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Wesley, John; Russie, Alice
Renew My Heart: Daily Devotions from the Works of John Wesley
Barbour Publishing 2021. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Barbour Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : G1643527940I4N00 ISBN : 1643527940 9781643527949
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GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER OF RUSSIA
Once a Grand Duke
Cassell and Company 1932. FIRST EDITION REBOUND; octavo blue faux leather boards 384pp VG light tanning and foxing within prev. owner's details in pen to title - tidy rebind Cassell and Company 1932 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 275495
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Russie Lane
Snow Angels on the Moon
Maine Authors Publishing 2019. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Maine Authors Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : G1633811972I3N10 ISBN : 1633811972 9781633811973
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[Russia; Maxim Gorky]
Soviet Real Photo post cards total 10
Russia 1937. Ten b&w RPPCs showing mostly scenes of Moscow and 1 of Maxim Gorky seated with children. Locations include: the former St. Basil Cathedral The Kremlin Tsar Bell 2 The Kremlin in Winter 2 one of the cathedral in St. Petersbourg several other Moscow scenes. One card showing the Russian building at the Exposition International in Paris 1937. Citadelle et la Cathedrale des Sts Pierre et Paul St. Petersourg Stengel & Co Dresden fullback postcard. <br /> Two rppc's have writing the rest blank or copyrighted in 1931. A traveler addresses two cards to the Beach family in New York City one franked in 1933 enjoying his tour of Russia in four days. The other card has an image of the Exposition Internationale Paris 1937 and writes on the verso: "We've been to the exhibition - disappointing very unready and uninteresting as yet. The German & Russian Buildings complete. Expressive of each nation as to size. They frighten me. We are off to Switzerland tomorrow and pleased to go."<br /> <br /> All in very good condition. unknown
Bookseller reference : 29282
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Nicholas Valentine Russia
A History of
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Bookseller reference : UY-B1EO-L8KF ISBN : 0195033612 9780195033618
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Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia Suzanne Massie Massie
Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia Suzanne
New. unknown
Bookseller reference : AN-PUHF-009W ISBN : 0671230514 9780671230517
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[RUSSIA] [TSARIST] "STEPNIAK" [pseud: STEPNYAK-KRAVCHINSKY, Sergey Mikhaylovich]
The Russian Peasantry: Their Agrarian Condition Social Life and Religion with Three ALS to Sonnenschein Regarding Publication
New York: Harper and Brothers 1888. First Edition. Octavo. 17.5cm. Publisher's green pebble grain cloth titled in gilt to spine. vi; 1; 401pp.6pp. ads to rear. Light rubbing to corners slight scuffing and some minor bumping to spine ends with a small spot stain at the very head of the spine small dent to upper edges of the boards; internally clean with some superficial soiling to the page edges ownership of Pennsylvania historian Gertrude Bosler Biddle to front flyleaf. A very good clean and handsome copy.<br /> <br /> WITH<br /> <br /> London: 1890-93. Three ALS autograph letters signed on folded stationery sheets as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. Dated "March 31" without year; from context ca. 1888-1890. 2pp ca. 250 words in black ink; datemarked St. John's Wood March 31. Requesting the publisher's permission to commission a German translation of his Russian Peasantry which first appeared in 1888 with a second edition in 1890. Stepniak proposes 50/50 division of royalties and identifies the translator as Victor Adler who has just been sentenced to three months in prison and thus now has "ample leisure" for undertaking the translation. Adler 1852-1918 was founder and first chairman of the Austrian Socialist Democratic Workers Party in 1888. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Near Fine. <br /> <br /> 2. Dated November 6 1890. 1pp ca. 75 words in blue ink. Declines a request from his publisher to undertake a book on the Jewish Question: ".it is impossible for me to write upon any question upon Jews or anything else for I am quite full with preparing a series of American lectures." Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Slight smudging final two lines and left margin not affecting legibility. Very Good. <br /> <br /> 3. Dated May 15 1893. 2pp ca. 120 words in black ink. Addressed to "Dear Mrs i.e. messieurs Sonnenschein" accepting an invitation to visit but stating he cannot arrive early. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Light soil; Near FIne. <br /> <br /> Sergei Stepniak aka Sergius; aka Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinskii 1851-1895 made his revolutionary bones during the Narodnik Rebellion of 1877-78 by openly assassinating Nikolai Mezentsov the head of the Czar's secret police on the streets of St. Petersburg. Kravchinskii committed the act in broad daylight and made no attempt to disavow his guilt living publicly if dangerously for several months before finally escaping to Switzerland. He arrived in London around 1880 and quickly became the center of a lively Russian revolutionary exile scene. He founded the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in 1891 and wrote a number of well-received books on revolutionary Russia including Underground Russia which had in fact been published in translation prior to his exile The Russian Peasantry 1888; and a fictionalized account of his own exploits The Career of a Nihilist 1889. He was killed somewhat mysteriously we think by an onrushing train in December of 1895 depriving him of any opportunity to witness the fruit of his labors in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Dying young Stepniak did not leave a great body of manuscript material behind him and relatively few letters with good content have appeared in commerce. Harper and Brothers unknown
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[PRE-REVOLUTONARY RUSSIA] ROBINSON, Geroid Tanquary
Rural Russia Under The Old Regime; A History of The Landlord-Peasant World a Prologue to the Peasant Revolution of 1917
New York: Macmillan 1949. Second Printing. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's slate grey cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. ix; 342pp. Lightly sunned to spine with some light bumping and fading to the extremities; internally clean with a name and military ID number stamped on the top-edge of the page block and another numerical stamp to the bottom edge; in a priceclipped dustjacket with shalow fraying and chipping to the spine ends and extremities some light soiling to the pale paper and toning to the spine panel. A very good copy in a dustjacket that has seen some use.<br /> <br /> An extremely readable history of the social hierarchies and structures of Russia prior to the Revlution and the manner in which a nation deals with the overturning of all that it held familiar and enduring. Macmillan unknown
Bookseller reference : 84391
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[RUSSIA] [PRISONS] ROUSSET, David
Police-State Methods in The Soviet Union
Boston MA: The Beacon Press 1953. First American Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over illustrated paper covered boards. 64pp. Light wear to corners and spine ends some discoloration of the paper covered boards in places; internally clean. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> Translated from French and published as part of the "Beacon Studies in Soviet Tyranny and Power" series providing an overview of the activities and strategies of the NKVD as it was then the practices of mass deportation to gulags and work camps with associated data and statistics. The Beacon Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 84405
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[RUSSIA] [MILITARIA] LEITES, Nathan
Soviet Style in War
New York: Crane Russak 1982. First Thus. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. xxvi; 398pp. Light bumping to spine ends some very light wear to the extremities of the cloth; internally clean; in a clean sharp example of the dustjacket. A near fine copy.<br /> <br /> A study produced under the auspices of the RAND Corporation a military adjacent think-tank and research institution originally created to research and protect against future methods of warfare but later expanding into the civilian sector. Coinciding with the opening of Soviet hostilities against Afghanistan but working from a body of knowledge accumulated since the end of WW2 and the commencement of the Cold War this is an attempt to predict and understand Soviet military and strategic thinking and behavior in time of conflict. Crane Russak unknown
Bookseller reference : 84404
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[RUSSIA] MOLOTOV, V[yatchislav].M.
Problems of Foreign Policy; Speeches and Statements April 1945 - November 1948
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1949. First Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Original dark blue cloth titled in white and light blue to spine and front board. 611pp. Some wear and bumping to spine ends and extremities darkening to spine panel; internally clean. A very good solid copy with some cosmetic wear. <br /> <br /> A chronological presentation of Molotov's speeches immediately post-WW2 including pieces dealing with the annexation of Estonia and Molotov's belief in the institution of what came to be called "The Iron Curtain. Foreign Languages Publishing House unknown
Bookseller reference : 84421
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[RUSSIA] MATTHEWS, Mervyn [Editor]
Soviet Government; A Selection of Official Documents on Internal Policies
New York: Taplinger Publishing Co 1974. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 472pp. Clean and sharp; internally clean top edge stained red; in a strong bright dustjacket with light wear to extremities. A very good copy indeed.<br /> <br /> Ninety-two documents showing the development of Soviet internal and foreign policy dating from the Revolution to the period of publication. Taplinger Publishing Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 84419
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Aliukov, Sergei (Professor, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia)
Approximation Theory and Applications
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
Bookseller reference : ria9780443291418_inp ISBN : 0443291411 9780443291418
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[RUSSIA] [ESPIONAGE] COOKRIDGE, EH. E. H.
The Net That Covers the World
New York: Henry Holt 1955. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over grey paper covered boards titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 315pp. Some very light soiling to the paler portions of the boards minor bumping to spine ends internally clean with some offsetting to pastedowns and a very few discrete pencil marks to margins of the prelims in a bright sharp dustjacket with some minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> A rather alarmist but for the time rational analysis of the breadth of Soviet intelligence attempts to maintain and utilize a global espionage network; covers the Atom Spy frenzy The Rosenbergs Alger Hiss etc. Henry Holt unknown
Bookseller reference : 83663
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[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA] IPATIEFF, Professor Vladimir N. [ED: EUDIN, Xenia; FISHER, Helen D.; FISHER, HH.] H. H.
The Life of A Chemist; Memoirs of Vladimir N. Ipatieff Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lt. General in the Imperial Russian Army Professor at Northwestern University etc.
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War Revolution and Peace 1946. First American Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xv; 658pp. Very light wear to the cloth mostly confined to some shallow cosmetic bumping to spine ends; internally clean; in a clean strong price-clipped dustjacket with some marginal fraying and isolated shallow loss to edges some toning of the spine panel and some largely unnecessary tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good copy in a dustjacket with some light wear.<br /> <br /> A sizeable biography of the life of Ipatieff who managed to be a respected scientific figure before the Revolution and an even more respected one afterwards. It can have been no mean feat to have been head of Imperial Russian chemical warfare research during WW1 and then post-revolution to be held responsible for the revitalization of the chemical industry of the newly minted USSR. A joint memoir of the last days of Imperial Russia and the early days of the USSR with all the turbulence fear and uncertainty that must have engendered. Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace unknown
Bookseller reference : 83794
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[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA] PARES, Bernard
The Fall of The Russian Monarchy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1939. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's deep marron cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 510pp. Very light wear to the cloth essentially limited to light bumping at the spine ends otherwise and exceptionally bright and clean copy; internally clean and fresh isolated discreet pencil annotations in places errata slip present as issued illustrated throughout with full page plates and folding elements; in a bright and clean priceclipped dustjacket which has unfortunately suffered some light marginal silverfishing and some resulting tape reinforcement to the verso. A near fine copy of the book itself with a dustjacket showing enough wear to relegate it to the lower boundary of very good; nevertheless shows very well. <br /> <br /> A carefully researched delve into the reasons and catalysts that resulted in the deaths of the Russian royal family at the hands of their own subjects with all the primary and tertiary figures covered from Rasputin to Protopopov in an attempt to trace the progress of the collapse from its earliest rumblings to the final destructive eruption. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
Bookseller reference : 83799
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[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA] HAMMER, Armand
The Quest of The Romanoff Treasure
New York: The Paisley Press Inc. Succeeding William Farquhar Payson 1936. Stated Third Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's heavy grain pale grey cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. xi; 241pp. Some wear and discoloration to extremities very light it's a very solidly produced book so wear and tear is represented by darkening of the cloth at the edges and some softening of the spine ends rather than anything more drastic; internally clean ownership to front pastedown author's signature to front flyleaf; in a handsome example of the gold and black dustjacket with some chipping and shallow loss to the spine ends scuffing and rubbing to the gilt paper coating and some marginal creasing and soiling. A very good solid copy. Illustrated throughout with full page plates. <br /> <br /> For a man named by his father after the logo of the American Socialist Labor Party after slipping out of Odessa in the 1870's Armand Hammer's journey to become one of the world's most influential businessmen and "Lenin's Favorite Capitalist" must have been a dramatic one. <br /> His father Julius had spent much of the early 20th century consolidating his role at Allied Drug and Chemical which was essentially at times a smuggling front shipping embargoed goods to Russia during the US trade sanctions. After Julius was sentenced to 3 years in Sing Sing allegedly for a botched abortion that resulted in the death of a Russian woman from subsequent pneumonia although modern research suggests that Armand a medical student might have been the one who performed the abortion and Julius took responsibility as the qualified senior medical professional present Armand took over Allied Drug and Chemical and raised it to new heights of corporate success. <br /> During Prohibition Allied's largest seller was a essentially alcoholic ginger ale sold as a medicinal tonic to great profit. <br /> <br /> Acting under the instructions of his imprisoned father Armand began taking numerous business trips to the Soviet Union. A young J. Edgar Hoover at that point basically an analyst at the Justice Department very strongly believed that the equally youthful Hammer was a COMINTERN courier and essentially placed him under surveillance for the rest of his life. <br /> Hammer's trips to Russia were ostensibly to recoup bad debts but this quickly developed into a number of lucrative business deals not least of which was selling cheap wheat to starving famine hit areas of Russia. Hammer developed a close co-operative no pun intended relationship with Lenin which resulted in a number of very high status business contracts and deals ranging from medical import contracts to 25 year's worth of asbestos mining in the Urals; one of Hammer's greatest coups was arranging payment for various services in furs caviar jewellery and antiquities seized by the Party from its long tail of enemies making him essentially a conduit for looted and otherwise dubious art jewels and antiques. <br /> At the height of Lenin's New Economic Policy Armand Hammer was the sole trade liason between the enormity of Soviet Russia and 38 major US corporations seeking to build trade deals through him. His grasp of the downrange necessities of dealing with the Soviets; graft bribery corruption and palm greasing was legendary and by the 1970's when his methods were starting to be inspected more closely there was no doubt that Hammer's understanding of legitimate business was secondary to his instinctive abilities in the fields of corporate and beaurocratic bribery and manipulation. <br /> This book is one personal perspective on the empire of treasure that Hammer accumulated; there are others and the entangled ephemeral traces of looted artworks forged and unfinished Fabergé eggs specially manufactured jeweller's tools designed to copy Fabergé's style exactly and a wealth of other foggy rumors and suspicions ranging from Armand the KGB stooge to Armand the James Bond Villain bent on Soviet domination through capitalism will continue to follow in his wake whether he be considered a legitimate businessman or a highly successful 20th century robber baron of legendary proportions. The Paisley Press Inc. Succeeding William Farquhar Payson unknown
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[COMMUNISM] [RUSSIA]
КОÐСТРУКТОРЮÐОСТЬ - 3; "Constructor Youth-3" A Soviet pre-collapse constructor set for young people
Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures."<br /> <br /> Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown
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Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II/ Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia/ Fuhrmann, Joseph T. (Editor)
The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra: April 1914-March 1917
Greenwood Pub Group 1999. Hardcover. New. 773 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.50 inches. Greenwood Pub Group hardcover
Bookseller reference : x-0313305110 ISBN : 0313305110 9780313305115
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International Centennial Chebotarev Conference (1994 Kazan, Russia)/ Parshin, A. N./ Shafarevich, I. R.
Algebra and Analysis: Proceedings of the International Centennial Chebotarev Conference Held in Kazan Russia June 5-11 1994
De Gruyter 1996. Hardcover. New. 163 pages. 10.00x7.25x0.50 inches. De Gruyter hardcover
Bookseller reference : x-311014803X ISBN : 311014803X 9783110148039
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International Conference on Algebra 1993 (Krasnoiarsk, Russia)/ Khurkhro, Evgenii I. (Editor)/ Levchuk, Vladimir M. (Editor)
Algebra: Proceedings of the Iiird International Conference on Algebra Held in Krasnoyarsk August 23-28 1993
De Gruyter 1996. Hardcover. New. 306 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. De Gruyter hardcover
Bookseller reference : x-3110144131 ISBN : 3110144131 9783110144130
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Gsovski, Vladimir ; Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney discovery of Alaska to the establishment of the Russia America Compan
Russian Administration of Alaska and the Status of the Alaskan Natives Prepared by the Chief of the Foreign Law Section Law Library of the Library of Congress. Presented by Mr. O'Mahoney April 6 legislative day March 29 1950. -- Ordered to be printed
Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Original Printed Wrappers. US Congress Serial Set No. 11401 81st Congress No. 152; v 1 99 pages; Contents clean and secure in original printed stapled wrappers; dime-size chip at lower edge of rear wrapper otherwise in very good condition. An examination of the interactions between the Russians and the native populations of Alaska Territory from the late 18th century through the 19th century . From the Russian discovery of Alaska to the establishment of the Russian American Company 1749-1799. Baranov's Rule 1799-1818. Alaska under the Second and Third Charters of the Russian American Company 1821-1867. Period of Transition 1862-1867. Tribal Property Rights. Vladimir Gsovski was Chief of the Foreign Law Section and later Chief of the European Law Division in the Law Library of the U.S. Library of Congress from 1942 until 1960. He was born in Moscow and graduated from the Law School of Moscow University after studying at Law Schools in university of Heidelberg and Leipzig. He left Russia in 1920 after havig fought on the Anti-Communist side during the war. In 1927 he came to the U.S. He was an internationally recognized authority of the law of the U.S.S.R. and other Communist countries as well as an expert on Roman law. . Government Printing Office unknown
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AMERICAN COUNCIL TEACHERS OF RUSSIA
RUSSIAN STAGE TWO: WELCOME BACK!
Kendall Hunt Publishing 2009. Paperback. New. 3rd edition. 277 pages. Russian language. 10.80x8.40x2.80 inches. Kendall Hunt Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : 1-0757563430 ISBN : 0757563430 9780757563430
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Marie Grand Duchess Of Russia
EDUCATION OF A PRINCESS
New York: Viking 1931. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing along text block edges. Chipping at spine crown. Rubbing along panel edges. Viking hardcover
Bookseller reference : 174553
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Wesley, John; Russie, Alice
Renew My Heart: Daily Devotions from the Works of John Wesley
Barbour Publishing 2021. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Barbour Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : G1643527940I3N00 ISBN : 1643527940 9781643527949
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Russie Lane
Snow Angels on the Moon
Maine Authors Publishing 2019. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Maine Authors Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : G1633811972I4N00 ISBN : 1633811972 9781633811973
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CHINESE IN RUSSIA.
Cabinet card showing two Chinese women.
Vladivostok: Livay Studio No. 11 Svetlanskaya Street c.1890. A scarce late 19th-century record of styles of clothing and foot-binding followed by well-to-do Chinese women in the Russian border city of Vladivostok. The Livay photographic studio catered specifically to Chinese residents and visitors and we have not been able to trace any other surviving examples of its work. Following China's transfer of the Haishenwei region to the Tsar in 1860 Vladivostok became a thriving centre of economic activity and cultural interchange between Russians and Chinese with both of these communities served by the Livay studio based on the city's main boulevard. This photograph is a pleasing corrective to the many surviving photographs of late-imperial Chinese women often produced in cities such as Shanghai which adopt an orientalizing gaze. While photography was introduced into Russia soon after its invention it remained a preserve of the very wealthy until the 1860s when technological changes fuelled an explosion in the number of photographic studios in major cities. "In the hands of commercial studio photographers the medium retained its original social function namely "to solemnize and to immortalize" the portrayed subject. The studio photograph was an index and a means of communicating one's status; it indicated the sitter's place in the social hierarchy both as a commodity object and as information. But more importantly photography dominated the market for portraiture and democratized visual self-representation. It captured people from across the social spectrum and brought about a visual levelling whereby the social benefits and drawbacks of this type of publicity was showered equally on kings nobles lawyers merchants and cobblers. Photography as a mechanized medium of self-representation pulled members of different social class onto the same visual level in the public sphere" Stolarski pp. 4-5. Cabinet card 164 x 108 mm mounted gelatine photograph 140 x 103 mm with glossy finish card lettered in red in Russian and Chinese. Small scuff to upper right corner of photograph image substantially unaffected couple of faint stains to card verso skinned where sometime mounted. A very good example. Christopher Stolarski "The Rise of Photojournalism in Russia and the Soviet Union 1900-1931" PhD Diss. 2013. hardcover
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Carl Faberge: Goldsmith to the Imperial court of Russia A. Kenneth Snowman Snowman
Carl Faberge: Goldsmith to the Imperial court of Russia A. Kenneth
New. unknown
Bookseller reference : NN-2JY8-8UP4 ISBN : 0670204862 9780670204861
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Jonathan Russia
In the Legions of Napoleon: The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and
New. unknown
Bookseller reference : 5C-XCYG-SGF2 ISBN : 1853673803 9781853673801
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William C. Russia
Strategy and Power in
New. unknown
Bookseller reference : T5-T6TJ-S4MR ISBN : 0029109779 9780029109779
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Nicholas Valentine Russia
A History of
New. unknown
Bookseller reference : 6K-DIRF-GQMV ISBN : 0195033612 9780195033618
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RUSSIA
De Doodenvelden van Siberië. Boeiende Nihilistenroman uit den Czarentijd tijdens de regeering van Alexander II van Rusland.
Rotterdam Premie-Uitgave Dagblad van Rotterdam. ca 1920 . Original publisher's green cloth hardback black title spine and frontcover small 4to: 856pp. illustrations. Boekblok niet mooi in de omslag. Firm copy. Rotterdam, Premie-Uitgave Dagblad van Rotterdam. ca 1920 ? hardcover
Bookseller reference : 164242
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RUSSIA
Geschichte der UdSSR in drei Teile.
Köln-Moskau Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag-Verlag Progress. 1977. Original publisher's red cloth hardback gilt title spine pictorial dustjacket 8vo: Vol. 1. Von der Urzeit bis zur Grossen Sozialistischen Oktoberrevolution: 398pp. Vol. 2. Von der Grossen Sozialistischen Oktoberrevolution bis zum Grossen Veterländischen Krieg: 368pp. Vol. 3. Vom Anfang des Grossen Vaterländischen Krieges bis zur Gegenwart: 382pp. Each volume with many illustrations chronology index persons table of contents. Fine complete set. Köln-Moskau, Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag-Verlag Progress. 1977 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 163011
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Instruction Donnee par Catherine II Imperatrice et Legislatrice.
1769. Lausanne: Francois Grasset & Comp. 1769. Lausanne: Francois Grasset & Comp. 1769. Early French Translation of an Important Document of the Enlightenment Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Balthasar Joseph Anton Felix von 1737-1810 Translator. Instruction Donnee par Catherine II. Imperatrice et Legislatrice de Toutes les Russies a la Commission Etablie par cette Souveraine pour Travailler ala Redaction d'un Nouveau Code de Loix Telle Qu'elle e ete Imprimee en Russe & en Allemand Dans l'Imprimerie Imperiale de Moscow. Nouvelle Edition Augmentee. Lausanne: Chez Francois Grasset & Comp. 1769. xiv 160 i.e. 204 pp. Lacking dedication leaf and copperplate portrait frontispiece. Quarto 7" x 4-3/4". Recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spine marbled endpapers untrimmed edges. Light rubbing to extremities light fading to spine. Moderate toning light foxing in a few places. $1250. Third French-language edition. An important document of the Enlightenment the Nakaz or Instruction composed by Catherine the Great served to guide the assembly summoned in 1766 to draft a new code of laws for the Russian Empire. Drawn primarily from Montesquieu as well as Rousseau Beccaria and other Enlightenment thinkers the Nakaz condemned torture and capital punishment and endorsed such principles as the equality of all before the law. Published in the principal European tongues between 1767 and 1769 it proved to be a statement to the world as much as a practical legal text. Three editions in French were published in 1769 first in Moscow then in Yverdon with a false St. Petersburg imprint and Lausanne. In 1769 Duc de Choiseul added the "libertine" Nakaz to the list of books prohibited in France. Balthasar the translator of our edition was a Swiss historian and member of the Enlightenment's international "Republic of Letters." His introduction pp. iii-iv is a notable document of the early reception of the Nakaz in Western Europe. Graesse Tresor de Livres Rares et Precieux II:80. unknown
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[Russia]
A New and Exact Description of Moscovy.
London: R. Baldwin 1698. First edition of this work. Octavo bound in modern wrappers 28 pages. In very good condition with some browning and toning to the text. Rare with no other examples appearing at auction in the last 80 years. R. Baldwin unknown
Bookseller reference : 112625
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RUSSIA - LEAGUE OF EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN.
Golosuite za spisok #7.
Petrograd: Tsentr. Tipograf 1917. A new Russia should be built by women and men together A remarkable survival of a flyer printed by the All-Russian League of Equal Rights for Women for their political campaign for the election to the Constituent Assembly in November 1917. The League participated in elections as its own party under the number 7. In English the flyer text reads: ''Female Citizens and male citizens! The League of Equality for Women wishing that the right of women to participate in the Constituent Assembly was not only on paper expose its candidates to the Constituent Assembly. Vote for the list number 7. If you want our children not to grow up without a home and the old people to not die on the street - send women to the Constituent Assembly. In America Australia and other countries where women take part in the drafting of laws the number of schools is multiplied prisons are empty debauchery and drunkenness noticeably diminish the protection of children and the elderly is fully secured by law. Let's send women to the Constituent Assembly too. The old Russia was built only by men and the grief and misfortunes of the motherland were always shared with them by mothers wives and daughters. A new Russia should be built by women and men together! The most important Russian laws will be written in the Constituent Assembly. From the laws that will be created in the Constituent Assembly the fate and life of many generations depends not only on men but also on women and so send women to the Constituent Assembly.''. The campaign for women's political rights in Russia termed the ''women's liberation movement'' became possible only with the beginning of the revolution in 1905 when the question of the democratization of the political system arose. The oldest women's association in Russia the All-Russian Women's Mutual Charity Society established in 1895 was actively involved and new organizations were created: the Union for the Equality of Women 1905 Women's Progressive Party 1905 and the All-Russian League of Equal Rights for Women 1907. The most influential organization was the first the Union which had 48 offices in various cities across Russia and actively conducted agitation among women workers and peasants. After its disintegration the League of Equal Rights for Women became its successor. Members of the League deliberately abandoned the broad political programme and focused their attention only on suffragist demands practising agitation tours through the provinces Orel Saratov Rostov-on-Don Kremenets Tomsk Kiev Simferopol and Narva. As a result branches of the League emerged in many cities including Moscow 1910 Kharkov 1912 Tomsk 1914 and Yekaterinburg 1914. This included the establishment of the following departments: a reading room for street children with a view to preventing child prostitution; a publishing committee that printed cheap pamphlets and books on women's issues; and an editorial commission that published the proceedings of the congress. Every day reports were given on the issues of women's equality in the League's premises. After the February Revolution delegates from the League repeatedly met with the leaders of the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on the issue of women's suffrage. Despite initial promises of support they refused to immediately act on granting political rights to women. In response the League organised the famous mass march on 20 March 1917 which brought together about 40000 women. To that date it was the most numerous and memorable stand by the Russian women's movement and resulted in the adoption by the Provisional Government of a decree on universal suffrage which was passed on 20 July 1917. Single-sided flyer 365 x 220 mm. In near-fine condition. unknown
Bookseller reference : 134554
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PAUL I, tsar of Russia.
Reglement de sa Majesté Imperiale concernant le Service de l'Infanterie.
St Petersburg: A l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences 1798. First and only edition. Single location on WorldCat at BL KVK adds a copy in the Austrian National Library lacking 2 plates; and copies in the Zentralbibliothek der Bundeswehr Düsseldorf and Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt Halle. Decidedly uncommon infantry manual for the Imperial Russian Army from the brief reign of Tsar Paul I r.1796-1801. Paul had travelled extensively in Europe and had developed a taste for French and Italian architecture and Prussian military practice taking immense pleasure in rigidly drilling his private brigade of troops in the Versailles-inspired grounds of his estate at Gatchina. When he ascended the throne he attempted to remodel the army along Prussian lines introducing entirely impractical uniforms a regime of elaborate ceremonials and parades and as shown here the implementation of rigourous regulations and drill. The present manual was directly translated into French from its Prussian equivalent the words of command also being given in phonetically rendered Russian. Paul was assassinated by a group of disaffected army officers after just 4 years on the throne. Octavo 196 x 110 mm. 13 folding plates at the rear; somewhat erratically numbered no plate 1 2 plans numbered 4 but apparently complete. Recent mottled sheep-backed marbled boards by G. Gauché Paris red morocco label gilt rules to the spine. Spine lightly sunned light soiling to the title page pale toning to the text-block throughout overall very good. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 132180
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Russia
The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost
University Press of Kansas 2002. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. University Press of Kansas paperback
Bookseller reference : G070061186XI3N00 ISBN : 070061186X 9780700611867
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Belli, Melvin M. And Danny R. Jones
Belli Looks at Life and Law in Russia
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill 1963. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 8 3/8 " High. Black and White Photographs. 381 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. Near Fine In Very Good Dj With Just A Touch Of Wear And A Few Minute Tears And Nicks Not Price Clipped. Inscribed By Jones. <br/> <br/> Bobbs Merrill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032312
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Evgueni Lvovic Nemirovski
Vozniknovenie Knigopetchatania V Moskve. Ivan Fedorov The Beginnings Of Bookbinding In Moscow: Ivan Federov
Moscow: Books 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Photographs Throughout. 404 Pp. Cream Cloth.10 1/2" Tall. Text In Russian. One Of 5000 Copies But Scarce In The West Only Four Institutional Holdings Recorded In Worldcat. <br/> <br/> Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 031153
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Morley, Henry (1822-1894, Editor); Anonymous
Sketches Of Russian Life Before And During The Emancipation Of The Serfs
London: Chapman And Hall 1866. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Vi 298 Pp. Modern Blue Cloth Gilt Stamped Black Leather Spine Label. The Modern Binding Is Fine Contents Just Very Good With Wear At Corners And Slight Even Foxing To Title Page. Scarce. Morley Reports That The Observations Were Provided By A Friend Who Brought Them From A Doctor Long Resident In Russia. The Quality And Immdiacy Of The Observations Are Remarkable. <br/> <br/> Chapman And Hall hardcover
Bookseller reference : 030652
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Empress Catherine II of Russia Douglas Smith
Love & Conquest
Northern Illinois University Press pp. liv 421 Maps Index. Hardback. New. Northern Illinois University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61006261 ISBN : 0875803245 9780875803241
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Isaak Pavlovic? Abramskij, Igor' Fe?dorovic? Be`lza; A I Evmenov, Et Al
Bol'soj Teatr Sssr : Opera - Balet / : / Bolshoi Theater Ussr Opera - Ballet
Moskva / Moscow: . - Moskva : Gos. Muzykal'noe Izd-Vo 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates And Photographs Throughout. 566 Pp. 13 1/2" X 10 1/2" X 2" Decorative Cloth With Ussr Symbols In Shades Of Orange-Red Beveled Edges. Red Marbled Endpapers Faux-Morocco Spine Label. One Of 10000 Copies. Silk Bookmark Bound In. Fine Photographs And Color And B/W Plates On Heavier Paper. Slight Wear No Fraying No Marks. <br/> <br/> ???. ??????????? ???-??, Moskva : Gos. Muzykal'noe Izd-Vo hardcover
Bookseller reference : 030448
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Tupitsyn, Igor
Sovetskoe Fotoiskusstvo. Soviet Art Photography. L'art Photographique En U.R.S.S.Das Sowjetische Kunstfoto. Elarte Fotografico Sovietico.
Moscow / Moscou / Moskau / Moscu: Ussr Foreign Languages Publishing House Circa 1960/1963 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Color And B/W Photographs Throughout. Large Format Photography Book In Five Languages Russian English French German And Spanish. A Few Text Pages 147 Numbered Plates. Silver Cloth Printed In Black. Photographic Paper Dj With Additional Clear Plastic Dj. Book With Very Slight Wear But Still Fraying Along Bottom Edge Of Spine With Printed Lettering. Dj's With Light Wear And Short Tears At Corners Small Chips To Plastic Dj At Top And Bottom Of Spine. <br/> <br/> Ussr Foreign Languages Publishing House Circa 1960/1963 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 029657
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Four Ukrainian Patriotic Postcards Including "Die Golgotha Der Ukraine
Vienna Lvov Etc.: 1917-1921 1920. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Four Postcards Of Ukrainian Patriotic Subjects Anti-Russian Color Illustrations Of Patriotic Subjects Four Different Publishers Undated But Circa 1917-1921 Unused But Somewhat Worn And Aged. One Dramatic Postcard Shows A Peasant Woman Tied To A Cross Two Children At Her Feet Burning City And Village In Background Four Black Evil Fantastic Birds Coming At Her At Top One Bird With Russian Hat With Red Star Another Wearing The Russian Imperial Crown; Ukrainian Text On Reverse 8 Lines And Three Lines Explanatory Text In Ukrainian And German. The Moscow Orks From The Northeast Lithuania Poland And Hungary From The West The Don Cossacks And Turkey From The South And The Mongols From The Southeast Have Fought Over The Vast Plains Now Independent Again As "Ukraine" For 1200 Years But The Battlefields Are Much Older Extending Into The Dim Recesses Of Ancient History And The French And Germans Have Made Their Own Attempts From Further West. The Inhabitants Of The Mediterranean Countries East Asia Africa And Central And South America Have Been Largely Innocent But Received Huge Numbers Of Refugees Fleeing Repeated Incursions Into Ukraine. Vladimir Putin Claims That Reads History Carefully But Has Missed The Vast Majority Of Historical Material On Ukraine Apparently A Visual Or Comprehension Impediment. <br/> <br/> 1917-1921 unknown
Bookseller reference : 029670
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Leah Bendavid-Val; Afterword By Philip Brookman
Propaganda And / & Dreams: Photographing The 1930S In The Ussr And The Us
U.S.A.: Edition Stemmle 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/New. 224 P. Hardcover. As New Still In Original Shrinkwrap Unopened. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> Edition Stemmle hardcover
Bookseller reference : 029800 ISBN : 3908161800 9783908161806
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Mossobet Otdel Planirovki / . . 1935 / Circuit Layout Of Moscow Original Very Large And Detailed City Map Of Moscow
Moscow 1935. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good. Color Map Of Moscow In 1935. Single Sheet Approximately 26" X 30" Printed On One Side In Black Text Green Parks Tan Public Areas/0 And Brown City Blocks Red Outlines For City Limits Red Dotted Lines For Administrative Security Area. Scale 1:50000. An Important Map Of Moscow Showing All Streets And Depicting The New General Plan For The City. 1935. Light Wear Torn Along Many Folds Browning To Exposed Lower Right Panel. One Of 50000 Copies Printed But Now Scarce. <br/> <br/> unknown
Bookseller reference : 029571
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Donina, Giabn Franco, And Pierluigi Portinaro
San Pietroburgo: Un Sogno Fra Oriente & Occidente
Brescia: Gruppo Editoriale Delfo. Hardcover. Fine. Color And B/W Illustrations Throguhout. Large Format Deluxe Souvenir Book Black Cloth In Slipcase With Nine Color Acquaforte Prints Of St. Petersburg 1800-1835 From Antique Engravings Laid In Loosely. Small Sticker Of Fox Video In Book. A Few Small Dampstains To Cloth Clamshell Box Contents Fine And Unmarked. <br/> <br/> Gruppo Editoriale Delfo hardcover
Bookseller reference : 027448
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Leningrad / Stalingrad
Washington circa 1943: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1943. First Edition . Thick Brown Card Wrappers. Good. Tall. Photographs Throughout. Unpaginated. Propaganda Piece Celebrating Victories Over Germans With Promise Of Revenge To Come. Wear At Edges Small Losses At Head And Foot Of Spine. Binding Intact But Title Page Detached Damaged Where Torn Out From Binding Clips. It Is Clear That The Only Time Soviet Russia Does Not Seek The Destruction Of Western Governments Is When They Need Something Desperately As In Wwii. Accommodating Any Russian Government Action Is A Fool's Errand. Russia Hoped That Highlighting The Battle Of Stalingrad Would Ignite Our Jealousy As The West Has Always Sought The Same Oil From The Caucasus That Hitler Needed For Survival The Same Oil That International Oil Companies Now Seek But Now Of Course There Are Vastly Greater Petrochemical Resources Elsewhere In Russia That They Are Clawing Their Way Towards. . <br/> <br/> Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown
Bookseller reference : 026844
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Sarolea, Charles
Great Russia: Her Achievement and Promise
New York: Alfred A Knopf 1916. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Blue Cloth. 252 Pp. First Printing With 1916 Date On Title Page. Clean Chalk White Lettering All Present A Few Points Just Beginning To Fray At Top And Bottom Of Spine. Hinges Tight Endpapers Clean Except For Former Owner's Signature Dated In 1916. The "Conspiracy Of Slander" Against Russia. <br/> <br/> Alfred A Knopf hardcover
Bookseller reference : 023855
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