Below are 144books about Russia that are on our shelves at Ray Boas, Bookseller in Walpole, New Hampshire on December 31, 2007. It is easy to order, and ordering information is on our order page. Thank you, yours, RAY
1. HANDBOOK OF THE SOVIET UNION, American-Russian Cham of Com, New York, (1936), great ads, color maps, 562pp, ads, good+, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 45599 ), $10.00
2. RUSSIAN PRINTED SHAWLS, Zagorsk Museum, Moscow, 1986, B&W and color illustrations, 182pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover) in very good slipcase, Catalogue of the exhibition, wonderful photographs. Text mainly in Russian with English summaries., (Order No: 49920 ), $14.50
3. MB3 - MIL - MOSCOW HELICOPTER PLANT 50 YEARS, Lyubimaya Kniga, Moscow, 1998, B&W and color illustrations, 272pp, very good++, pictorial boards (hardcover), The story of Mikhail Leontyevich Mil, the founder and designer general of the Moscow Helicopter plant. Extensive coverage of the various helicopters produced. Introductory history in English and Russian. Details on the helicopters is in Russian only., (Order No: 50175 ), $85.00
4. Acton, Edward; Cherniaev, Vladimir Iu.; and, Rosenberg, William G., CRITICAL COMPANION TO THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1914-1921, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1997) 1st ptg, 782pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253333334 The Russian Revolution of 1917 marked a turning point in modern history, conditioning the development of the twentieth century. This companion constitutes a landmark in the study of the Russian Revolution and civil war, bringing together specially commissined contributions by 46 of the world's leading historians of the period., (Order No: 53046 ), $40.00
5. Alexeyeva, Ludmilla (translated by Carol Pearce and John Glad), SOVIET DISSENT - CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS FOR NATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, (1985), B&W illustrations, 521pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscription, ISBN 0819551244, (Order No: 50188 ), $10.00
6. Alexiyevich, S., WAR'S UNWOMANLY FACE, Progress Publishers, Moscow, (1988), 248pp, very good, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 5010004941 "This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941." Stories of Soviet women's war experiences, (Order No: 50189 ), $65.00
7. Bailes, Kendall E., TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY UNDER LENIN AND STALIN - ORIGINS OF THE SOVIET TECHNICAL INTELLIGENTSIA, 1917-1941, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1978), 472pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, ISBN 0691052603, (Order No: 50139 ), $30.00
8. Banac, Ivo (edited by), EASTERN EUROPE IN REVOLUTION, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1992) 2nd ptg, 255pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0801499976 In this book twelve outstanding authorites present their thorough-going assessments of the East European revolution of 1989 - the definite collapse of communism as an ideology, a political movement, and a system of power in eight countries., (Order No: 50361 ), $5.00
9. Barber, John and Harrison, Mark, THE SOVIET HOME FRONT, 1941-1945: A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE USSR IN WORLD WAR II, Longman, London, (1991), 252pp, very good, wraps (softcover) COUPLE MARGINAL PENCIL MARKS, ISBN 0582009650, (Order No: 50154 ), $35.00
10. Bascomb, Neal, RED MUTINY - ELEVEN FATEFUL DAYS ON THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, (2007), B&W illustrations, 386pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) - BCE, ISBN 9780618592067 In 1905, after being served rancid meat, more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutined against their officers aboard what was then one of the most powerful battleships in the world., (Order No: 53022 ), $10.00
11. Bashkina, Nina N.; Bolkhovitinov, Nikolai N.; Brown, John H.; Hartgrove; J. Dane; Kudriavtsev, Ivan I.; et al, THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA - THE BEGINNINGS OF RELATIONS 1765-1815, Soviet-American Editorial Bd, US Department of State, n.d. c1980, B&W illustrations, 1184pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This collection of documents, published simultaneously in English in Washington and in Russian in Moscow, is the first joint work of historicans and archiviests from the Soviet Union and the United States., (Order No: 52304 ), $27.50
12. Bialer, Seweryn (edited by), THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT OF SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, (1981), 441pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0891588914, (Order No: 50653 ), $6.50
13. Black, J. L. and Buse, D. K. (translation of German materials by Victoria Joan Moessner), G.-F. MULLER AND SIBERIA, 1733 - 1743, The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario, (1989), B&W illustrations, 157pp, fine, orange cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0919642233 Contents include: Document 1--Instructions given to G.-F. Muller; Document 2--Allowances for Participants in the Kamchatka Expedition; Documet 3- -A.F. Busching: Muller's Great, Long Siberian Journey; Document 4--G.- F. Travels in Siberia, 1733-1740; Document 5--Reports and Memoranda; Document 6--G.-F. Muller: Letter from a Russian Sea-Officer to a Person of Distinction at the Court of St. Petersburg., (Order No: 53063 ), $8.50
14. Blank, Stephen J.; and Tilford, Earl H. (editors), DOES RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY HAVE A FUTURE? - STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 1994, 162pp, fine, wraps (softcover), A collection of papers presented at a roundtable discussion that addressed the impact of the December, 1993 elections in Russia., (Order No: 50627 ), $25.00
15. Bonnell, Victoria E. (edited, with an introduction and annotations by), THE RUSSIAN WORKER: LIFE AND LABOR UNDER THE TSARIST REGIME, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, (1983) 1st ptg, 216pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 0520048377 Contemporary accounts of working-class life during the final decades of the Russian Empire., (Order No: 53017 ), $15.00
16. Boobbyer, Philip, THE STALIN ERA - ROUTLEDGE SOURCES IN HISTORY, Routledge, London, (2000), 250pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0415182980 Provides a wide-ranging history of Stalin's dictatorship in the Soviet Union., (Order No: 53037 ), $37.50
17. Boyanus, S. C. and Jopson, N. B., SPOKEN RUSSIAN: A PRACTICAL COURSE, Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., London, (1945) 2nd ed, 367pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Written and Spoken Colloquial Russian with Pronunciation, Intonation, Grammar, English Translation and Vocabulary., (Order No: 33915 ), $45.00
18. Breslauer, George W. (editor); Levine, Herbert; Tyson, Laura; Bonnell, Victoria; Ruble Blair A.; Lapidus, Gail W.; et al, CAN GORBACHEV'S REFORMS SUCCEED?, University of California, Berkeley, CA, (1990), 135pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0962262919, (Order No: 50628 ), $20.00
19. Brown, William Edward, A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD - VOLUME THREE, Ardis Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI, (1986), B&W illustrations, 457pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) some staining to cloth, Volume 3 only of a 4 volume set. This volume covers Pushkin, Poets of the Zhukovsky School, and the Pushkin Pleiad., (Order No: 50953 ), $25.00
20. Butler, Rupert, STALIN'S INSTRUMENTS OF TERROR: CHEKA, OGPU, NKVD, KGB FROM 1917 TO 1991, Amber Books, London, (2006), B&W illustrations, 192pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1904687970 Illustrated with 100 photographs, this volume is a lively and accessible history of secret police oppression in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the early 1990s., (Order No: 53083 ), $20.00
21. Carmichael, Joel, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Basic Books, Inc.,Publishers, New York, (1964), 6 B&W photos, 240pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), From the totally unplanned and spontaneous uprising of February 23, 1917, to the Bolshevik victory the following October, Mr. Carmichael re-creates the full sweep of the social and political upheaval during the intervening eight months., (Order No: 11343 ), $8.50
22. Carmichael, Joel, STALIN'S MASTERPIECE: THE SHOW TRIALS AND PURGES OF THE THIRTIES - THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE BOLSHEVIK DICTATORSHIP, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, (1976), 238pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 029777039X An engrossing and original analysis of both the man and his macabre political creation., (Order No: 52043 ), $12.00
23. Cassiday, Julie A., THE ENEMY ON TRIAL: EARLY SOVIET COURTS ON STAGE AND SCREEN, Northern Illinois Univ. Pr., DeKalb, IL, (2000), B&W illustrations, 260pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0875802664 In this provocative interdisciplinary study, Cassiday shows how the trials deliberately used avant-garde drama and cinema to educate the citizenry about the new social order., (Order No: 51580 ), $30.00
24. Chamberlin, William Henry (an interpretation by), THE RUSSIAN ENIGMA, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1944, 321pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), A lucid and interesting account of our ally., (Order No: 30975 ), $7.50
25. Chew, Allen F., AN ATLAS OF RUSSIAN HISTORY: ELEVEN CENTURIES OF CHANGING BORDERS - REVISED EDITION, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1977) 4th ptg, B&W maps, 127pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0300014457, (Order No: 50733 ), $8.00
26. Clements, Barbara Evans; Engel, Barbara Alpern; and Worobec, Christine D. (edited by), RUSSIA'S WOMEN - ACCOMODATION, RESISTANCE, TRANSFORMATION, University of California Pr., Berkeley, CA, (1991) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 300pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0520070240 "By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women - and women's reactions to these efforts - have shaped Russian political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history.", (Order No: 50358 ), $12.50
27. Clements, Barbara Evans, BOLSHEVIK FEMINIST - THE LIFE OF ALEKSANDRA KOLLONTAI, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1979) 1st ptg, 352pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253312094 The iconoclastic theories of the Russian revolutionist and socialist feminist Aleksandra Kollontai (1872-1952) will strike many readers as startlingly contemporary., (Order No: 53050 ), $35.00
28. Conquest, R., POWER AND POLICY IN THE U.S.S.R. - THE STUDY OF SOVIET DYNASTICS, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, 1961, 485pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 50300 ), $7.50
29. Crummey, Robert O. (edited by), REFORM IN RUSSIA AND THE U.S.S.R. - PAST AND PROSPECTS, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, (1989) 1st ptg, 318pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0252061764 This book offers examinations by political scientists and historians of past attemps at reform in Russia, relating those attempts to prospects for future reform., (Order No: 50256 ), $8.50
30. Dallin, David J., THE CHANGING WORLD OF SOVIET RUSSIA, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1956, 422pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 50223 ), $7.50
31. Davies, R. W. (edited by); Shaw, Denis J. B. (with the assistance of), THE SOVIET UNION, George Allen & Unwin, London, (1980) 3rd ptg, 191pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) small bump top corner, ISBN 004947023X, (Order No: 50513 ), $5.00
32. Davies, R. W.; Khlevniuk, Oleg V.; Rees, E. A.; Kosheleva, Liudmila P.; and, Rogovaya, Larisa A. (compiled and edited by), THE STALIN-KAGANOVICH CORRESPONDENCE 1931-36, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (2003) 1st ptg, 431pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300093675 These documents are of singular importance to an understanding of Soviet politics, foreign policy, and economic development in the 1930s., (Order No: 53049 ), $45.00
33. Davies, Sarah, POPULAR OPINION IN STALIN'S RUSSIA - TERROR, PROPAGANDA AND DISSENT, 1934-1941, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, (1997), 236pp, very good++, maroon cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, ISBN 0521562147 Contents in three parts: Economy and Society; Politics and Terror; and, The Leader Cult., (Order No: 53018 ), $35.00
34. Desai, Padma, PERESTROIKA IN PERSPECTIVE: THE DESIGN AND DILEMMAS OF SOVIET REFORM, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1989), B&W ill., figures, 138pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0691042438 Skillfully combining charts, photographs, cartoons, and quotes, this book offers a unique and coherent view of the strategy underlying Gorbachev's reform efforts to date., (Order No: 32290 ), $4.50
35. Dixon, William Hepworth, FREE RUSSIA, Harper & Brothers, Pub., New York, 1870, B&W illustrations, 359pp, ads, good, maroon cloth w/some light wear (hardcover), "In past times Russia was free, even as Germany and France were free. She fell before Asiatic hordes; and the Tartar system lasted, in spirit, if not in form, until the war; but since that conflict ended, the old Russia has been born again. This new country--hoping to be pacific, meaning to be Free--is what I have tried to paint." The US edition appears to be the two volumes published as one., (Order No: 31750 ), $40.00
36. Dmytryshyn, Basil (edited by), IMPERIAL RUSSIA: A SOURCE BOOK, 1700-1917 - THIRD EDITION, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1990), 558pp, very good++, wraps (softcover) COUPLE MARKS ON TABLE OF CONTENTS, ISBN 0030334195 Essentially an unread copy, except for a few "tic marks" on chapter numbers in the table of contents., (Order No: 50536 ), $10.00
37. Eklof, Ben, RUSSIAN PEASANT SCHOOLS - OFFICIALDOM, VILLAGE CULTURE, AND POPULAR PEDAGOGY, 1861-1914, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, (1990), 652pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0520069579 A massive and detailed study of the growth of literacy of the post-Russian peasantry from the emancipation of the serfs and the outbreak of World War I., (Order No: 50541 ), $7.00
38. Engel, Barbara Alpern and Rosenthal, Clifford N. (edited and translated from the Russian by), FIVE SISTERS: WOMEN AGAINST THE TSAR - THE MEMOIRS OF FIVE REVOLUTIONARIES OF THE 1870S, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, (1975), 249pp, index, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0297770659, (Order No: 50294 ), $8.50
39. Ferro, Marc (translated by Brian Pearce), NICHOLAS II: LAST OF THE TSARS, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993, B&W illustrations, 305pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195081927 This authoritative biography by one of the world's great historians shines a bright light on an ordinary man raised to an extraordinary station, who carried an unwanted burden, which crushed him., (Order No: 21275 ), $5.00
40. Feshbach, Murray, ECOLOGICAL DISASTER - CLEANING UP THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF THE SOVIET REGIME, Twentieth Century Fund Press, New York, 1995, 155pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0870783645 This essay is the first in a series called "Russia in Transition.", (Order No: 50233 ), $6.00
41. Finer, Herman, GOVERNMENTS OF GREATER EUROPEAN POWERS, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, (1956), B&W tables, maps, 931pp, appd., good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "A Comparative Study of the Governments and Political Culture of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union." The author has selected bits of history, social structure, economics and so forth in each country which have direct relevance to the political institutions., (Order No: 15418 ), $20.00
42. Florinsky, Michael T., RUSSIA: A SHORT HISTORY, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1964) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 653pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author focuses on two themes--first, the growth of Russia from a simple valley culture in the nineth century to a great empire at the onset of the twentieth century; second, the similar but faster evolution of Soviet Russia following the revolution., (Order No: 25919 ), $7.50
43. Freeze, Gregory L., FROM SUPPLICATION TO REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY SOCIAL HISTORY OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA, Oxford University Press, New York, 1988, 331pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195043723 Here, in one convenient volume, the leading archival historian of our generation has assembled a fascinating array of primary readings on the social history of Imperial Russia., (Order No: 53019 ), $15.00
44. Friedgut, Theodore E., POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE USSR, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1979), 353pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0691022151, (Order No: 50776 ), $5.00
45. Galler, Meyer and Marquess, Harlan E. (compiled by), SOVIET PRISON CAMP SPEECH: A SURVIVOR'S GLOSSARY, SUPPLEMENTED BY TERMS FROM THE WORKS OF A. I. SOLZENICYN, University of Wisconsin Pr., Madison, WI, (1972) 1st ptg, 216pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0299060802 The 1962 publication of Solzenicyn's ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVIC underscored the need for an aid to understanding the special jargon used in Soviet prison and labor camps. This jargon still flourishes today in Soviet prision camps, and promises to take an ever-increasing role in Russian literature of the future., (Order No: 17878 ), $14.50
46. Geyer, Dietrich (translated from the German by Bruce Little), THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - HISTORICAL PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES, BERG - St. Martin's Press, Lemington Spa - New York, (1987), 163pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0854965181 Presents a broad survey combined with a penetrating analysis of the key issues of the Russian Revolution., (Order No: 50750 ), $15.00
47. Gleason, Abbott, YOUNG RUSSIA: THE GENESIS OF RUSSIAN RADICALISM IN THE 1860S, The Viking Press, New York, (1980), 437pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670794597 The author offers an important new interpretation of the genesis of Russian radicalism, and at the same time relates the 1860s to our own epoch. Stressing the relatedness of radical and reactionary doctrines, he explores the reasons why people held the ideas they did, and the psychology of this most remarkable of political generations., (Order No: 13731 ), $5.00
48. Glickman, Rose L., RUSSIAN FACTORY WOMEN: WORKPLACE AND SOCIETY, 1880-1914, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, (1984) 1st ptg, 325pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 0520048105 This book is about women industrial workers in the formative period of Russian industrial capitalism., (Order No: 53016 ), $10.00
49. Gray, Pauline, THE GRAND DUKE'S WOMAN, Macdonald and Jane's, London, (1976), B&W illustrations, 201pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0356083136 The story of the morganatic marriage of Michael Romanoff, the Tsar Nicholas II's brother and Nathalia Cheremetevskaya., (Order No: 47677 ), $175.00
50. Gustafson, Thane (foreword by Daniel Yergin), CAPITALISM RUSSIAN-STYLE, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, (1999), 264pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0521641756 "For a decade Russia has been dismantling communism and building capitalism. Describing a deeply flawed fledgling market economy, CAPITALISM RUSSIAN-STYLE provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today.", (Order No: 50292 ), $10.00
51. Hamilton, George Heard, THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF RUSSIA - THE PELICAN HISTORY OF ART, Penguin Books, Middlesex, (1954), B&W ill., 320pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This history confines itself to Russia west of the Urals, the Russia whose artistic beginnings lay in the response of a newly settled people to the impact of Christianity and the Byzantine Empire., (Order No: 30879 ), $30.00
52. Harnwell, Gaylord P., RUSSIAN DIARY, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1960), B&W illustrations, 125pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the author, A distinguished educator's informal report on life and higher education in the Soviet Union., (Order No: 24414 ), $15.00
53. Headlam-Morley, James, STUDIES IN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Alfred H. King, Inc., New York, [1930], 312pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) in lightly worn slipcase, Essays written by the Historical Adviser to the British Foreign Office. Among the subjects included are the difficult questions of Arbitration, Treaties of Guarantee, and the "Problem of Security" dealing with the Low Countries and the Rhine Frontier. Other chapters give an historical summary of British policy in Egypt up to the present time, and also the history of Russia and the Straits., (Order No: 15249 ), $25.00
54. Hilton, Alison, RUSSIAN FOLK ART, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1995) 1st ptg, B&W and color ill., 357pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253327539 This volume describes the traditions, styles, and functions of a broad range of objects made by Russian peasant artists for local use and by specialized artisans for trade., (Order No: 32502 ), $25.00
55. Hoff, Rhoda, RUSSIA: ADVENTURES IN EYEWITNESS HISTORY, Henry Z. Walck, Inc., New York, 1964, 207pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Fifty-six selections which cover 2300 years of eyewitness history of Russia., (Order No: 25921 ), $7.50
56. Hoffmann, Erik P. (edited by), THE SOVIET UNION IN THE 1980S, Academy of Political Science, New York, 1984, 244pp, very good, wraps (softcover), Proceedings of The Academy of Political Science; Volume 35, Number 3., (Order No: 50652 ), $5.00
57. Holloway, Daivd, STALIN AND THE BOMB: THE SOVIET UNION AND ATOMIC ENERGY, 1939-1956, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1994, B&W illustrations, 464pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300060564 This volume traces the history of Soviet nuclear policy from the development of physics in the 1920s to the testing of the hydrogen bomb and the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the mid-1950s., (Order No: 51572 ), $12.50
58. Jacobson, Jon, WHEN THE SOVIET UNION ENTERED WORLD POLITICS, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, (1994) 1st ptg, 388pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0520089766, (Order No: 53021 ), $4.00
59. Jelavich, Barbara, RUSSIA AND THE RUMANIAN NATIONAL CAUSE, 1858-1859, Archon Books, Hamden, CT, 1974, 169pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0208014306 In the accomplishment of Rumanian national unification and the achievement of independence from Ottoman rule, two foreign powers, France and Russia, played the chief roles. This study seeks to describe and explain, on the basis of unpublished Russian documents, the Russian policies and motives in the most important year of the Rumanian national movement and to clarify a major episode in Russian and European foreign relations in the nineteenth century., (Order No: 14746 ), $8.00
60. Kahan, Arcadius (with the editorial assistance of Richard Hellie), THE PLOW THE HAMMER AND THE KNOUT - AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1985) 1st ptg, 399pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0226422534 The eighteenth century was crucial in Russian history, marking the nation's emergence from a preindustrial society and the onset of a modernization that would make Russia a great European, and eventually global, power., (Order No: 53013 ), $30.00
61. Kaiser, Daniel H. (edited by), THE WORKERS' REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA, 1917 - THE VIEW FROM BELOW, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, (1987), 152pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0521349710, (Order No: 53036 ), $5.00
62. King, David (preface by Stephen F. Cohen) (photographs from the David King collection), THE COMMISSAR VANISHES: THE FALSIFICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART IN STALIN'S RUSSIA, Metropolitan Books, New York, (1977) 1st ptg, B&W and color illustrations, 192pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) small corner bump, ISBN 0805052941 Offers a chilling look at how one man - Joseph Stalin - manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase the memory of his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were air-brushed from group photos, and crowd scenes were altered., (Order No: 53072 ), $60.00
63. Kingston-Mann, Esther; Mixter, Timothy; Burds, Jeffrey (edited by), PEASANT ECONOMY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA, 1800-1921, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1991) 1st ptg, 443pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0691008493 A collection of original essays providing a rare in-depth look at peasant life in 19th and early 20th century European Russia., (Order No: 50355 ), $12.50
64. Kish, George; Matley, Ian M; and, Bellaire, Betty, ECONOMIC ATLAS OF THE SOVIET UNION, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1960), maps, 96pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 50171 ), $10.00
65. Kochan, Lionel, RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1890-1918, The New American Library, New York, (1966), 352pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This study shows the unity of the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary periods., (Order No: 50184 ), $6.00
66. Koenker, Diane P. and Rosenberg, William G., STRIKES AND REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA, 1917, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1989), B&W illustrations, 393pp, fine, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, ISBN 0691055785, (Order No: 50195 ), $25.00
67. Kolakowski, Leszek (translated from the Polish by P. S. Falla), MAIN CURRENTS OF MARXISM: ITS ORIGINS, GROWTH AND DISSOLUTION - 3. THE BREAKDOWN, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, (1987), 548pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0192851098, (Order No: 50596 ), $8.50
68. Kolakowski, Leszek (translated from the Polish by P. S. Falla), MAIN CURRENTS OF MARXISM: ITS ORIGINS, GROWTH AND DISSOLUTION - 2. THE GOLDEN AGE, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, (1985), 542pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 019285108X, (Order No: 50651 ), $15.00
69. Kopx, A. C., PETER THE GREAT - NORTHERN WAR OF 1700-1721, Order of Lenin State History, Museum, Moscow, (1990), color illustrations, 132pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), Exhibition on Peter the Great. Text in Russian, illustration captions in both English and Russian., (Order No: 50288 ), $30.00
70. Kopx, A. C., MIKHAIL KUTUZOV, Order of Lenin State History, Museum, Moscow, (1989), color illustrations, 120pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), Catalogue of the exhibition on Mikhail Kutuzov the great Russian military leader who took part in the Russo-Turkish wars of 1768-1774 and 1787-1791. Text in Russian followed by English translation on page 106 along with translations of the illustration captions., (Order No: 50289 ), $35.00
71. Kotkin, Stephen, STEELTOWN, USSR - SOVIET SOCIETY IN THE GORBACHEV ERA, University of California Pr., Berkeley, CA, (1992) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 291pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0520073541, (Order No: 50490 ), $3.00
72. La Vopa, Anthony J. [ LaVopa, Anthony J. ], PRUSSIAN SCHOOLTEACHERS: PROFESSION AND OFFICE, 1763-1848, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, (1980), 220pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807814261 This book analyzes the social grievances and aspirations of Prussian elementary schoolteachers and their efforts, largely abortive, to achieve recognition as an educated profession in the public service., (Order No: 15360 ), $15.00
73. Lampert, Nicholas, WHISTLEBLOWING IN THE SOVIET UNION - A STUDY OF COMPLAINTS AND ABUSES UNDER STATE SOCIALISM, Schocken Books, New York, (1985) 1st Amer, 210pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0805239510, (Order No: 50220 ), $4.00
74. Lane, David, THE ROOTS OF RUSSIAN COMMUNISM - A SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL STUDY OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY 1898-1907, Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr., University Park, PA, (1968), 240pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0271011785, (Order No: 50760 ), $10.00
75. Leder, Mary M. (edited and with an introduction by Laurie Bernstein), MY LIFE IN STALINIST RUSSIA: AN AMERICAN WOMAN LOOKS BACK, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (2001) 1st ptg, 344pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253338662 In January 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica, California. By year's end she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of miles from her family, with whom she had emigrated to Birobidzhan, the area designated by the USSR as a Jewish socialist homeland., (Order No: 53048 ), $25.00
76. LeDonne, John P., ABSOLUTISM AND RULING CLASS: THE FORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN POLITICAL ORDER 1700-1825, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991 1st ptg, 376pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 019506805X The first comprehensive examination of the Russian ruling elite and its political institutions. Explores an important period of state building, from the emergence of Russia on the stage of world politics around 1700 to the consolidation of its position after the victory over Napoleon., (Order No: 53020 ), $30.00
77. Leites, Nathan and Bernaut, Elsa, RITUAL OF LIQUIDATION: THE CASE OF THE MOSCOW TRIALS, The Free Press, Glencoe, IL, (1954), 515pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Bolsheviks on Trial. The First Fully Documented Study of Why They Confessed., (Order No: 52044 ), $17.50
78. Lewin, Moshe, STALINISM AND THE SEEDS OF SOVIET REFORM - THE DEBATES OF THE 1960S, Pluto Press / M.E. Sharpe, London / Armonk, NY, (1991), 373pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0873328582 First published in 1974 as POLITICAL UNDERCURRENTS IN SOVIET ECONOMIC DEBATES, and now republished with a new introduction. This work offers an interpretation of the lively and revealing debate among Soviet scholars, the 'men of the sixties' over the Soviet economy and, by extrapolation, the Soviet system. UK ISBN 0745304273, (Order No: 50762 ), $7.50
79. Lubitz, Wolfgang; and Lubitz, Petra (compiled and edited by), TROTSKY BIBLIOGRAPHY: AN INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFIED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ABOUT LEON TROTSKY AND TROTSKYISM 1905-1998, K. G. Saur, Munich, Germany, 1999, 2 vols, 840pp, fine, orange cloth (hardcover), ISBN 3598113919 Third, completely revised and enlarged edition. Two Volume Set complete., (Order No: 52868 ), $200.00
80. Macdonald, John, CZAR FERDINAND AND HIS PEOPLE, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, c1913, B&W illustrations, 344pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 40068 ), $45.00
81. Malia, Martin, RUSSIA UNDER WESTERN EYES: FROM THE BRONZE HORSEMAN TO THE LENIN MAUSOLEUM, Belknap Pr. of Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, 1999, 514pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0674781201 A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives a sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, memeber in the continuum of European nations., (Order No: 26813 ), $12.50
82. Malkin, Maurice L. (edited by Charles W. Wiley), RETURN TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE, Arlington House, New Rochelle, NY, (1972), 256pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0870001442 A Charter Member of the American Communist Party Tells Why He Joined--And Why He Later Left to Fight Communism., (Order No: 31457 ), $7.00
83. Mandel, David, THE PETROGRAD WORKERS AND THE SOVIET SEIZURE OF POWER FROM THE JULY DASY 1917 TO JULY 1918, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1984), 447pp, index, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0312603959, (Order No: 53015 ), $150.00
84. Mandel, Ernest (translated by Gus Fagan), TROTSKY AS ALTERNATIVE, Verso, London, (1995), 186pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 185984085X Author "Presents a portrait of his subject which is appreciative yet critical.", (Order No: 53047 ), $10.00
85. Margulies, Sylvia R., THE PILGRIMAGE TO RUSSIA: THE SOVIET UNION AND THE TREATMENT OF FOREIGNERS, 1924-1937, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1968, 290pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The author explores the means by which the Soviets sought to select and control visitors to the USSR from the mid-1920's until 1937, when internal political imperatives and major problems of foreign diplomacy decreased Stalin's interest in showing off his state to the Western world., (Order No: 15306 ), $8.50
86. Marshall, Herbert (introduction by Harold Clurman), THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN THEATRE, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, (1977), B&W illustrations, 208pp, good+ w/very lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0517520206 In pictures and text, this unique book covers the history of the Russian theatre from its early beginnings in the Middle Ages, when there were traveling clowns and buffoons, to today's censure-defying dramas., (Order No: 43216 ), $17.50
87. Massie, Robert K., THE ROMANOVS: THE FINAL CHAPTER, Random House, New York, (1995) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 308pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394580486, (Order No: 6187 ), $6.00
88. McCauley, Martin (edited by), THE SOVIET UNION UNDER GORBACHEV - STUDIES IN RUSSIA AND EAST EUROPE, Macmillan Press, Ltd., London, (1988), 247pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0333439120 In this book specialists address the main problems facing Gorbachev and are cautiously optimistic about his chances of modernising the USSR., (Order No: 51383 ), $8.50
89. McLean, Hugh; Malia, Martin E.; and Fischer, George (edited by), RUSSIAN THOUGHT AND POLITICS - HARVARD SLAVIC STUDIES VOL. IV, Mouton & Co, Publishers, The Netherlands, 1957, B&W ill., 513pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Contents include: PART ONE--The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century; PART TWO--The Late Nineteenth Century; PART THREE--The Twentieth Century., (Order No: 53105 ), $27.50
90. Medvedev, Roy A., LET HISTORY JUDGE - THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF STALINISM, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972 2nd ptg, 566pp, index, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394446453, (Order No: 41144 ), $5.00
91. Meissner, Boris (translations by Fred Holling), edited and with a chapter by John S. Reshetar, Jr., THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION; WITH A CHAPTER ON THE TWENTIETH PARTY CONGRESS BY JOHN S. RESHETAR, JR., Praeger, New York, (1956), 276pp, good+, gray cloth, (hardcover) (no dustjackdet) EX-LIB, Party leadership, organization and ideology. EX-LIB with minimal marks., (Order No: 31572 ), $12.50
92. Moore, Barrington, SOVIET POLITICS - THE DILEMMA OF POWER: THE ROLE OF IDEAS IN SOCIAL CHANGE, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1951 2nd ptg, 503pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) couple small chips on dj, (Order No: 50302 ), $5.00
93. Newton, Wm. Wilberforce, A RUN THROUGH RUSSIA - THE STORY OF A VISIT TO COUNT TOLSTOI, The Student Publishing Co., Hartford, CT, 1894, B&W illustrations, 211pp, very good, black cloth spine (hardcover), (Order No: 51601 ), $30.00
94. O'Ballance, Edgar, THE RED ARMY: A SHORT HISTORY, Frederick A. Praeger, Pub., New York, (1964), B&W illustrations, 237pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Contents include: The Birth of the Red Army; The Civil War; The Polish War, 1920; The Period of Consolidation, 1920-8; Expansion and Mechanization, 1928-36; Crisis and Change, 1936-9; The Finnish Campaign, 1939-40; War Against Nazi Germany; Post-War Developments; The Soviet Armed Forces Today., (Order No: 43721 ), $12.50
95. Oakley, Jane, RASPUTIN: RASCAL MASTER, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1989) 1st ed, over 150 B&W and color ill., 208pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312032277 "A highly illustrated, colorful biography of one of our most celebrated dark heros of the past.", (Order No: 5919 ), $7.50
96. Paxton, John, COMPANION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY, Facts on File Publications, New York, (1983) 2nd ptg, maps, 503pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0871967715 More than 2,500 clean and concise descriptionsand definitions of the events, people, places, movements and institutions that have shaped Russian history from the 10th Century through the end of the Khrushchev era., (Order No: 50301 ), $5.00
97. Pearlstien, Edward W. (ed), REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA!: AS REPORTED BY THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE AND THE NEW YORK HERALD, 1894-1921, The Viking Press, New York, (1967), B&W illustrations, 297pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), From the death of Alexander III in 1894 and the intoxicating freshness of the new century, through mounting frustrations and tensions, to the final emergence of the Communist state, the reader is gripped by the rush of events., (Order No: 13393 ), $8.00
98. Petrov, Vadim; Lysenko, Igor; and, Egorov, Georgy (with personal reminiscences by the Family of Vasily Filatov), THE ESCAPE OF ALEXEI, SON OF TSAR NICHOLAS II: WHAT HAPPENED THE NIGHT THE ROMANOV FAMILY WAS EXECUTED, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, (1998), B&W illustrations, 240pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0810932776 Compelling new evidence reveals that Tsarevich Alexei, the fourteen-year-old son of Nicholas II and Alexandra and heir to the Russian throne, escaped the bloodshed and was adopted by a peasant family., (Order No: 26924 ), $6.00
99. Pronin, Alexander and Pronin, Barbara, RUSSIAN FOLK ARTS, A. S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick, NJ, (1975), B&W and color illustrations, 192pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 049801276X Presents a historical survey of twelve major folk art handicrafts of European Russia, fron archaeological findings of the ninth and tenth centuries, through the icons of postmedieval times and eighteenth and nineteenth-century lubki, to the painted matryoshki, and bonecarvings of the present-day USSR., (Order No: 5229 ), $12.50
100. Raack, R. C., STALIN'S DRIVE TO THE WEST 1938-1945 - THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1995, B&W illustrations, 265pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804724156 Exploiting new findings from former East Bloc archives and fron long-ignored Western sources, this book presents a wholly new picture of the coming of World War II, Allied wartime diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War., (Order No: 51700 ), $35.00
101. Radzinsky, Edvard (translated from the Russian by Judson Rosengrant), THE RASPUTIN FILE, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, (2000) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 524pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0385489099 In 1995, a file from the State Archives that had been missing for years came up for auction at Sotheby's, and was put in Radzinsky's hands. It contained the interrogations of Rasputin's inner circle of admirers and those who kept him under police surveillance--documents never seen by any other historian. With this file, Radzinsky is able to transform the biography of Rasputin from mysterious legend into fact., (Order No: 53081 ), $12.50
102. Rapoport, Vitaly and Alexeev, Yuri; Treml, Vladimir G. (editor); Adams, Bruce (co-editor and translator), HIGH TREASON: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF THE RED ARMY, 1918-1938, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1985, 463pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0822306476 "An impassioned account, from a patriotic Russian viewpoint, of the Civil War, the party struggles of the 1920s, the purges of the thirties and their tragic consequences for the Red Army in the beginnings of World War II.", (Order No: 52900 ), $30.00
103. Razina, Tatyana; Cherkasova, Natalia; and, Kantsedikas, Alexander, FOLK ART IN THE SOVIET UNION, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, (1990), 1430 ill. incl. 705 in color, 459pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0810909448 The first large, comprehensive survey aimed at providing a panoramic view of folk arts and crafts in the USSR. Never-before-seen objects from every region, from the European border to the Pacific Ocean and from the Arctic to the southern deserts, dating mostly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are presented., (Order No: 15420 ), $70.00
104. Richards, Guy, THE HUNT FOR THE CZAR, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1970 1st ed, 39 B&W plates, 265pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The full story of an amazing hunt begun in 1918 to unravel the true fate of the family of Nicolas and Alexandra., (Order No: 20999 ), $7.50
105. Robbins, Richard G., FAMINE IN RUSSIA 1891-1892 -- THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO A CRISIS, Columbia University Press, New York, 1975, 262pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231038364 The first full-scale assessment of the famine which swept Russia in the early 1890s., (Order No: 50370 ), $7.50
106. Romano-Petrova, N. (with an introduction by Alexis Scherbatow) (translated from the Russian by Michelle Petroff), STALIN'S DOCTOR - STALIN'S NURSE -- A MEMOIR BY N. ROMANO-PETROVA, The Kingston Press, Inc., Princeton, NJ, (1984) 1st Amer, 76pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0940670224 Petrova's memoir has substantial value because it is based on Dr. Pletnev, who was a famous heart specialist and private doctor of Joseph Stalin., (Order No: 50197 ), $45.00
107. Rosenberg, William G. and Young, Marilyn B., TRANSFORMING RUSSIA AND CHINA: REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Oxford University Press, New York, 1982 1st ptg, 397pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), review slip, ISBN 0195029658 A comparative history of the Russian and Chinese revolutions, stressing both their common themes and their widely differing settings., (Order No: 14505 ), $12.50
108. Rosenberg, William G., and Siegelbaum, Lewis H. (edited by), SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF SOVIET INDUSTRIALIZATION, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1993) 1st ptg, 296pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 025320772X The essays assembled here focus on the social and cultural dimensions of Soviet industrialization during the late 1920s and 1930s and their impact on the process of Soviet industrial transformation., (Order No: 50535 ), $12.50
109. Salisbury, Harrison E., BLACK NIGHT, WHITE SNOW: RUSSIA'S REVOLUTIONS, 1905-1917, Cassell, London, (1978), 746pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The fall of the Romanov dynasty and the triumph of revolution in Russia, 1905-1917, is one of the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century. The author tells this great story in a fast-moving narrative that is a fusion of people, facts and suspense., (Order No: 20113 ), $5.00
110. Salisbury, Harrison E. (designed by Jean-Claude Suares), RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION: 1900-1930, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1978) 1st ed, B&W and color illustrations, 285pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0030187060 This book presents, in words and pictures, a portrait of thirty years of political and artistic upheaval., (Order No: 21343 ), $7.50
111. Salisbury, Harrison E. (edited by), THE SOVIET UNION: THE FIFTY YEARS, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York, (1967) 1st ed, B&W ill., 484pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), To compile this analysis of Soviet life, The New York Times sent top reporters to the U.S.S.R. in the spring of 1967 to investigate significant aspects of the Soviet Union in the fifty years since the Russian Revolution., (Order No: 33638 ), $14.50
112. Saul, Norman E., SAILORS IN REVOLT: THE RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET IN 1917, The Regents Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (1978), B&W maps, B&W ill., 312pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 070060166X The Russian Revolution of 1917 is recognized as one of the most important events of the twentieth century. This volume is the first serious study in English of the Baltic fleet throughout the revolutionary period., (Order No: 20334 ), $15.00
113. Saunders, M. G. (editor), THE SOVIET NAVY, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, (1958), B&W illustrations, 340pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 5445 ), $7.00
114. Schmeckebier, Alexandra K. (with a preface and epilogue by Laurence E. Schmeckebier), PRINCESS IN PARADISE, Phoenix Publishing, Canaan, NH, (1981), B&W illustrations, 436pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0914016806 This is the rich saga of a distinguished family stemming from the marriage of two traditions: a gracious Russian mother of noble lineage, and a genial though Bismarckian father from the German Rhineland., (Order No: 43072 ), $7.50
115. Scott, Harriet Fast and Scott, William F., THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USSR, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, (1979), B&W illustrations, 439pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover) BCE, (Order No: 24777 ), $8.50
116. Service, Robert, LENIN: A POLITICAL LIFE - VOLUME 1: THE STRENGTHS OF CONTRADICTION, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1985) 1st ptg, 246pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253333245 Covers the years from 1870 to 1910 tracing Lenin's rise to authority and reputation among Russian Marxists around the turn of the century., (Order No: 53038 ), $12.50
117. Sevruk, Vladimir (compiled by); Bean, Bryan (edited by), MOSCOW 1941-1942 STALINGRAD -- MOSCOW STALINGRAD 1941/1942: RECOLLECTIONS, STORIES, REPORTS, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Russia, (1974) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 280pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In the winter of 1941, 78 choice Nazi divisions, 1,700 tanks and over 1,000 planes were drawn up near Moscow to carry out operation Typhoon. The Germans had come so close to Moscow that German could be heard on the radio on any wave length., (Order No: 53023 ), $17.50
118. Shanin, Teodor, THE AWKWARD CLASS: POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF PEASANTRY IN A DEVELOPING SOCIETY - RUSSIA 1910-1925, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1972, 253pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0198214936, (Order No: 50104 ), $75.00
119. Siegelbaum, Lewis H., STAKHANOVISM AND THE POLITICS OF PRODUCTIVITY IN THE USSR, 1935-1941, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, (1990), 325pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0521395569, (Order No: 50325 ), $10.00
120. Siegelbaum, Lewis H.; and, Suny, Ronald Grigor (edited by), MAKING WORKERS SOVIET: POWER, CLASS, AND IDENTITY, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1994), 399pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0801482119 The first book to examine the shifting identity of the "working class" in late tsarist and early Soviet societies., (Order No: 53035 ), $8.00
121. Smith, Graham (edited by), THE NATIONALITIES QUESTION IN THE SOVIET UNION, Longman, London, (1992) 4th ptg, 389pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 058203955X Provides systematic and authoritative coverage of the twenty most important nationalities within the Soviet Union accounting for over 90% of the total population., (Order No: 50763 ), $5.00
122. Spring, Norma, ROAMING RUSSIA: SIBERIA AND MIDDLE ASIA, Superior Publishing Company, Seattle, WA, (1973) 1st ed, B&W photographs, 191pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 12508 ), $7.50
123. Stent, Angela E., RUSSIA AND GERMANY REBORN - UNIFICATION, THE SOVIET COLLAPSE, AND THE NEW EUROPE, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1999) 2nd ptg, 300pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, ISBN 0691059659, (Order No: 50102 ), $5.00
124. Stephenson, Graham, RUSSIA FROM 1812 TO 1945: A HISTORY, Praeger Publishers, New York, (1970), B&W plates, 467pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author's purpose here is to introduce the reader to the interlinked strands of Russian political, social, economic, and intellectual development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries., (Order No: 16752 ), $7.00
125. Szvak, Gyula (translated from the Hungarian by Peter Daniel; foreword by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky), FALSE TSARS, Social Sciences Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2000, 181pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0880334533 A summary treatment of almost countless pretenders to the Russian throne who claimed to be the rightful soverigns of the country and the people, from the sixteenth century and especially the Time of Troubles to the twentieth., (Order No: 35124 ), $30.00
126. Tarasulo, Isaac J. (edited by), GORBACHEV AND GLASNOST - VIEWPOINTS FROM THE SOVIET PRESS, SR Books, Wilmington, DE, (1989), 363pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0842023372, (Order No: 51384 ), $4.00
127. Theen, Rolf H. W., LENIN: GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A REVOLUTIONARY, Quartet Books, London, (1974), 146pp, good, purple cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0704320487 This biography of Lenin differs from most in concentrating on the Bolshevik leaders formative period and, while not ignoring the impact of Marxism, highlights the peculiarly Russian origins of Lenin's thought., (Order No: 26883 ), $5.00
128. Travis, Frederick F., GEORGE KENNAN AND THE AMERICAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONSHIP 1865-1924, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, (1990), B&W illustrations, 433pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) UNDERLINE ABOUT 8 LINES, ISBN 0821409344 George Kennan's career as a specialist on Russian affairs began in 1865, with his first journey to the Russian empire. A twenty-year old telegraphic engineer at the time, he was a memeber of the Russian-American Telegraph Expedition., (Order No: 51685 ), $60.00
129. Trotsky, Leon; Zarudnaya, Elena (translated from the Russian by), TROTSKY'S DIARY IN EXILE, 1935, Faber and Faber, London, (1958), B&W frontis, 176pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) couple marginal pencil marks, The diary of the exiled Trotsky, written in Mexico in February 1940 near the close of his life. NOTE - couple chips on dustjacket., (Order No: 53085 ), $10.00
130. Tucker, Robert C. (edited by), STALINISM - ESSAYS IN HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1977), 332pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0393008924, (Order No: 50181 ), $4.00
131. Tucker, Robert C., POLITICAL CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP IN SOVIET RUSSIA - FROM LENIN TO GORBACHEV, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1987) 1st Amer, 214pp, very good, wraps (softcover) MARGINAL PENCIL ON ABOUT 10 PAGES, ISBN 0393957985, (Order No: 50324 ), $4.00
132. Tupper, Harmon, TO THE GREAT OCEAN: THE TAMING OF SIBERIA AND THE BUILDING OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA, (1965) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 536pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 7460 ), $5.00
133. Turgenev, Ivan (translated from the Russian by Charles and Natasha Hepburn), A SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK, The Cresset Press, London, 1950, 398pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "In the form of episodes loosely linked together by the common thread of the author's shooting experiences, Turgenev's SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK gives a picture of life in rural Russia, a hundred years ago which is unrivalled in vividness and as entertainment.", (Order No: 52425 ), $6.00
134. Ulam, Adam B., EXPANSION AND COEXISTENCE - THE HISTORY OF SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY, 1917-67, Frederick A. Praeger, New York, (1969) 2nd ptg, 775pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 50731 ), $5.00
135. van Heijenoort, Jean, WITH TROTSKY IN EXILE: FROM PRINKIPO TO COYOACAN, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1978, B&W illustrations, 164pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0674802551 An historical record giving new insights into the Bolshevik seizure of power, the character of its architects, and the roles of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin and many of the lesser luminaries surrounding them., (Order No: 53082 ), $25.00
136. Vasilieva, Larissa (translated from the Russian by Cathy Porter), KREMLIN WIVES: THE SECRET LIVES OF THE WOMEN BEHIND THE KREMLIN WALLS, FROM LENIN TO GORBACHEV, Arcade Publishing, New York, (1994) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 251pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1559702605 Here is the stark and often shocking truth about these women thanks to the courageous efforts and dogged persistence fo Larissa Vasilieva., (Order No: 44835 ), $4.50
137. Warth, Robert D., SOVIET RUSSIA IN WORLD POLITICS, Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, (1964) 2nd ptg, 544pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with usual markings, (Order No: 50730 ), $6.00
138. Wesson, Robert G., SOVIET COMMUNES, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, (1963), 275pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The only comprehensive study of Soviet communes in any language, including Russian., (Order No: 44779 ), $7.50
139. Westad, Odd Arne (edited by), BROTHERS IN ARMS: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SINO-SOVIET ALLIANCE, 1945-1963, Woodrow Wilson/Stanford Univ, Washington, D.C./Stanford, (1998) 1st ptg, 404pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804734844 Scholars analyze the complicated and often stormy history of the Sino-Soviet relationship from World War II to the 1960s., (Order No: 53079 ), $75.00
140. White, Stephen; Gardner, John; and, Schopflin, George, COMMUNIST POLITICAL SYSTEMS: AN INTRODUCTION - SECOND EDITION, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1987), 319pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 031200723X, (Order No: 50537 ), $5.00
141. Wolfe, Bertram D. (introduction by Lewis S. Feuer), REVOLUTION AND REALITY: ESSAYS ON THE ORIGIN AND FATE OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1981), 401pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 0807814539 A brilliant collection of nineteen essays on Russian history and politics., (Order No: 53029 ), $6.00
142. Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, A RUSSIAN'S AMERICAN DREAM - A MEMOIR ON WILLIAM FREY, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS, 1965, 147pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), William Frey (the adopted name of the son of a Russian general) gave up the prospect of a brilliant career in geodetics at home, and in 1868 emigrated to the United States with his bride., (Order No: 50158 ), $12.50
143. Zenkovsky, Serge A. (edited, translated, and with an introduction by), MEDIEVAL RUSSIA'S EPICS, CHRONICLES, AND TALES - REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1974 2nd ed, 526pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0525473637 First published in 1963. Over 60 selectionsfrom the finest of Russia's medieval authors., (Order No: 50393 ), $6.00
144. Zirkle, Conway (edited by), DEATH OF A SCIENCE IN RUSSIA: THE FATE OF GENETICS AS DESCRIBED IN PRAVDA AND ELSEWHERE, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1949, 319pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Professor Zirkle describes the trial and suicide of Paul Kammerer, the martyrdom of N. J. Vavilov, and quotes the articles on Soviet biology by L. C. Dunn, Karl Sax, Anton K. Zhebrak, C. D. Darlington, Th. Dobzhansky, H. J. Muller, and others., (Order No: 51579 ), $8.50