Search Results: History - Russia from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter dark blue cloth with blue paper covered boards, gilt initials stamped in front board, stabbed, viii, 378, [4] pp, index. Light edge wear to boards & spine, boards just peeking through fragile paper corners, boards slightly faded near edges, light soiling to top and bottom edges, with a few small spots in otherwise clean interior, loose half title and preliminary blank reattached with PVA. DJ browned & lightly rubbed about edges; in Brodart archival cover. From DJ: "In April 1978, Arkady Shevchenko--United Nations Under Secretary General and former adviser to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko--shocked the world diplomatic community by seeking refuge in the United States. ... Breaking with Moscow reveals the reasons behind Shevchenko's action." Despite his reputation as a hard-liner, Shevchenko came to detest the regime he was a part of. After approaching… Read More

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xii, 372 pp, 40 b & w photos, 10 maps, statistical tables, notes, bibliography, index. DJ has a 4 mm chip to bottom of rear panel, slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Examines the growth and social history from 1860 to 1917 of eight cities in the Russian Empire--Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Warsaw, Riga, Odessa, Tiflis, and Baku. Contributors are the editor, Joseph Bradley, James H. Bater, Stephen D. Corrsin, Anders Henriksson, Frederick W. Skinner, Ronald Grigor Suny, Audrey Altstadt-Mirhadi, and Daniel R. Brower. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Viking, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter white linen with red paper-covered boards, xi, 450 pp, notes, index. Corners bumped, light bumps to edges of boards, faint watermark on top edge of rear board, ownership stamp on fpd. DJ slightly worn at extremities with a red stain on back of rear panel at top edge (barely visible on printed side); in Brodart archival cover. 'Dusko Doder ran The Washington Post's Moscow bureau during the "revolving door" years at the Kremlin when Brezhnev died and, in the space of thirty months, was succeeded by Andropov, Chernenko, and finally Gorbachev. Doder and Branson watched Gorbachev as the young leader from Stavropol became Andropov's protégé and rose, with stunning but calculated speed, through the ranks of the Moscow machine. Their view of Gorbachev is illuminated by an intimacy with the highest-ranking members of the Soviet Communist Party and with colleagues… Read More

St. Paul: Merrill/Magnus Publishing Corporation, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author recto ffep. Dark grey cloth, gilt titles on spine, ix, 317 pp, notes, glossary, index. DJ has slight edge wear and a small tear (under 1 cm) to top of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Ioffe was a Soviet lawyer who emigrated to the United States in 1981. According to the DJ, "Ioffe explains how the Soviet economic system works. And he reveals why, despite Western enthusiasm, Gorbachev's economic reforms are unfortunately but inevitably doomed by the realities of that system." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York: Times Books (Random House), 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue boards, navy cloth spine, gilt titles on spine & monogram on front board, xv, 672 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, index. Edges soiled, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Political memoirs of the long-serving Soviet ambassador. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, gilt titles on spine, [viii], 198 pp, 8 ff b & w plates, footnotes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive analysis of the political culture of the Russian Revolution. [The authors] examine the diverse ways that language and other symbols--including flags and emblems, public rituals, songs, and codes of dress--were used to identify competing sides and to create new meanings in the political struggles of 1917." Contents: the desacralization of the monarchy; the symbolic revolution; cult of the leader; languages of citizenship & class; language of the revolution in the village; images of the enemy. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burgundy cloth, gilt titles on spine, xvii, 224 pp, 6 ff b & w photo plates, notes, index. Fore-edge lightly bumped, else fine. DJ has crease on rear flap, original price clipped and replaced by sticker with publisher's increased price. From the DJ: "This remarkable book tells the story of ... the forcible repatriation of over two million Soviet men, women, and children who found themselves in Allied hands in Europe in 1944-47. ... Some of the victims had openly fought on the German side, but the majority were simply prisoners of war who had collaborated as little as possible. Some had not lived in Russia since the Revolution...." From interviews with eyewitnesses as well as newly available government documents. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, red titles on spine, [vii], 269, [1] pp. Extremities rubbed. DJ has two 2 cm tears, other small chips & tears; in Brodart archival cover. The author, Russian-born wife of American journalist Louis Fischer and herself a gifted translator and interpreter, writes about her personal experiences living in the Soviet Union during 1921 and 1927-39. As a personal memoir, it hardly mentions the disastrous famines first under Lenin and in the 1930s under Stalin. However, while impressed by attempts at improving health care and housing, and providing mass education for the first time in Russian history, she was not blind to the crimes and absurdities of Communist government, and particularly its frequent reversals of policy and criminalization of those who had most loyally implemented the previous party line. It is especially enlightening for its view of everyday… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter maroon cloth, dusty rose cloth-covered boards, foil titles on spine, xiii, 301, [2] pp, notes, index. Book appears to have been the victim of one spill, leaving splotches on front board where DJ adhered to it, and slight cockling with faint water marks to bottom corner of fore-edge, else fine. DJ is also water-marked on front panel & flap (visible mainly on reverse), with a 1 X 2 cm chip to top of rear panel, else VG; in Brodart archival cover. Contents: theoretical foundations of literary controls; heyday of Zhdanovism, 1946-1952; quest for a middle way, 1953-1955; the challenge of 1956; drive for 'consolidation,' 1957-1959; bureacratic controls and literary production; perspectives and prospects. From the DJ: "A recurrent problem plagues the Soviet government. A period of severe censorship produces dullness and stagnation in literature, defeating… Read More

Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pumpkin-colored cloth, black titles on spine, xii, 468 pp, 2 maps, 3 ff b & w photo plates, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. DJ has a 1 cm tear at head of front joint, slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. While concentrating on one province, the authors examine issues and events that were typical of Russia as a whole. Contributors in addition to the editors are James G. Hart, Alan Kimball, Pamela Sears McKinsey, Michael Melancon, James W. Long, Thomas Fallows, Timothy R. Mixter, Grigorii Alekseevich Gerasimenko, Donald J. Raleigh, & Allan K. Wildman. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gilt titles on spine, xv, 398, [2] pp, note on sources, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Remnick, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Lenin's Tomb: The Last Day of the Soviet Empire, writes about Russian politics from December 1991 to Boris Yeltsin's reelection as president in 1996. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24½ X 17 cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, foil titles on grey cloth spine, red endpapers, 542 pp including 14 pp of b & w photos, notes, bibliography, index. Front hinge cracked, faint stain to fore-edge. DJ has tiny tears & creasing to head of spine; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "De Jonge's mother is Russian and he was raised speaking the language. He has drawn extensively on on Soviet contacts, memoirs, archival material and the recollections of recent Soviet emigres to give a remarkable and unique look at how the USSR was born and what it was like to live there during the Stalin Age. He has also discovered some startling new information, including documentation of a pro-Soviet bias in the British Foreign office during and after World War II.... One cannot understand the world today without understanding Stalin." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2… Read More

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth, titles in black on red paper labels on front board & spine, xi, 376 pp. Spine darkened, spine label faded to orange, corners bumped, head of spine has about a 1 cm tear. White spent several years in Russia during which time he interviewed many Russians from varied walks of life in Moscow and the provinces; he published his impressions in this volume. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . G/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York & Evanston: Harper & Row, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. Mustard cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, dec. mustard endpapers, [ix], 246 pp, frontispiece, notes. DJ spine somewhat faded, slight rubbing to corners & head of spine; in Brodart archival cover. A few clippings about Svetlana are laid in. Josef Stalin's daughter writes about her youth, her mother's suicide, and her loving nurse, to whom she owed her sanity despite growing up in the household of one of the most tyrannical despots of the 20th Century. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 20 X 15 cm.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Ian Boland, introduction by Heinrich Böll. Quarter green cloth, drab paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, xxi, 423 pp. Spine slightly cocked, light edge wear, small abrasion on front endpapers, pencil notes scattered throughout. DJ has a few ½-cm tears, slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. This is the second volume of Ginzburg's autobiography. In Vol. 1, published in English as "Journey into the Whirlwind," Ginzburg recounted the events leading to her 1937 arrest in Stalin's purges. Vol. 2 deals with her 18 years in Stalin's prisons. According to the DJ, "Ginzburg was repeatedly snatched from extinction by assignments to inside work in hospitals, nurseries, kitchens, farms, all of which, with their hapless inmates and all-powerful supervisors, she describes in vivid, fascinating detail, never losing her keen… Read More