DASHINSKY, S. & N. FOKIN (EDITOR)

*Japan in Manchuria

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1932. First Edition. Pamphlet. Card covers show some shelf wear, staples are rusted, price has been altered in ink on front cover. A few pages show some creasing. ; A tight solid book. ; Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 47 pages; "A full statement of Japan's aims and methods and the menace to the Soviet Union (with maps)." With Japan's incursions into China and Manchuria pre WWII, Russia became concerned what their intentions might be toward the Soviet Union.. Very Good .

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Book number: 18968

Catalogue: History::Russia::Japan

Keywords: RUSSIA Japan Manchuria Political Science ASIA

GELARDI, JULIA P.

From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 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). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21419

Catalogue: History::Russia

Keywords: 0312371152 romanovs Marie Alexandrovna Olga Constantinovna Marie Feodorovna Marie Pavlovna RUSSIA RUSSIA

MASSIE, SUZANNE

Land of the Firebird: Beauty of Old Russia

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980. First British Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 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.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21225

Catalogue: History::Russia

Keywords: 024110517X RUSSIA Catherine the Great Peter the Great Ivan the terrible RUSSIA HISTORY

MASSIE, ROBERT K.

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

New York: Random House, 1995. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 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.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21247

Catalogue: History::Russia

Keywords: 0394580486 RUSSIA Tsar nicholas II alexandra anastasia Rasputin romanovs RUSSIA HISTORY

PARKER, TONY

Russian Voices

London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First British Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0224030205. Only slight wear; 9.4 X 6.2 X 1.5 inches; 481 pages; "Parker spent five months in Moscow in 1990, conducting these 77 interviews with a broad cross-section of Muscovites, whom he asked about their lives and about topics ranging from religion to war. First published last year in Great Britain, the book suffers somewhat from the passage of time. Parker draws out his subjects skillfully, occasionally eliciting eloquence ("Now I feel as though I am one thousand years of age," says a Chernobyl victim), and the interviews cumulatively portray aspects of society such as sexism, the pinching of family life in small living quarters and the intense warmth of the Russian spirit.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 19878

Catalogue: Russia::Oral History

Keywords: 0224030205 RUSSIA oral history moscow

SATTER, DAVID

Age of Delirium the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 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.". Very Good .

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Book number: 21045

Catalogue: History::Russia::Communism

Keywords: 0300087055 RUSSIA Communism Soviet Union USSR RUSSIA HISTORY

SERVICE, ROBERT

A History of Twentieth

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 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 war, and the postwar arms race. Communist ideas and practices never fully pervaded the society of the USSR. Yet an impact was made and, as this book expertly documents, Russia since 1991 has encountered difficulties in completely eradicating the legacy of Communism.A History of Twentieth-Century Russia is the first work to use the mass of material that has become available in the documentary collections, memoirs, and archives over the past decade. It is an extraordinarily lucid, masterful account of the most complex and turbulent period in Russia's long history.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 16780

Catalogue: History::Russia

Keywords: 0674403479 Revolution stalin Lenin trotsky Russian RUSSIA HISTORY

SIEMENS, RUTH DERKSEN

Remember Us - Letters from Stalin's Gulag (1930

Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2007. Fifth Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 1894710827. Card covers show light shelf wear. Front cover creased along spine. ; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 407 pages; "Remember us as we remember you - a plea from a father for his family imprisoned in Stalin's Gulag. Sending his letter abroad is a crime. Yet this letter (and 463 others) travels to a tiny prairie town in Canada. From 1930-37, letters from a nine-year old girl, from her siblings and parents found a corridor out of Russia to the forbidden West. Written by Russian Mennonites, the letters were stored in a Campbell's Soup box. Moving from attic to attic for almost 60 years, they were finally discovered in 1989. The letters in this volume have been written by one family: Jasch and Maria Regehr and their children. Subsequent volumes will include letters written by other prisoners and exiled families.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 21642

Catalogue: History::Russia

Keywords: 1894710827 gulag regehr stalin

VARIOUS

Consumer's Co

Moscow: USSR, 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.. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 16577

Catalogue: History::Russia::Communism

Keywords: RUSSIA moscow CO-OPERATIVEs USSR RUSSIA HISTORY