and blue; 32pp. Wrappers rather dust-soiled and a bit rubbed at extremities, textblock toned and a bit brittle due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good overall. Text entirely in German. The author, an old guard Bolshevik, served as People's Commissar of Enlightenment, stating during the Great Purge that enemies of the Soviet...
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$40.00
The Labor Laws of Soviet Russia. With An Answer to a Criticism by Mr. William C. Redfield. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged
by [RUSSIAN SOVIET GOVERNMENT BUREAU] S. Kaplan, et al
New York: Russian Soviet Government Bureau, 1920. Third (revised) edition. 12mo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 93pp. Mild edgewear to wrappers, with inked ownership signature ("Fr Carnes") dated 1920 at upper right corner; internally clean, tight and unmarked, Very Good. Review of early Soviet labor policy; this third edition is expanded to include a supplement, "The Protection of Labor in Soviet Russia," by S[ergei] Kaplun. Issued as "Soviet Russia Pamphlets no. 1.
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$40.00
Abstraction in Russia: XX Century, Volumes One & Two
by STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM; Yevgenia Petrova, ed.; Kenneth MacInnes; trans
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...
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$150.00
The Arena. Translated by Maurice Samuel
by LEVIN, Shmarya [aka Shmaryahu Levin]
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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$75.00
![1861 [Revolution in Russia from 1861 to the Latest Events]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/280/519/884519280.0.b.jpg)
1861 [Revolution in Russia from 1861 to the Latest Events]
by [COMMUNISTS] " . - " [pseudonym?]
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....
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$500.00
A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists 1420-1970
by MILNER, John
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club, 1993. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 482pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper. Essential reference; includes visual examples for many, and capsule biographies for more than 2,200 Russian & Soviet artists.
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$60.00
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
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...
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$95.00
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
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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$95.00
![Svobodnaia Piesn': Sbornik Revoliutsionnykh Piesn; i Stikhotvorenii [=] Russian Songs of Freedom](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/472/908/801908472.0.b.jpg)
Svobodnaia Piesn': Sbornik Revoliutsionnykh Piesn; i Stikhotvorenii [=] Russian Songs of Freedom
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] GERSHUNI, Grigorii (et al)
New York: Max N. Maisel, 1911. First edition, 12mo (18.25cm.); contemporary black cloth, private paper spine label printed in manuscript; 159pp.; hinges weak, textblock shaken, page edges soiled, old crude tape repair to index page; Good. A compilation of Russian "songs of freedom" and revolutionary poems by various authors. Some of the works included here are early printings of Ruzrushennyi Mol' ("The Ruined Pier"), by Grigorii Gershuni, a Russian revolutionary and a founder of the Socialist...
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$450.00
![[Text in Russian] Sovetskaia Russkaia Zhivopis' Pervogo Oktiabr'skogo Desiatiletiia [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/847/149/1109149847.0.b.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Sovetskaia Russkaia Zhivopis' Pervogo Oktiabr'skogo Desiatiletiia [Inscribed & Signed]
by LEBEDIANSKII, M.S
Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (26.75cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 240pp.; illus. throughout, mostly in color. Jacket rather worn along extremities with large tear at top edge of upper panel with subsequent creasing. Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Catalog of paintings produced during the first decade of the Soviet Union, text entirely in Russian.
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$50.00
![" - 50 / Leninskoye Pravde [= Leninist "Truth" - 50 Years]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/300/192/1458192300.0.b.jpg)
" - 50 / Leninskoye Pravde [= Leninist "Truth" - 50 Years]
by , [= SATYUKOV, Pavel Alekseevich], ed
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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$100.00
