Hardcover. Salem House Pub, 1st Am, June 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 218 pages. Light edge wear, wrinkling to dust jacket. Else clean and tight. Record # 453587
Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries-surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda-turned joke-telling into an art form, using them as a coded way of speaking the truth and coping with the absurdity of the system. In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the Communist era. 25+ B&W illustrations throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33934
Softcover. University of California Press, 3rd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Some wear to edges. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453423
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 656 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with light shelf wear and bumping to the top edge. Tan cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is is a political, social, and economic history of Russia. It centers on the evolving relationships between landowners and peasants, and how that relationship impacted the politics and economic conditions inside Russia. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34128
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book examines the Russian working class during the Russian revolution, illustrating the importance of social history for an understanding of the diversities and complexities as well as the rationality of the revolution. Clean copy. Record # 33980
Softcover. Malden MA, Polity, 5th Pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 652 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Very minor brown stain present on the outside edge of some pages. B&W photography throughout. In this compelling book, renowned historian Karl Schlogel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the 'Great Terror,' during which 1.5 million human beings lost their lives in a single year. He consults numerous sources from the time, providing a masterful panorama of key events in Russian history. This rich and absorbing account of the Soviet purges will be essential reading for all students of Russia and for any readers interested in one of the most dramatic and disturbing events of modern history. Clean copy. Record # 33977
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 282 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket shows some edge wear along the top and bottom, but is still in good condition. Orange cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. B&W photography, maps, and tables are present throughout. This book is shows how the massive peasant migration to Russian cities-an influx unprecedented in world history-had major consequences for the nature of the Soviet system and the character of Russian society even today. Light pencil markings by previous owner are present throughout, and their name is inscribed on the last page of the bibliography. Record # 33974
Softcover. New York, Longman Publishers, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, b & w maps and charts, 1st printing of revised edition, very clean, tight copy. Record # 800543
Softcover. New York , Viking Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 570 pages. Wear and rubbing to wrappers. Internally very neat, tight, clean. Record # 607907
Softcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages. Underlining in ink to a handful pages, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 459436
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, 484 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. One of the keys lies in messianism, the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people." The communists reshaped this notion into messianic socialism, in which the Soviet order would lead the world in a new direction. Neither vision, however, fit the "community spirit" of the Russian people, and the resulting clash defined the Soviet world. Light underlining in pencil present throughout. Record # 33909
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 489 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is chipped and worn, and the spine has been sunned. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains bind-in with B&W photography. This book examines the Russian revolution of February 1917, also known as the 'liberal' revolution. Long overshadowed by the Bolshevik revolution, this book presents important features of the Russian political scene post WWI. Previous owner's name is present on first front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33908
Softcover. Harlow, England, Pearson Education Limited, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. The story of Russia's First World War remains largely unknown, neglected by historians who have been more interested in the grand drama that unfolded in 1917. This book shows that war is itself revolutionary in that it ruptures established social and economic ties, but also creates new social and economic relationships, affiliations, practices and opportunities. Clean copy. Record # 33976
Softcover. Lemington Spa, UK ; New York, Berg Publishers, reprint, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Underlining in ink to pages 21-23. Clean, tight copy. Record # 459433
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 220 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with several open tears concentrated along the top edge. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains graphs and tables throughout. This book examines how, to the peasant in imperial Russia, death and disease were far more potent forces than czar or landlord. Although the legal and economic history of serfdom has received widespread scholarly attention, the social aspects of serf life have been ignored. Hoch fills this gap with his research on the estate of the Gagarin noble family in Petrovskoe. This is an ex-library book, with the standard exterior markings, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33983
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 3rd Pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Minor bumping to bottom corners. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book meticulously surveys the process by which the Bolsheviks attempted to mold the minds of their people, and then examines the results thereof. Clean copy. Record # 33971
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 438 pages. Softcover. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Some creasing to several pages, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 469253
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