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[002763] Alexandrov, Victor. The Tukhachevsky Affair. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1964. 1st American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. 201pp/illus, Story of the 1937 execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky, Chief of Staff of the Red Army in Stalin's purge. $24.50
[000081] Anisimov, Evgenii V.; Alexander, John T. (translator). The Reforms of Peter the Great : Progress Through Coercion in Russia (New Russian History Ser.). Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Incorporated, 1993. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / Very Good. ISBN: 1563240475. Book has 328 pages with a few illustrations. DJ has chip on front that has been repaired with tape. First book in The New Russian History series. This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than a larger goa l of human emancipation? What was the price of power - for Russia, and for Peter himself? $19.50
[004397] Baron, Samuel H., Ed. . The Travels of Olearius in 17th Century Russia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1967. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good+ / Very Good. 349pp/illus. This first hand account of the travels of Adam Oelshlager through Muscovy and Tartary from 1633 to 1636 was first published in 1647. For many decades this work shaped Europe's image of these distant lands. Clean $34.50
[000288] Barron, John. KGB : The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents. New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1974. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0883490099. Book has 462 pages with some illustrations. DJ has faded spot by bottom of binding. Light wear to edge. This book explains what the KGB is, all that it did, and how it exercised its largely unseen influence upon the world. $22.50
[004416] Bashkina, Nina N., Nikolai N. Bolhovitinov, John H. Brown, J. Dane Hartgrove, Ivan I. Kudriatsev, Natal'ia B. Kuznetsova, Ronal D. Landa, Valerii N. Ponomarev, Charles S. Sampson, Boris M. Shpotov, Natal'ia V. Ushakova (editors). The United States and Russia : The Beginning of Relations, 1765-1815. Washington, D.C: U S Government Printing Office, 1980. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth. Very Good+ / Very Good(-). 1,184pp/maps/illus. First joint Soviet-American publication of its kind,a documentary collection containing materials from archives and manuscript repositories in the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Contains a broad spectrum of commercial, scientific, cultural and diplomatic contacts; illustrated with numerous portraits, sketches, facsimiles, and maps. Light wear to dj. $97.50
[000131] Beichman, Arnold. The Long Pretense : Soviet Treaty Diplomacy from Lenin to Gorbachev. Piscataway, NJ, U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good+. ISBN: 0887383602. Book has acetate covered dj. Edge of dj wrinkle in front bottom. A look into Soviet treaty diplomacy from Lenin to Gorbachev. $23.50
[000775] Billington, James H.. The Icon and the Axe : An Interpretive History of the Russian Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good+ / No Jacket. Book has 786 pages plus index. A few full page b&w illustrations on glossy paper. Light wear to edge of cover - maroon cloth with gilt. Book is in very good+ condition EXCEPT for many pen marks on 3 pages of the preface. Sections: Background, The Confrontation, The Century of Schism, The Century of Aristocratic Culture, On to New Shores, and the Uncertain Colossus. $19.50
[000596] Blum, J.. Lord & Peasant in Russia : From the 9th to the 19th Century. Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 1971. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket Issued. ISBN: 0-691-00764-0. 656 pages with several maps. Traces the history of the Russian lords and peasants and the relationship between them. $14.50
[000937] Bobrovnitskaya, I.. The Armory in the Moscow Kremlin. Moscow, Russia: Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers, 1990. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 5269006057. 431 pages lavishly illustrated. Main body of text in Russian, captions under photos in Russian and English. Wonderful color illustrations, featuring Russian gold and silver, arms and armour, precious textiles and embroidery, historical regalia and ceremonial paraphenalia, ornamental horse trappings, royal carriages, etc. Only 20,000 copies printed. $84.50
[000496] Bradsher, Henry S.. Afghanistan & the Soviet Union (Duke Press Policy Studies). Durham, NC, U.S.A.: Duke University Press, 1985. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket Issued. ISBN: 0-8223-0690-5. 384 pages. An authoritative reference on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. $9.50
[000825] Carr, Edward Hallett and R. W. Davies. Twilight of the Comintern, 1930-1935. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1982. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0394525124. Book has 461 pages. Light wear to the edge of dj at bottom front corners and top edge by binding. Inside - clean and tight! Carr wrote the fourteen-volume history of Soviet Russia which was through 1929 and this book follows that up into the 1930s and covers Moscow's relationship with communist parties in other countries. $17.50
[001662] Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror. New York: MacMillan, 1968. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 633 pages. The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was written two decades ago, and he relied heavily on unofficial sources. Now with the advent of glasnost, an avalanche of new material is available, and Conquest has mined this enormous cache to write a substanial new edition of his classic work. It is remarkable how many of Conquest's most disturbing conclusions have borne up under the light of fresh evidence. Conquest has added to the detail, including hitherto secret information on the three great 'Moscow Trials' on the fate of the executed generals, on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters. Light wear to dj. $24.50
[000988] Cowles, Virginia. The Romanovs. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1971. 1st Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0060109084. Book has 288 pages with illustrations. DJ has light wear to the edge. Previous owner blind embossed library stamp in one of the front endpapers. The Romanov dynasty, ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917. A portrait gallery of the outstanding members of this almost incredible family, cutting away the mass of obscure and unfamiliar historical detail which surrounds them. $16.50
[000940] Cowles, Virginia. The Russian Dagger: Cold War in the Days of the Czars . New York: Harper & Row, 1969. 1st American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good(-). 351 pages with several photographs/illustrations. History of Russia's plots to extend her empire in Europe prior to World War I. DJ has light wear. $18.50
[001448] Dallin, David J.. Soviet Espionage . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good(-) / No Jacket. 558 pages. History of Soviet espionage and spying before, during and after World War II. Has some notations on index page and inside rear fly leaf. Otherwise clean and very good. $39.50
[003946] Daly, John C.K.. Russian Seapower and the Eastern Question 1827-41. Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Pr, 1991. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Near Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 1-55750-726-0. 314pp. A study of the Russian use of the Black Sea Fleet between 1827 and 1841 including the action at Navarino, the Russian-Turkish war and Russia's growing regional commitments. $39.50
[000598] Dunlop, John. The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 1993. 1st American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0-691-07875-0. 360 pages. Sweeping history of the period 1985-1991 and the great bloodless revolution in Russia. $18.50
[000582] Dziak, John J.. Chekisty : A History of the KGB. San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Jossey-Bass, Incorporated Publishers, 1987. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-669-10258-x. 234 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Detailed history of the Soviet Secret Police. $17.50
[000543] Ekedahl, Carolyn M.; Goodman, Melvin A.. The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze. University Park, PA, U.S.A.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0271016043. Book has 331 pages with a couple of illustrations. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. Shevardnadze was foreign minister of the Soviet Union and along with Gorbachev and Yakovlev led the dramatic Soviet about-face int he 1980s that ended the Cold War. $22.50
[003738] Fulop-Miller, Rene . Rasputin: The Holy Devil. New York: Viking, 1928. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. 386 pp./illus. Rasputin was one of the most mysterious figures of modern times - a Siberian peasant who swayed men and nations by the power of his eye, the intimate of Russian aristocracy and confidant of the Empress. $57.50
[002718] Gleason, Abbott. Young Russia : The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1980. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0670794597. 437pp, The 1861 Edict of Emancipitation; the birth of revolutionary movements; exploration of why as related to our own epoch. $26.50
[001632] Gorshkov, Sergei; Crozey, Alan (translator). Sea Power of the State. Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press, 1979. 1st American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-87021-961-8. 290 pages. Translation of Admiral Gorshkov's book. Small hole in dj on cover. $22.50
[000599] Harcave, Sidney. Years of the Golden Cockerel: The Last Romanov Tsars 1814-1917. New York, NY: MacMillan, 1968. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. 515 pages with several illustrations/photos and end-paper maps. Details the history of the last 100 years of Russian rule by the Romanovs. (dj has wear/chipping) $37.50
[001937] Hingley, Ronald. The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations, 1565-1970. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0091041406. 313 pages; The history of the use of secret police in Russia and in the Soviet Union to control internal dissent. First Printing. $24.50
[001420] Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb : The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-56. New Haven, CT, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1994. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good+. ISBN: 0-300-06056-4. 464 pages with several photos. Study of Soviet efforts to build an atomic bomb. $18.50
[004202] Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb : The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-56. New Haven, CT, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1994. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 0-300-06056-4. 464 pages with several photos. Study of Soviet efforts to build an atomic bomb. Previous owner bookplate inside front cover. $19.50
[000401] Hughes, Lindsey. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven, CT, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1998. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / Very Good. ISBN: 0-300-07539-1. 602 pages with several photos. History of Russia during the time of Peter the Great from 1672-1725. $25.50
[000707] Hunt, Richard N.. The Political Ideas of Marx & Engels, Vol. 2 : Classical Marxism 1850-1895. Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good(-) / Very Good(-). ISBN: 0-8229-3496-5. 421 pages. Study of Marx's writings during the last half of the 1800s. Has some light underlining and dj is chipped. $27.50
[002795] Ilyin, M.. Moscow. Monuments of Architecture of the 14th - 17th Centuries.. Moscow, Russia: Isskustvo Art Publishers , 1973. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (folio). Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. 106 pages of text (illustrated with reproductions of old engravings) + platesd with 240 photos in colour and b/w $39.50
[003156] Isby, David C.. Ten Million Bayonets : Inside the Armies of the Soviet Union. London, New York, Toronto, Sydney: Arms & Armour Press, 1988. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0853687749. Book has 128 pages with illustrations. Light wear to edge of dj. Examines the various components of the Soviet Army, its personnel and its equipments, selecting specific formations and units to paint a detailed picture of this formidable fighting force. $27.50
[000463] Isby, David C.. Ten Million Bayonets : Inside the Armies of the Soviet Union. London, New York, Toronto, Sydney: Arms & Armour Press, 1988. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0853687749. Book has 128 pages with illustrations. Light wear to edge of dj. Examines the various components of the Soviet Army, its personnel and its equipments, selecting specific formations and units to paint a detailed picture of this formidable fighting force. $24.50
[000653] Kaplan, Morton A. (editor); Shtromas, Alexander (editor). The Soviet Union & the Challenge of the Future : Economics & Society (Vol. 2). Saint Paul, MN, U.S.A.: Paragon House Publishers, 1989. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-943852-33-1. 764 pages. Details the economic and social challenges facing the Soviet Union in 1988. $19.50
[001429] Karger, M. K.. Ancient Kiev (Drevni Kiev) Volume 2 (10th - 13th Centuries) . Moscow, Russia: Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1961. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 661 pages with numerous photos, maps, illustrations and line drawings. Covers the history and architecture of Ancient Kiev. Includes several fold-out maps and drawings. Much on the church architecture. Russian text. $87.50
[000024] Kennan, George F.. The Decision to Intervene, The Prelude to Allied Intervention in the Bolshvik Revolution. Princeton. NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 513 pages with several photos. The second volume of Kennan's 2 volume Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. $22.50
[000023] Kennan, George F.. Russia Leaves the War, The Americans in Petrograd and the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton. NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Fair. 544 pages with several photos. The first volume of Kennan's two volume Soviet-American Relations 1917-1920. $22.50
[004482] Kerner, Robert J.. The Urge to the Sea: The Course of Russian History . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1946. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good+ / Very Good. 212p., 5 b/w illus., 20 maps, "The Role of Rivers, Portages, Ostrogs, Monasteries, and Furs. " Beautiful fold-out maps on india paper. DJ has taped repair. Clean $47.50
[003566] Knight, Amy W.; Knight, Amy. Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery. New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hill & Wang Pub, 1999. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 0 8090 6404 9. 331pp/illus. Appendices, Notes, Index. Reconstructs the haunting crime (murder of Sergei Kirov) and analyzes its impact on the Russian people. $24.50
[000888] Kurdov, V. I.. Along The Road With the Army (Po Dorogam Voeni). Leningrad, Russia: Kudoznik, 1970. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Slipcase. Contains 18 prints of World War II Russian military scenes. $44.50
[000856] Kuromiya, Hiroaki. Stalin's Industrial Revolution : Politics & Workers, 1928-1932 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, No. 60). New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 052135157X. Book has 364 pages with a few illustrations. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. The first detailed political and social history in English of Stalin's industrial revolution during the First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932. $24.50
[000671] Lambeth, Benjamin S.; Hardesty, Von (editor). Russia's Air Power in Crisis (Smithsonian History of Aviation Ser.). Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1560989912. Book has 253 pages with a few b&w illustrations. Light wear to edge of dj. DJ has a few scratches on the front on the glossy surface. Russia's air power has fallen on hard times since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. $19.50
[001403] Leonhard, Wolfgang. Three Faces of Marxism : The Origin and Development of Soviet Ideology, Maoism and Humanist Communism. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1996. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-03-088620-1. 497 pages. Theories of Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, and Humanist Marxism. DJ has light wear. $24.50
[000600] Lincoln, W. Bruce. Red Victory : A History of the Russian Civil War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1990. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-671-63166-7. 637 pages with some photos and end-paper maps. Vivid history of the Russian Civil War from 1918-1921. $18.50
[002949] Lossky, N.O.. History of Russian Philosophy. London: George Alllen & Unwin Ltd, 1952. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Decorative Boards. Very Good / No Jacket. 409pp + index. Contents include: Russian Philosophy in the 18th and first part of 19th Century; Slavophils; Westernizers; Russian Materialists in the Sixties - Nihilism; Russian Positivists; The Russian Personalists; The Russian Neo-Kantians; Scientist Philosophers; Dialectical Materialism; etc., etc. $24.50
[000240] Mangold, Tom; Summers, Anthony. The File on the Tsar : The Fate of the Romanovs - Dramatic New Evidence. New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1976. 1st American Edition. Double Elephant - over 25" - 50" tall. Cloth. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0060128070. Book has 416 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to edge of dj and a few small chips at corners. An intense investigation leads to this book which is filled with relevations: it discloses the callous roles played by King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm; it rekindles the controversy surrounding the wmoan who claims to be Anastasia - the sole survivor; it demonstrated that vital evidence regarding the survival of the tsar's family was suppressed by official investigators; and above all, it presents new and compelling evidence that most of the Romanovs were not massacred at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg and did survive after July 1918. $29.50
[003339] Masaryk, Thomas Garrigue. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy (2 Vols) 1,2. London, England: George Allen & Unwin , 1968. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good(-). Vol 1 - 480pp. Vol 2 - 664pp. Book discusses Russia's nationalism, philosophic and literary influences and much more. Light staining/wear to djs. $74.50
[000237] Massie, Robert K.. Peter the Great : His Life & His World. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0394500326. Book has 909 pages with endpaper maps and illustrations. DJ is chipped. Cover has light wear to edge. A tital of history, a maker fo the modern world, a man of intense fascination, Peter the Great is for the first time grought fully to life in this huge, richly conceived and executed book - the magnificient new biography. $24.50
[000850] Medvedev, Roy A.; Shriver, George (editor); ; Shriver, George (translator). Let History Judge : The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 1989. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Book Club Ed. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0231063504. Book has 903 pages. Previous owner's name smally penned in rear endpaper. Light wear to edge of dj. The most comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union. An extensively revised and expanded version of a class work. $16.50
[001630] Mitchell, Donald W.. A History of Russian and Soviet Sea Power. New York: MacMillan, 1974. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 657 pages/photos, maps. History of the Russian and Soviet Navies from the time of Peter the Great to the 1970s. $19.50
[002507] Mitchell, Mairin.. The Maritime History of Russia 848-1948 . London: Sidgwick & Jackson , 1949. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. ppxvi, 543 with 18 maps, 3 folding and numerous plates. A comprehensive study tracing the expansion of Russian sea power through the ages, 848-1948, and her relations with two other great naval powers, England and the United States. Notation on title page. $72.50
[000550] Motyl, Alexander J.. Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality : Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the U. S. S. R.. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 1990. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0231073267. Book has 263 pages. DJ is mylar protected. The author examines the current state of Sovietology (after Gorbachev). He discusses the different outcomes achieve by non-Russian incipient states after the revolution. He then moves to address the origins, activities, and Soviet dismantling of guerrilla struggles of Baltic, Ukrainian, Daghestani, and Turkestani forces. $24.50
[000750] Nichols, Thomas M.. The Sacred Cause : Civil-Military Conflict over Soviet National Security, 1917-1992 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs). Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1993. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0801427746. Book has 259 pages. In this book, the author examines the struggles over national security policy between military officers and political leaders in the USSR, and shows that the Soviet civil-military relationship has a long history of conflict rather than cooperation. $19.50
[001940] Pearlstien, Edward W., (Editor). Revolution in Russia! As Reported by the New York Tribune and the New York Herald, 1894-1921. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1967. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good(-). 297 pages/photos/illus. This book presents the unfolding of the Russian Revolution day by day as a reader of the time might have experienced it in his daily newspaper. Small tear in dj at spine. $19.50
[000731] Perry, John C.; Pleshakov, Constantine V.. Flight of the Romanovs : A Family Saga. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 1999. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / Very Good(-). ISBN: 0465024629. Book has 427 pages with illustrations. DJ has light wear to edge and has a very light water mark inside. The book cover and pages look clean! Conspiracy and murder, imprisonment, torture, flight, and abduction punctuate the story of the Romanovs, Russia's last imperial dynasty, during their last century. $17.50
[001512] Petrov, Vadim. The Escape of Alexei : What Happened the Night the Romanov Family Was Executed. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1998. 1st Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good(-). ISBN: 0-8109-3277-6. 240 pages with numerous photos. The story of Alexei, son of Tsar Nicholas II and what might have happened to him. Back of DJ has several indentations. $24.50
[002053] Podrabinek, Alexander; Lehrman, Alexander (translator). Punitive Medicine. Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Karoma Publishers, Incorporated, 1980. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-89720-022-5. 223pp. With dust jacket. Trans. from the Russian by Alexander Lehman. Book on the abuses of medicine in the former Soviet Union, by a young medical worker exiled to Siberia. Translated from the Russian manuscript smuggled to the West. $32.50
[002915] Pulikuna, U. M.. Tables on Sections of Morphology of the Russian Language (Tablitsy Po Nekotorim Razdelam Morphologii Ruskogo Yazika). Moscow, Russia: 1961. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Folio. Very Good / No Jacket. Consists of 57 approx 20"x26" foldout charts showing variations in Russian words/language. Set originally had 64 charts (7 are missing - #19, 20, 32-34,41 & 46). Otherwise clean and in excellent condition. Only 10,000 set printed. $195.00
[000826] Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks Come to Power : The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, 1976. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+ / Very Good(-). ISBN: 0393055868. Book has 393 pages with a few illustrations and endpaper maps. Dj has some wear/small chips along the edge. Front flyleaf has corner clipped. This book explodes the myth propounded by Soviet historians that the party's triumph in the October revolution was inevitable, as well as the assumption of most Western historians that the Bolsheviks won primarily because of their unity, discipline, and responsiveness to Lenin's revolutionary leadership. $18.50
[001404] Rabinowitch, Alexander. Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1968. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 299 pages with several photos and maps. Light chipping to dj. $19.50
[000493] Radzinsky, Edvard. The Last Tsar : The Life & Death of Nicholas II. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1992. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-385-42371-3. 462 pages with several photos. Detailed biography of Russia's last Czar and his execution in 1918. $18.50
[000512] Read, Anthony; Fisher, David. Deadly Embrace : Hitler, Stalin & the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941. New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-393-02528-4. 687 pages with several maps and photos. Has gift inscription inside front cover. History of the Nazi-Soviet relations and their mutual non-aggression pact from 1939 to 1941. $19.50
[001532] Rubenstein, Richard E.. Comrade Valentine : The True Story of Azef the Spy - the Most Dangerous Man in Russia at the Time of the Last Czars . San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. 1st American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 0-15-152895-0. 316 pages. Biography of Yevno Azef - Russian Secret Police spy in Czarist Russia. $19.50
[001691] Ruge, Friederich. The Soviets As Naval Opponents, 1941-45. Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press, 1979. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-87021-676-7. 210 pages with photos/maps. An analytical history of Soviet naval practices during the Second World War in the Arctic, Baltic, Black, and Mediterranean seas as well as in the Pacific Ocean. And as Admiral Ruge says "a picture of its operations during the last war is important for understanding its role today." The book puts political and military deelopments into historical perspective by examining the Russo-Japanes war years, activities in the Baltic and the Black Sea dduring World War 1, and the period between the wars. $19.50
[000944] Sack, A. J.. The Birth of the Russian Democracy . New York: Russian Information Bureau , 1918. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Cloth. Inscribed by the Author. Very Good(-) / No Jacket. 536 pages with several photos/illustrations. *** Inscribed by the author and signed by the owner "Williams" in Archangle, Russia 1918.*** History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement in Imperial Russia. Spine has staining - otherwise very good. $67.50
[000661] Schapiro, Leonard. The Russian Revolutions of Nineteen Seventeen. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 1934. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-465-07154-6. 239 pages. Details Russian history. $18.50
[002014] Schweinfurth, Phillip (introduction). Russian Icons. New York: Iris/Oxford University Press , 1953. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall - Folio. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good(-). 61p 14 color plates and 12 full page illustrations, Color plates are all tipped in. $29.50
[000853] Seaton, Albert; Seaton, Jean. The Soviet Army : Nineteen Eighteen to the Present. New York, NY, U.S.A.: N A L, 1987. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0453005519. Book has 292 pages with a few illustrations, maps and charts. This work cuts through all the miasma of myth and controversy surrounding the Red Army. We come to see how a synthesis of Tsarist tradition, German example, and revolutionary pressure combined to mold the army in the years following the Bolshevik takeover, and how such conflicting figures as Trotsky and Stalin put their personal stamps on the new force. $13.50
[001443] Shelov, D. B.. Russian Numismatic Encyclopedia (Numizmatika y Epigraphika) - 15 Vol Set. Moscow, Russia: Academy of Sciences, 1960. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good / No Jacket. 15 volume set. Each volume has 289 pages (+) with numerous photos/illustrations. Some fold-out charts. Extensive coverage of Ancient and Roman Coins. Many pictures of different varieties. All volumes in vg condition. Text in Russian. $495.00
[000652] Shtromas, Alexander (editor); Kaplan, Morton A. (editor). The Soviet Union and the Challenge of the Future (Vol. I: The Soviet System: Stasis & Change). Saint Paul, MN, U.S.A.: Paragon House Publishers, 1988. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-943852-29-3. 555 pages. Details the Soviet system in 1988 and posible future alternatives. $19.50
[001107] Shukman, Harold. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution. Malden, MA, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishers, 1988. 1st Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-631-15238-5. 418 pages with several illustrations. Covers development of revolutionary movements, the military, the secret police, etc and provides a chronological account of events of the Revolution. $44.50
[002327] Silverlight, John. The Victors' Dilemma: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War . New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 392 pages with several maps and end-paper maps. History of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. DJ shows light wear. $24.50
[001546] Silverlight, John. The Victors' Dilemma: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War . New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 392 pages with several maps and end-paper maps. History of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. DJ shows light wear. $22.50
[001533] Sjeklocha, Paul and Igor Mead. Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union. Berkeley, CA: Univeristy of California Press, 1967. 1st American Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good(-). 213 pages with numerous illustrations. Story of independent artists in the Soviet Union. $47.50
[004649] Skatov, N. Alexander S. Pushkin (Aleksandr Sergeivich Pushkin 200 years) . Moscow, Russia: 1999. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Faux Leather. As New / No Jacket Issued. ISBN: 5-7793-0176-X. 384pp/illus. Beautifully illustrated and bound biography of Alexander Pushkin. English and Russian text. As new. Only 5,000 copies printed. $74.50
[000881] Spassky, I. And E. Shchukina. Medals and Coins of the Age of Peter the Great from the Hermitage Collection. Leningrad, Russia: Aurora Art Publishers, 1974. 1st Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket Issued. approx 150 pages with numerous b&w and color photos and illustrations. Includes several fold-out illustrations. Describes and illustrates various Russian coins and medals from the 17th-18th Centuries. Russian and English Text. $39.50
[003215] Spector, Ivar. The Golden Age of Russian Literature (Essay Index Reprint Ser.). Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1943. 3rd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0836922980. 246pp/illus. Subject Heading: Russian literature Note: Reprint of the 1939 ed.; Includes bibliographies.; Denis Ivanovitch Fonvisin. --Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin. --Alexander Sergeyevitch Griboyedov. --Mikhail Yurevitch Lermontov. --Nikolai Vasilyevitch Gogol. --Ivan Alexandrovitch Gontcharov. --Ivan Sergeyevitch Turgenev. --Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky. --Lev. Nikolayevitch Tolstoy. --Alexander Nikolayevitch Ostrovsky. --Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov. --Leonid Nikolayevitch Andreyev. --Maxim Gorky $27.50
[001906] Stone, David R.. Hammer and Rifle : The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933 (Modern War Studies). Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.: University Press of Kansas, 2000. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 0700610375. 287 pages. Notes 4 appendices, index. Hardcover, sand cloth, spine lettered in red, with pictorial dust jacket. First edition. An important contribution to the field of Soviet military, economic, and political history. David Stone chronicles the massive militarization of the Soviet Union society between 1926 and 1933, and at the same time examines civil-military relations in an increasingly dangerous world. Based on extensive research in newly opened Russian archives. $29.50
[003130] Suvorov, Viktor. The Liberators : My Life in the Soviet Army. New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1983. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0393017591. Book has 202 pages. Previous owner embossed stamp on title page. A sardonic and highly personal document. Suvorov is the pseudonym of an officer in the post-Khrushchev Soviet army who defected recently to England. $19.50
[003501] Suvorov, Viktor. Spetsnaz : The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces . New York: W. W. Norton, 1987. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 0241119618. 213 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. Provides the first comprehensive insight for the West into an 'army within an army' whose existence has unitl recently been known only to a few highly placed people - most of whom would have denied it. Clean and unmarked. $39.50
[003839] Tager, Alexander B.. The Decay of Czarism: The Beiliss Trail. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1935. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. 297pp. Based on unpublished materials in the Russian archives, this book traces militant anti-Semitism as a Czarist governmental policy, especially in the 1913 trial of a Jew accused of murdering a Christian boy to use his blood in Jewish ritual. $74.50
[002270] Tarsaidze, Alexandre. Czars And Presidents: The Story of a Forgotten Friendship . New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good+. 383 pages/illus. Illustrated. Political relations between the United States & Russia during the time of the Czars. DJ torn along edges. $45.50
[001799] Tyrrell, Henry . The History of the War with Russia: Giving Full Details of the Operations of the Allied Armies (Vol 3) bound with The History of the Russian Empire from Its Foundation By Ruric the Pirate, to the Accession of the Emperor Alexander II. London: London Printing and Publishing Company , 1857. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Half-Leather. Very Good / No Jacket Issued. 354 pages plus index with 11 beautiful steel engravings (1st part) and 546 pages and 29 beautiful steel engravings and 2 beautiful double page steel-engraved/hand-colored maps of historical Russia. Both have steel engraved frontis and title pages. Some light foxing does not affect maps. Beautiful Crimean War history. $275.00
[000880] Uzdenikov, V. V.. Russian Coins 1700-1917 (Moneti Russi). Moscow, Russia: Mezhnumizmatika, 1992. Second Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good / No Jacket Issued. ISBN: 5713000265. 677 pages with numerous photos/illustrations. Fully catalogues and describes and illustrates all Russian coins from the Centralized Russian States and Imperial Russia. Includes illustrations of edges, mintmarks, variations, etc. Russian and English text. $64.50
[000700] Valenta, Jiri. Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968 : Anatomy of a Decision. Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket - Wraps. ISBN: 0-8018-2540-7. 208 pages. Detailed study of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. $12.50
[004138] Vassilyev, A. T. . The Ochrana. The Russian Secret Police. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Co. , 1930. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Ex-Library. Very Good / No Jacket. 305pp/illus. Written by the last head of the tsarist secret police (Okhrana); includes the part he played in Rasputin's death & his experiences during WWI & the Revolutions; comparison between the Okhrana & the Cheka, the Soviet secret police, in which he describes a kinder, gentler Okhrana. Tight. Usual markings. $49.50
[001925] Vernadsky, George. Kievan Russia . Princeton, New Jersey: Yale University Press, 1959. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good(-) / No Jacket. 412 pages with large fold-out map. History of Kievan Russia (878-1237). Book has light underlining throughout. $29.50
[000287] Vilkova, Valentina. The Struggle for Power : Russia in 1923 (From the Secret Archives of the Former Soviet Union Ser.). Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996. Cloth. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 1573920266. Book has 357 pages. Dj has light wear to edge. In the autumn and winter of 1923, an intense political drama took place in the Russian Communist Party, the consequences of which not only predetermined the tragic outcome in the personal fate of many of its participants but also, to a considerable extent, stipulated the character and orientation of later events in the Party and the country as a whole. As Lenin lay dying, the once-powerful Bolsheviks were splitting into hostile groups. $17.50
[000500] Volkogonov, Dmitri; Shukman, Harold (translator). Autopsy for an Empire : The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Free Press, 1998. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-684-83420-0. 572 pages with several photos. Dust jacket has small tear at top corner. Profile of seven successive Soviet leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev based on unequaled access to the Soviet archives. $19.50
[002343] Volodin, A.H.. Medals of the USSR (Medali CCCP).
St Petersurg, Russia: Pechatni Dvor, 1997. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good / No Jacket Issued. ISBN: 5-7062-0111-0. 301 pages with numerous b&w/color photos/illustrations. Detailed illustrations/pictures of each medal. Includes illustrations of various proposed designs. Text in English and Russian. Great reference. $39.50
[000885] Von Hagen, Mark. Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship : The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930 (Cornell Studies in Soviet History and Scoiety - Studies of the Harriman Institute). Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-8014-2420-8. 369 pages with several photos/illustrations. Documents the early pre-World War II history of the Russian Red Army. $27.50
[001430] Voronin, N. N.. The Architecture of Northern Russia (Zodchectvo Severo-Vostochnoi Russi): 12th - 15th Centuries - 2 Volume set . Moscow, Russia: Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1961. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Approx 575 pages each with numerous photos, illustrations and line drawings. Several fold-out line drawings of Russian churches. Illustrates the architecture found throughout northern Russia - emphasis on the church architecture. Russian text. $179.50
[003147] Williams, Robert C.. Russian Art and American Money, 1900-1940. Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good+ / Good. ISBN: 0-674-78122-8. 309pp/24 illustrations from photographs. Discusses the sale of Russian works of art to the United States, including works by contemporary artists and the Romanov art treasures. DJ chipped with several small pieces missing. $45.00
[000286] Wise, David. Molehunt : The Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the CIA. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1992. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0394585143. Book has 325 pages with a center section of b&w photographs. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. The incredible story of the Central Intelligence Agency's secret search for Soviet spies in its own ranks - a witch-hunt that destroyed the lives and careers of loyal agency officers, paralyzed the CIA around the globe at the height of the Cold War, and damaged U.S. counterspy operations to the present day. $19.50
[002129] Wittlin, Thaddeus. Commissar The Life and Death of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. New York: MacMillan, 1972. 1st Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good(-). 566 pages/photos, illustrated. Book in very good condition Biography of the late head of the Soviet Union's Secret Police, concentration camps, and spy networks, and second in power only to Stalin. $27.50
[001851] Wolff, Larry. The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the Partitions : Diplomatic and Cultural Encounters at the Warsaw Nunciature (East European Monographs, No. 245). Bradenton, FL, U.S.A.: Eastern European Monographs, 1988. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+ / No Jacket Issued. ISBN: 0880331429. 282 pages. Explores diplomatic and Cultural Encounters at the Warsaw Nunciature. $29.50
[002972] Wolkonsky, Catherine A. And Marianna A. Poltoratzky.. Handbook of Russian Roots (Columbia Slavic Studies). New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. xxvi + 414pp, dictionary, selected reference works. 1st ed. Reference work; 'a dictionary of literary, conversational and colloquial Russian as it has been written and spoken from the nineteenth century to the present. Presents over 500 of the most productive roots of the Russian language $34.50
[001561] Yefimov, Y.. Gatchina Arsenal . St Petersurg, Russia: Atlant Publishing House, 2001. 1st Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 5901555023. 208 pages. Large oversize illustated book. Russian and Engish. Illustrates with numerous color photos the various imperial weapons in the Gatchina Arsenal. $44.50
[000505] Zhukov, Georgi K.. Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 304 pages with several maps. Details Marshal Zhukov's four most critical victories - the Battle of Moscow, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk and Battle of Berlin. $19.50
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