Dawn over Samarkand: The Rebirth of Central Asia
by Kunitz, Joshua
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling and discoloration.
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About This Item
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1935. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling and discoloration.. [2], 348, [2] p. Endpaper map. The author was a scholar and writer on Soviet life and culture. Columbia University A.M., 1925, Ph.D., 1928. Joshua Kunitz was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25-27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25-28, 1948.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69899
- Title
- Dawn over Samarkand: The Rebirth of Central Asia
- Author
- Kunitz, Joshua
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling and discoloration.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed first edition/first printing
- Publisher
- Covici Friede Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Tajikistan; Uzbekistan; Kirghiz; Turcmanistan; Kara Kalpak; Samarkand; Bolshevik; Bokhara; Basmachi; Socialization; Dushambe; Ibrahim Bek;
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