Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, hardcover. Drawing on recently declassified material from Stalin's personal archives, comes this analysis on the way Stalin interpreted and envisioned his world. Mild rubbing to boards. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London ; New York, Arnold Publishers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 357 pages. Some shelf-wear to covers, slight crease to spine, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 2nd printing, September 23, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 700 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Times Books, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 380 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Some foxing and edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boulder CO, Westview Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A tracing of the roots and achievements of Stalinism. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Slight cocking to front panel. Light fading to dust jacket, mostly to spine. Light age toning to text block edges. Scarce. A clean copy.
Softcover. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages. Minor edgewear top stiff wrappers. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. University of Illinois Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Light sunning to spine and part of front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 934 pages. B&w photos. Some edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket, slight wrinkle to upper edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 452 pages. Hardcover. Minor spotting to top edge. Minor fading to covers. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Columbia Univ. Press, Revised Ed. Wraps, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. A selection of documents edited by the Russian Institute. Grey wrappers with light wear and soil. Internally very good. Record # 55058
Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, Revised Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is a vividly rendered history of the circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire. No other book in any language links the history of this colonized non-Russian people to the full sweep of Russian intellectual and cultural history. Slezkine reconstructs from a vast range of sources the successive official policies and prevailing attitudes toward the northern peoples, interweaving the resonant narratives of Russian and indigenous contemporaries with the extravagant images of popular Russian fiction. Clean copy. Record # 34026
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 3rd Pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Clean copy. Record # 33968
Softcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world, the building of capitalism in Russia. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks, companies, stock exchanges, new laws and law courts. It analyzes the role of the Mafia, the new financial empires, entrepreneurs, business tycoons, and the shrinking Russian state. Thane Gustafson tells how the Soviet system was dismantled and the new market society was born, and examines the prospects for a Russian economic miracle in the twenty-first century. Clean copy. Record # 33979
Hardcover. New York , Philosophical Library, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages, two fold-out maps. Minor shelf-wear to tan boards, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 854636
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is bumped at the spine, but still in good condition. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. Light underlining in pencil is present on some pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33930