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Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. This is a collection of essays by the author of the standard biography of Plekhanov, the preeminent theoretician of prerevolutionary Marxsism in Russia, whose works were relegated to virtual oblivion during the Stalinist era; these essays explore Plekhanov's place in the history of the Russian revolutionary movement and his differences with Lenin, Stalin and later Soviet ideologues (green covers with gold lettering on spine; green dust jacket with white & orange lettering, photo of Plekhanov on the front; front cover has very slight edge wear, repaired edge tear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Hoover Institution Press, 1993 This book provides an introduction to the spectrum of Russian political parties, movements, and personalities by combining interpretive essays with interviews and documents; the authors, from Stanford University and Moscow State University, interviewed anti-communist leaders and collected the documents of anti-communist parties in the months preceding and immediately following the August 1991 attempted coup d'etat; they also talked to pro-communist leaders who emerged to oppose Gorbachev's reforms, as well as leaders of nationalist movements, labor unions, Christian movements, and organizations opposed to the division of the Soviet Union (red cloth with gold lettering, one corner slightly bumped; red & black pictorial dust jacket with photo of a Moscow rally of democratic forces in 1990, spine slightly sunned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.