Search Results: Soviet Union from House of Our Own Books

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 1978. Examines the scientific claims of Marxism, the development of communist theory and practice in the Soviet Union, and the phenomenon of Eurocommunism, concluding that Marxism is not a rational philosophy but a religion and predicting that the Soviet Union, as a multinational empire, is unlikely to survive for more than a few decades (dust jacket has large chip and small tears on edges, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

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.

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. This is a 1933 first edition of an account of the medical and public health administration in the Soviet Union, based on the authors' 9,000 mile tour of the country in 1932, supported by the Milbank Memorial Fund; Sir Arthur Newsholme was a public health authority and the chief medical officer for Britain's Local Government Board; John Adams Kingsbury was a public health advocate and New York City's Commissioner of Public Charities; includes 19 full-page black & white photographs, 8 by Margaret Bourke-White; a separate card in the book is inscribed to Louis J. Dublin, a statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and an expert on the causes of mortality, and signed by both authors (black cloth with black lettering on red spine label; end papers have Bourke-White photos; half-title page with Louis J. Dublin's signature and date of March, 1934, has some erasures and impression of paper clips that held… Read More

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. This is a collection of essays originally presented as papers at the Conference on Soviet Cinema held at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 1986, the first gathering of international Soviet cinema scholars to take place in the United States, with participants from France, Italy, Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States; this collection encompasses 70 years of Soviet cinema history from the perspective of 20 academics of different backgrounds and nationalities; includes illustrations (black & white cover with red & white lettering,, very faint spine crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1988. This is a critical study of the origins and content of Soviet international relations theory and the claims of Soviet policy makers and theorists that it is scientific because it is based on Marxist-Leninist theory (red & white pictorial covers, faint creases on spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Very Good.