Search Results: Social Sciences Quarterly (USSR/Russia) from Berthoff Books

Social Sciences, Nauka, 1996. Soft cover. Good. Issue #1 only, 192 pages. Periodical in thick paperback form, wraps in good condition with creases to front. Social Sciences was founded in 1970 as a quarterly of the USSR Academy of Sciences, shifting to the Russian Academy of Sciences after 1992. It contains English translations of articles and book reviews from a range of Russian journals in the social sciences. This issue contains articles on privatization, geopolitics, fascism, and Russia's relations with the West. Pages unmarked.

Social Sciences, Nauka, 1995. Soft cover. Good. Four issues, 192 pages each, periodical in thick paperback form, wraps in good condition with light creases and rubbing to some of the wraps. #2 has a notation on the front cover, #3 has two titles circled in the TOC. Social Sciences was founded in 1970 as a quarterly of the USSR Academy of Sciences, shifting to the Russian Academy of Sciences after 1992. It contains English translations of articles and book reviews from a range of Russian journals in the social sciences. This volume contains articles by academics who were pro-reform in the late Soviet period, including Leonid Abalkin and Nikita Moiseyev; #2 has articles on Dostoevsky and on Russian Cosmism. Shipping surcharge for four-volume set, depending on destination.

Social Sciences, Nauka, 1991. Soft cover. Very Good. 4-issue set, approx. 305 pages each, periodical in thick paperback form, wraps in good condition with coffee stain to front of #1, crease to bottom front corner of #2, chip to heel of #4. Volume XXII of Social Sciences was issued in the year in which the Soviet Union ceased to exist, but contains Mikhail Gorbachov's 1990 decree on reform of the Academy of Sciences. The quarterly contains English translations of articles and book reviews from a range of Soviet journals in the social sciences. No markings observed on pages. Shipping surcharge for four-volume set, depending on destination.

Social Sciences, Nauka, 1992. Soft cover. Good. Single volume, double issue, 272 pages, periodical in thick paperback form, wraps rubbed and creased, edges and pages age-toned. This double issue of Social Sciences was published in the first full year during which the Soviet Union no longer existed, but it went to press in August 1991. It still reads "USSR Academy of Sciences" on the masthead. A "Dear Reader" note from Editor-in-Chief L. Mitrokhin apologizes for "circumstances which do not depend upon us" such as "the economic crisis in this country," resulting in failure to mail out 1991 #4, and in production of this double issue. The quarterly contains English translations of articles and book reviews from a range of Soviet journals in the social sciences. This issue includes an article on the first Gulf War, and a round table of the USSR Union of Cinema Workers and the AS USSR Institute of Philosophy "Is Marxism Dead?" No markings observed on pages.

Social Sciences, Nauka, 1990. Soft cover. Very Good. 4-issue set, approx. 320 pages each, periodical in thick paperback form, wraps in very good condition with a couple of creases to corners and fraying to the heel of issue #2. Volume XXI of Social Sciences was issued in the last full year of existence of the Soviet Union. The quarterly contains English translations of articles and book reviews from a range of Soviet journals in the social sciences. Frequent topics are perestroika and "reform from above," by authors including Yevgeni Primakov, Ivan Frolov, Yulian Bromley, Oleg Bogomolov, Nikita Moiseyev. No markings observed on pages. Shipping surcharge for four-volume set, depending on destination.