Search Results: History: Russia and Soviet Union from The Owl at the Bridge

Moskva, Nauka, 1964. Hard Cover. 517, [3] p., port.; 20.5 cm. Title continues: nauchnoi i pedigogicheskoi deiatel'nosti B. B. Kafengauza. [Otvetstvennyi redaktor N. M. Druzhinin]. Notes: "Spisok trudov B. B. Kafengauza i retsenzii na nikh": p. 508-[518]. Local government in Russia during the 17th and 18th Centuries. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,332. Vg / no dj.

Ediciones Ulises, Madrid [c1931]. Colección Nueva Politica. With a brief biography of the author by Marcial Retuerto. Secretary of Stalin's Politburo, the young Ukrainian Bajanov is believed by Michael Smith to have provided the British with verbatim transcripts of Politburo sessions in which Moscow's revolutionary plans were discussed. Exiled to Central Asia in 1927, Bajanov was living under official protection in France when this book was published. In his earlier book, "Avec Staline dans le Kremlin" (Paris, 1930), Bajanov states (p. 2/3), "Soldier of the anti-Bolshevik army, I had imposed upon myself the difficult and perilous task of penetrating right into the heart of the enemy headquarters. I had succeeded." Soft Cover. 186, xiii p., 4 facsimiles; 17.5 cm. Printed paper covers worn, pages darkened; ink owner name & stamp; good. Stock#38375.

N.Y., Columbia UP, 1956. Soft Cover. ix, 338 p. 21.5 cm. Contains the secret speech of Nikita Khrushchev: the "Cult of the Individual" February 25, 1956, and17 documents from Communist Party publicaions around the world reacting to the speech. Stock# 32,001x. Vg/ wrappers.

Moskva. Hard Cover. 399 p., 17 leaves of illus.; 20.5 cm. Series : Zhizn' zamechatel'nykh liudei. Seriia biografii, vyp. 1 (477). At head of title: N. Pirumova. Biography of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, 1814-1876, a history of Russian anarchism. Bibliography: p. 397-[398]. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,338. Vg, flimsy binding.

NY: Viking, 1998. Hard Cover. xii, 511 p., illus. (4 leaves color); 24 cm. "How did a country with such a tormented past bring such stunning works of art into being? To answer this question, W. Bruce Lincoln explores ten centuries of artistic endeavor in a land uniquely suspended between East and West, past and future sacred and secular. Surveying art in all its forms, Between Heaven and Hell tells the stories of Russia's greatest novelists, poets, painters, composers, dancers, architects." ISBN (10): 0670875686. Stock#47944. Vg / dj vg.

Leningrad: Nauka, Leningr. otd-nie, 1977. Hard Cover. 256 p.; 22 cm. On the historiography of 19th century Russia from a Soviet perspective. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,348. Vg / no dj.

Survey. - 28(2) Summer 1984. Periodical. offprint. Pages 34-69. 23 cm. "a society that is internally declining while it is externally expanding." Prof. Goodman, of Brown University, perceived the Soviet collapse. Stock# 45,153. Vg / offprint.

Boston, MA. : Christian Science Pub. Society, c1991.. Hard Cover. xxi, 234 p. : illus. (some col.) ; 27 cm. Edited by Richard E. Ralston ; with an introduction by Earl W. Foell. Articles also from the World Monitor. Stock# 43,661. Vg / dj good+, tear taped.

Berkeley, Univ CA Press, 1999.. Hard Cover. xxii, 352 p. 8 b/w illus. 7 tables. 24 cm. 'Viewing crime and punishment as contested metaphors about social order...a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and state in the decades leading up to World War I. Colonial Perspectives: Representations and Realities of Rural Crime and Justice -- 2. A Portraiture of Numbers: Rural Crime and Peasant Felons in the Judicial Statistics -- 3. Understandings of the Law: Property, Crime, and Justice through Peasant Eyes -- 4. The Hidden Realm of Rural Property Crime -- 5. From Insult to Homicide: Honor, Violence, and Crimes against Persons -- 6. Questions of Belief: "Superstition," Crime, and the Law -- 7. Varieties of Punishment: Between Court and Administrative Authority -- 8. Unofficial Justice in the Village -- 9. Savages at the Gates: Bandits, Hooligans, and the Last Crime Wave.' Stock #101,231. Vg/ dj vg. Russia Social History

Moskva: Gosizdat, 1926.. Hard Cover. iv, 483 p., 23.5 cm. A history of the Decembrists, the officers's uprising of 1826. At head of title: Tsentrarkhiv. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard) Stock#43,349. Vg, original paper wrappers bound in blue cloth.

Berlin, Leipzig, Nibelungen-Verlag, 1943. Soft Cover. 680 p., 110 illus., ports.; 20 cm. "The betrayed socialism. Ten years as a high government official in the Soviet Union." First published 1938, this portrayal of the betrayed socialism by a German manager of a Soviet timber operation was standard Nazi propaganda; this is the 14th edition. Stock#45967. Good+, corners worn / soft cover

Ithaca, NY, Cornell UP [c1994]. Soft Cover. x, 266 p., index, illus., 23 cm. 'The Domostroi regulates the moral and civil obligations, the family relationships, and the physical needs of a large and varied household. ...opens a window on a world that-- culturally, socially, even physically-- has long since vanished' and 'depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute subordination of the individual to the family and the state. Specific instructions tell how to arrange hay, visit monasterie, distill vodka, treat servants, entertain clergy, cut out robes, and carry out many other daily activities. ...Pouncy here offers, with an informative introduction, the first complete English translation.' Stock# 30551. Vg, color pictorial paper covers.

Moskva : Gos. izd-vo polit. lit-ry, 1956.. Hard Cover. 476, [4] p. : maps (1 folded) ; indexes, 20.5 cm. A study of such cities and towns as existed in medieval Russia. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,324. Vg/ no dj.

Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1955. Hard Cover. Two volumes: 483; 507 p., 26.5 cm. At head of title: Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut istorii.

London, Heineman, 1992. Hard Cover. 542 pages, 16 pages of plates, illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; index; 25 cm. An historical outline of Sioberia from the first crossing of the Ural Mountains by an outlaw band of Cossacks in 1581 to the present. A vast landmass with the richest mineral resources on earth. Bibliograpy, pages [499]-516. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock#25835/h.

Moskva: Gospolitizdat, 1950. Hard Cover. 551 p.; 22 cm. Economic conditions in Russia, 1800-1917. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard) Stock# 43,317. Vg / no dj.

Moskva, Nauka, 1967. Hard Cover. 535 p. 22 cm. At head of title: Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut ekonomiki. P. A Khromov. Russian Economic conditions.during the Tsarist era. In Cyrillic Russian. Stock# 43,318. Vg / dj good+.

Ediciones Estela, México D.F. [196-?]. Soft Cover. Tradujo del inglés Odon Duran d'Ocon. 173, [1] p., 19 cm. The Soviet Myth in the Face of Reality. "Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, critic, Koestler's novel Darkness at Noon (1940) reflects his break with the Communist Party and his ideological rebirth. From 1937 Koestler was a main representative of those politically active European authors who attacked Soviet totalitarianism during the early period of the Cold War." (source: Books & Writers website). Printed brown wraps; ink scrawl on front cover; unopened; good. 39351.

Moskva, Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSR, 1960. Hard Cover. 578, [2] p.; 22.5 cm. The collapse of the Russian financial system confronted by the enormous cost of conducting a great war has significance even for non-Marxists. At head of title: Akademiia nauk SSSR. Bibliographical footnotes. Errata leaf at end. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,259. Vg / no dj.

Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, ©1999. Hard Cover. xviii, 427 p., [16] p. of plates, illus., maps; 24.5 cm. Recounts the story of Russia's last imperial dynasty, from the youth of the future Tsar Alexander III to the death of his daughter Olga Alexandrovna, the last grand-duchess, in 1960. Stock#46252. Fine / dj fine.