Search Results: History: Russia from The Owl at the Bridge

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.

New York, Harper Torchbook, [1966, c1951]. Soft Cover. viii, 146 p. 20.5 cm. "Note on sources": p. 138-141. Stock# 39,918. Good+/ paper.

Vernadsky updated his history to reflect changing situations and attitudes, presumably based on his revised lectures at Yale. His observations are always interesting. This third edition takes into account the Soviet / Russian experience in World War II and the early years of the Cold War. ix, [2], 533 pages, 3 maps, 21 cm. Owner name on front fly. Stock#48161 [biblio2].

Provides "a brief and general survey of the material of Russian history" from "the western corner of Eurasia as the cradle of the Russian state" through the end of World War II. ix, 533 p., 3 maps; bibliography, pages 501-512; 21 cm. Bound in tan cloth, spine stamped in black; minor wear; good+. Stock#48161.

N.Y., Norton, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. x, 462 p., illus., 24 cm. An engineering officer who held division field command in World War II, Grigorenko became a dissident, and then exile in the U.S. Stock# 31,782. Vg/ dj good+.

Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Books, [1930]. Hard Cover. vii, 386 p. illus. plates, ports., facsim. Cheap reprint of the Viking Press, 1928 edition. The Russian priest Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, (ca.1870-1916) and his influence in the court of Tsar Nicholas II (1894-1917) had tragic results for him, the royal family, for Russia, and the world. Yet he was a magnetic and compelling figure the subject of books and film. Stock #100,957. Good/no dj. Russian Soviet History

NY, Macmillan Collier; London, Macmillan [1966]. Soft Cover. vii, 136 p.; 21 cm. Series: Main Themes in European History. Eleven stimulating essays, Zagorin & Hill on the English, Palmer & Lefebvre on the French, Berlin on Russia and 1848, and Carr on Russia in 1918 amongst others. Used in a class I taught at Brown, it generated good discussion. Stock#47712. Good+ / soft cover.

New York, Time, inc., c1961.. Hard Cover. 176 p. illus. (part col.) ports., col. maps (on lining papers) 28 cm. Series: Life World Library. Stock# 40,263.. Vg, illustrated boards.

Irvine, CA, , Russian History / Histoire Russe, 1983. Periodical. [iv], 138 p., 24 cm. Contains three articles on 1.) Soviet, 2.) Jewish, and 3) on Batu in medieval history. Pollard. Stock# 42,407. Vg / journal.

NY, Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., ©1976. Hard Cover. xi, 527 p.; 24 cm. The head of the New York Times Moscow bureau, Smith conveys "to readers the human quotient, the texture and fabric of the personal lives of the Russians as people." ISBN (10): 0812905210. Stock#46948. Good+ /Book club /no dj.

Modern Library [copyright 1935]. Hard Cover. xxiv, 371 p. Reed reported on events in Russia and was caught up in the October 1917 Revolution. His enthusiasm for Bolsheviks and the Communist cause grew; he died covering the fighting of the Red Army. Stock#25003. Vg/ no dj.

N.Y., Doubleday/ Anchor, 1953. Soft Cover. 4 p.l., 502 p. 18 cm. The revolutionary tradition in Europe and the rise of Socialism. From Vico, Saint-Simon, Taine, Michelet, and Fournier to Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky. Stock# 29,909x. Vg / soft cover

Philadelphia, Lippincott [1964]. Soft Cover. 242 p., index; 20.5 cm. Vg/ paper covers slightly soiled. 10th Printing. 'The significance of the Russian Revolution does not lie in the Bolshevik victory but in the struggle for modernization in politics and industrial production, the need to take pride in native achievement, and the desire to replace the West as a model for emerging nations.' Published at a time when ideological models dominated politics in the US, this was a sane and useful analysis. Academic paperback. Stock #28,467. Vg.