Search Results: Soviet Union from Gary Menchen

Berkeley Medallion, 222pp. Wrappers. The Alliluyev's made the mistake of thinking that Stalin would appreciate these memoirs that included him in his early days; nearly all of his wife's family ended up being executed.

Scott, John. Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. Bloomington: Indiania University Press [1989]. xxv, 306p.Enlarged edition prepared by Stephen Kotkin, Wrappers, a little bit dogeared. Later printing. A first person acount by an American of five years as a worker devel0ping Magnitogorsk. First published in 1942. Introduction by Stephen Kotkin,

Chase, William J.Enemies within the Gates? The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939. New Haven: Yale University Press [c.1941]. xxi,514p.In Yale's Annals of Communism series. Prepared with the cooperation of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History. Russian documents translated by Vadim A. Staklo. "This book is about an extraordinary group of people at an extraordinary time caught up in a life and death struggle. The documents show bluntly and brutally how the Russian Revolution under Stalin ate its own children" - Ronald Grior Suny.

New York: W. W. Norton [2004]. 871pp. Clean solid copy.

Lawton, Anna. Kinoglasnost. Soviet Cinema in our Time. New York: Cambridge University Press [1992]. xvi, 288p.Wrappers; very good condition but old price stamp on front free endpaper. In the Cambridge Soviet Paperbacks series.

Undated, probably mid-sixties to mid-seventies. Russian and English, parallel texts, guide to the notable squares and areas of Leningrad - see photo for Nevsky Prospekt. Most sections have a drawn layout, a page with two columns of text (Russian, English) and then following pages with photographs. 64 pages total. Well-thumbed.

Petrov, Vladimir. My Life as a Slave Laborer in the Siberian Mines. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company [c.1949]. Hardcover, no dustjacket; top of spine badly pulled: see photo. An early account of the gulag.

London: George Allen & Unwin [ca. 1930]. 670pp. Red cloth, ex-Harvard University Business School/Baker Library. (They appear to be content with just on-line access). A treasure trove of information about the Soviet Union of the time: advertisements, statistics, tariffs, a who's who, fold-out map and charts, and so on.

Kopelev, Lev. To Be Preserved Forever.Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. [1977]. Translated and edited by Anthony Austin. Published and translated under the auspices of Ardis.Very good condition.