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 In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the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
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 312 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in poor condition with multiple open tears. Cloth covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Top edge of the pages colored green. This book covers the story of the sea otter hunters, and the hundred-year rule of the Russians on the Northwest Coast of America. It is a saga of one of primitive man's most rigorous conquests of nature, combined with one of the most ruthless eras of human subjugation, cruelty, and rapine in frontier history. Title page is inscribed with a dedication by the previous owner, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33787
Hardcover. DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Covers are very lightly bumped at the top corner. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This groundbreaking book is the first to study the cultural history of advertising in imperial Russia. The emergence of Russian advertising and consumer culture played a formative role in unsettling traditional tsarist society by promoting the aspirations of self-fulfillment through consumption. West's original study will appeal to scholars and students of advertising and Russian history, as well as those working in gender studies, folklore, and cultural history. Previous owner underlined some text throughout. Record # 33969
Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. Record # 607335
Softcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelf-wear to wrappers. Record # 458238
Softcover. New York, Schocken, reprint, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in one. 210+213 pages. Light wear, creasing and sun-fade to wrappers. Underlining in blue ink to a handful pages. Nice readingcopy. Record # 459457
Hardcover. New York, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 232 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a repaired cut, bumped corners, and worn edges. Black cloth covers are in good condition with only minor wear to the corners and edges. Interior pages are clean and bright, with the top edge colored blue. Binding is solid. Contains B&W maps and tables throughout. Contains a laid-in review slip. In this study, McCauley has examined the economic and political record of the virgin lands from 1953-1964. The decision to expand eastward is put into the historical perspective of earlier excursions into the steppe. The impact of Khrushchev's venture on subsequent Soviet agricultural policy is explored. Previous owner underlined some text in brown pen on the last few pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34493
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains bind-in with B&W photography. This book details how, in 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists, and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their families away to what would become permanent exile in Berlin, Prague and Paris. Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of this chilling historical moment, evoked with immediacy through the journals, letters, and memoirs of the exiles. Clean copy. Record # 33984
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. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages. Light sunning to spine, no dust jacket present. Clean, tight copy. Record # 105921
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
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 415 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with significant bumping to the top edge. Gray cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this book, Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Traumatic upheavals--war, economic collapse, famine--transformed local society and brought new groups to positions of power and authority in Central Asia, just as the new revolutionary state began to create new institutions that redefined the nature of power in the region. Previous owner lightly marked a couple interior pages in pencil throughout, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34140
Hardcover. London, Pearson Longman, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains maps and archival B&W photographs throughout. This book emphasizes Zhukov's leadership on the field, detailing such epic battles as Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin. Nobody was more decorated than Zhukov. This book also explores Zhukov's volatile relationship with Stalin and discusses his achievements and various appointments throughout the war. So why did one of the greatest military commanders of the twentieth century end his life in obscurity? This book holds the answers. Clean copy. Record # 33982
Softcover. London, The Cresset Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Paperback. Some tanning to covers and foxing to pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468262
hardcover. New York, W. Morrow, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468950
Hardcover. US, Villard, 1st, 1997-07-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 466421
Minneapolis, MN, Control Data Arts, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 166 pages. Contains some color photography of artifacts. Dust jacket with small tear, light rubbing. Record # 508003
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
Softcover. University of Washington Press/Smithsonian Institution , 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Introduction by W. Bruce Lincoln. Exhibition catalogue. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Red endpapers. Color pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, very good. Record # 512587
Hardcover. London, Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 328 pages, b&w plates. Red top edge. Yellowing, light edge wear to dust jacket. Small stamp on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 453352
Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Light foxing to page edges. Binding is solid. This book is a biography of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the most eminent leaders and theoreticians of the Bolsheviks. He was idolized by the youth of Soviet Russia, who identified with him and drew much of their inspiration from his writings. Prominent among the organizers of the revolution, he served for twenty years on the Central Committee and for ten years as a member of the Politburo. Though he and Lenin often disagreed, Lenin referred to him in his Testament as "deservedly the favorite of the Party." Clean copy. Record # 33981
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