Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 457 pages, hardcover. Green cloth covers have some edge wear at the top and bottom of the spine, but are still in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This scarcely available book is devoted to the third force in the Russian Revolution, the Green--or peasant--resistance movement, which began in the Ukraine, spread to Great Russia, and eventually attained the proportions of a second civil war. Previous owner's initials have been engraved on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34038
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is mildly bumped. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. Historian Lynne Viola reveals how, in one of the most egregious episodes of Soviet repression, Stalin drove two million peasants into internal exile, to work as forced laborers. The book shows how entire families were callously thrown out of their homes, banished from their villages, and sent to the icy hinterlands of the Soviet Union, where in the course of a decade, almost a half million would die as a result of disease, starvation, or exhaustion. Light pencil underlining present on some pages. Record # 33911
Hardcover. London, Readex Microprint, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, hardcover. Covers are significantly bumped near the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright, and the binding is solid. This is a reprint of an 1868 book, with original B&W illustrations throughout. In 1864, the Russian government granted permission to the Western Union Telegraph Company to make a survey for a possible telegraph line extending from British Columbia through what was then called Russian America (Alaska)... One of the participants was Frederick Whymper, a young English adventurer, writer, and artist, who joined the expedition and wrote Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, one of the earliest and best accounts of Alaska during the transition from a Russian to an American possession. Previous owner wrote two short notes on the inside back cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33785