‎Communisme‎

‎Donovan James B,‎

‎La verità Sul Caso Abel (la Storia Vera Che Ha Ispirato Il Film Il Ponte Delle Spie‎

‎Traduzione di Di Giuro V. Milano, 2015 ;8vo, ril.,sovracop. con fascetta editoriale pp. 380. (Saggi). La mattina del 10 febbraio 1962, James Donovan è in missione sulla Glienicker Brücke, il celebre ponte delle spie che collega Berlino Ovest con l'Est comunista. Al suo fianco c'è Rudolf Abel, la più misteriosa ed efficiente spia del XX secolo, per anni clandestinamente negli Stati Uniti a capo dell'intelligence russa. Dall'altra parte del ponte, i sovietici tengono in ostaggio Francis Powers, il pilota di un U-2 americano abbattuto mentre era in volo segreto sull'URSS: Donovan ha ricevuto dal presidente Kennedy l'incarico di riportarlo in patria a ogni costo. La verità sul caso Rudolf Abel ci catapulta nelle drammatiche giornate vissute per realizzare lo scambio di prigionieri, nelle lunghe e pericolose trattative diplomatiche, nei momenti concitati e avventurosi della guerra fredda tra due blocchi con le armi costantemente puntate‎

‎Van Buskirk, Emily‎

‎Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature‎

‎8vo, 355 pages. The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the desk drawer, in which she analyzed herself and other members of the Russian intelligentsia through seven traumatic decades of Soviet history. In this book, the first full-length English-language study of the writer, Emily Van Buskirk presents Ginzburg as a figure of previously unrecognized innovation and importance in the literary landscape of the twentieth century. Based on a decade's work in Ginzburg's archives, the book discusses previously unknown manuscripts and uncovers a wealth of new information about the author's life, focusing on Ginzburg's quest for a new kind of writing adequate to her times. She writes of universal experiences--frustrated love, professional failures, remorse, aging--and explores the modern fragmentation of identity in the context of war, terror, and an oppressive state. Searching for a new concept of the self, and deeming the psychological novel (a beloved academic specialty) inadequate to express this concept, Ginzburg turned to fragmentary narratives that blur the lines between history, autobiography, and fiction. This full account of Ginzburg's writing career in many genres and emotional registers enables us not only to rethink the experience of Soviet intellectuals, but to arrive at a new understanding of writing and witnessing during a horrific century.‎

‎Rossi Jacques‎

‎Qu'elle était belle cette utopie ! Chroniques du goulag‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Né en France en 1909, Jacques Rossi passera 19 ans au Goulag. Français et agent du Komintern en Espagne pendant la guerre civile, Jacques Rossi est rappelé à Moscou en 1937. Happé dans le mécanisme des purges, il est condamné sans procès à huit ans de travaux de redressement pour "espionnage au profit de la France et de la Pologne". En 1948, sa qualité de "contre-révolutionnaire" lui vaudra une rallonge de dix ans. Il sera libéré en 1956 après le congrès. Ces quelque vingt années au goulag dont pas fait de Jacques Rossi un homme amer mais un homme libre à jamais, terriblement lucide, dont l'humour noir ravageur va déconcerter plus d'un lecteur. Ne dit-il pas que ce séjour dans les bagnes soviétiques, qu'il qualifie de "laboratoires de sociologie appliquée", a été l'occasion unique d'observer le système soviétique à nu, sans masque. Dans ses récits, Jacques Rossi nous décrit l'univers du goulag au quotidien. Son témoignage hallucinant est servi par une écriture d'où est exclue toute sensiblerie. Il nous donne à voir l'humanité souffrante au travers des existences mutilées, brisées de femmes et d'hommes dont le seul crime, aux yeux du régime stalinien, était pour la plupart d'être nés. Un livre essentiel pour qui veut comprendre comment une utopie fut dévoyée en une barbarie qui fit des millions de victimes.‎

‎Hochschild, Adam‎

‎Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in Spain's World War 1936-39‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 438pp. Hochschild, Adam‎

‎Merridale Catherine‎

‎Lenin on the Train‎

‎8vo, pp.368.By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home? Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station. With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of the train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian revolution and shows how these events intersected. She brilliantly uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses, observing Lenin as he travelled back to a country he had not seen for many years. Many thought he was a mere 'useful idiot', others thought he would rapidly be imprisoned or killed, others that Lenin had in practice few followers and even less influence. They would all prove to be quite wrong.‎

‎MARCOU Lilly‎

‎Stalin Vita Privata‎

‎In 8°, cop. edit. ill., pp. (XV),256,(2), con ill. b.n. n.t., volume della collana "Biblioteca di storia"‎

‎Fitzpatrick Sheila‎

‎A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia‎

‎8vo, hardcover, First edition, first impression. In 'as new' condition, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, looks unopened, unread. 346pp, illustrated. In 1968 historian Sheila Fitzpatrick was 'outed' by the Soviet newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya as the next thing to a spy for Western intelligence. A graduate student at Oxford, Fitzpatrick had spent time in Moscow to access several of its archives for her doctoral research on A V Lunacharsky, the first Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Moscow, the world capital of socialism, was renowned for its drabness. The buses were overcrowded; there were endemic shortages and endless queues. This was the era of Brezhnev, of a possible 'thaw' in the Cold War, when the Soviets couldn't decide either to thaw out properly or re-freeze. Yet, despite KGB attention, and the impossibility of finding a suitable winter coat, Sheila felt more at home in Moscow than anywhere else- a feeling cemented by her friendships with Lunacharsky's brother-in-law, Igor and daughter, Irina. Punctuated by letter to her mother in Australia and her diary entries from the time, and borne along by Fitzpatrick's wry insightful narrative, A Spy in the Archives captures the life and time of Cold War Russia and provides a unique insight into everyday life in the Soviet Union‎

‎Kautsky Karl‎

‎La via al potere. Considerazioni politiche sulla maturazione della Rivoluzione‎

‎16mo br., ed. Introduz.e traduz.di Andrea Panaccione. cm.11x18, pp.XIX,174, Coll.UL,120. ingialimento da scaffale, altrimenti ottimo‎

‎Antonkin Alexei‎

‎Les Chiens de Faience. Témpoignage d'un correspondant de l'agence Tass à Pékin pour servir a l'histoire de l'Union soviétique et de la Chine‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 14.5x21. 215pp.‎

‎Druzhnikov Yuri‎

‎Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.214. When Russia was in the throes of Joseph Stalin's campaign for the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, a young boy named Pavlik Morozov informed the OGPU (later called the KGB) that his father was an enemy of the regime. As a result, Pavlik's father was arrested and disappeared in a Soviet concentration camp. Enemies of the party later killed the boy, whereupon people proclaimed him a hero. After that, Pavlik Morozov's glory surpassed the fame of many Russian heroes. Hundreds of works have been published about the boy in various genres; his portrait has graced galleries, postcards, and postage stamps; ships and libraries have been dedicated in his honor. Informer 001 is the first independent study of the Morozov affair. Yuri Druzhnikov examined documents, visited museums, and interviewed everyone who knew Morozov during his short lifetime. In book after book, he discovered inconsistencies in every fact, from where Morozov was born to how old he was at the time of his death. As Druzhnikov pieced together the story about Morozov's life, death, and legacy, it became clear that the campaign to keep Morozov a hero was centrally directed. Informer hero number 001 remained a fearful reminder to all; to those who inform, and those who become the victims of denunciations. Informer 001 offers Western readers a unique glimpse into the behind-the-scenes operations of Soviet political history and will be fascinating for the general public, as well as for sociologists, historians, and Russian studies specialists.‎

‎Lafargue Paul, Introduzione di Maurice Dommanget‎

‎Il Diritto All'ozio‎

‎In 16°, br. edit. ill., pp. 145,(3); coll. "Universale Economica 633"‎

‎Piretto Gian Piero‎

‎Icone sovietiche. Il cantastoria. Testi delle canzoni abbinate alla raccolta di immagini. Con CD Audio Copertina flessibile 13 nov 2015‎

‎Yang Jiang‎

‎A Cadre School Life Six Chapters‎

‎8vo, br. ed. Translated by Geremie Barme and bennett Lee. The author was one of China's leading intellectuals at the tiem of The Cultural Revolution in China, She was sent to a cadre school for "re-education" and this short memoir, told with gentle humour and simplicity, is an account of this time of national upheaval.‎

‎Suny Ronald Grigor‎

‎Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj, on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny-one of the world s leading historians of the period-explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of Communism and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders. While a quarter century after the disintegration of the USSR, the story usually told is one of failure and inevitable collapse, Suny reevaluates the promises, missed opportunities, achievements, and colossal costs of trying to build a kind of socialism in the inhospitable environment of peasant Russia. He ponders what lessons 1917 provides for Marxism and the alternatives to capitalism and bourgeois democracy.‎

‎Brackman Roman‎

‎The Secret File of Joseph Stalin‎

‎large 8vo, br. ed. 418pp. Roman Brackman was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1931. In 1935 his father, an engineer, was imprisoned in Gulag camp near Dmitrov. As a boy Roman stayed for weeks with his father in the camps barracks and saw the barb wire, watch towers and columns of prisoners going to and from work. He grew up during the Great Purges when many of his relatives were arrested and perished. He graduated from high school in 1948 and enrolled in the Moscow Oriental Institute, Arabic division. In 1949 Roman and two of his school friends tried to escape from the Soviet Union by swimming from the Black Sea port Batumi to Turkey. They were arrested and sentenced to 10 years in Special Political prison camps. Roman was sent to Norylsk Gulag where he took an active part in prisoners uprising in the summer of 1953 only to be released in 1955 in the first post-Stalin amnesty. In 1959 Roman managed to leave the Soviet Union legally - his wife was a Polish citizen. In 1962 he, his wife and their two sons immigrated to the United States. In 1965 Roman graduated from City College of New York with bachelor degree in science and in 1980 he received the doctorate degree in history from New York University. During Carter-Reagan election campaign in 1979-1980 Roman published his first book "Jimmy Carter Provocateur-in-Chief." The first edition of his book "The Secret File of Joseph Stalin - A Hidden Life" was published in 2001 in London and translated to several languages, including Russian.‎

‎Losurdo Domenico‎

‎La lotta di classe. Una storia politica e Filosofica‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.387. La crisi economica infuria e si discute sempre più del ritorno della lotta di classe. Ma siamo davvero sicuri che fosse scomparsa? La lotta di classe non è soltanto il conflitto tra classi proprietarie e lavoro dipendente. È anche "sfruttamento di una nazione da parte di un'altra", come denunciava Marx, e l'oppressione "del sesso femminile da parte di quello maschile", come scriveva Engels. Siamo dunque in presenza di tre diverse forme di lotta di classe, chiamate a modificare radicalmente la divisione del lavoro e i rapporti di sfruttamento e di oppressione che sussistono a livello internazionale, in un singolo paese e nell'ambito della famiglia. A fronte dei colossali sconvolgimenti che hanno contrassegnato il passaggio dal XX al XXI secolo, la teoria della lotta di classe si rivela oggi più vitale che mai a condizione che non diventi facile populismo che tutto riduce allo scontro tra umili e potenti, ignorando proprio la molteplicità delle forme del conflitto sociale. Domenico Losurdo procede a una originale rilettura della teoria di Marx ed Engels e della storia mondiale che prende le mosse dal Manifesto del partito comunista.‎

‎Smith Kathleen E.‎

‎Moscow 1956 the Silenced Spring‎

‎8vo hardcover in Dust Jacket Condition. 448 pp. 28 halftones. "Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor’s abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalin’s infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had his report read out loud to members across the Soviet Union that spring. However, its message sparked popular demands for more information and greater freedom to debate. Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring brings this first brief season of thaw into fresh focus. Drawing on newly declassified Russian archives, Kathleen Smith offers a month-by-month reconstruction of events as the official process of de-Stalinization unfolded and political and cultural experimentation flourished. Smith looks at writers, students, scientists, former gulag prisoners, and free-thinkers who took Khrushchev’s promise of liberalization seriously, testing the limits of a more open Soviet system. But when anti-Stalin sentiment morphed into calls for democratic reform and eventually erupted in dissent within the Soviet bloc—notably in the Hungarian uprising—the Party balked and attacked critics. Yet Khrushchev had irreversibly opened his compatriots’ eyes to the flaws of monopolistic rule. Citizens took the Secret Speech as inspiration and permission to opine on how to restore justice and build a better society, and the new crackdown only reinforced their discontent. The events of 1956 set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.".‎

‎Haslam Jonathan‎

‎Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj, the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War. Covering both main branches of Soviet espionage - civilian and military - Jonathan Haslam charts the full range of the Soviet intelligence effort and the story of its development: in cryptography, disinformation, special forces, and counter-intelligence. In a tragic irony, an organization that so casually disposed of others critically depended upon the human factor. Due to their lack of expertise and technological know-how, from early on the Soviets were forced to rely heavily on secret agents instead of the more sophisticated code-breaking techniques of other intelligence agencies. But in this they were highly successful, recruiting spy rings such as the infamous Cambridge Five in the 1930s. Had it not been for Soviet espionage against Britain s code-breaking effort during the Second World War, Stalin might never have won the victory that later enabled him to dominate half of Europe. Similarly, espionage directed at his allies enabled the Soviets to build an atomic bomb earlier than expected and to take calculated risks in post-war diplomacy, such as his audacious blockade of Berlin which led to the Berlin Airlift. Khrushchev s denunciation of Stalin in 1956 alienated many of the foreign friends so valued by the Soviet intelligence services. It also made new recruitment of foreign agents much more difficult, as the USSR rapidly lost its glamour and ideological appeal to potential supporters in the West during the 1950s. However, the gap was finally bridged through exploiting greedy and disloyal Western intelligence officers, using blackmail and bribery - and with great success. In fact, it was the ultimate irony that the KGB and GRU had never been more effective than when the Soviet Union began to collapse from within‎

‎Wittke Carl‎

‎Against the Current. The Life of Karl Heinzen (1809-80)‎

‎5.25"x8.75". Inscribed & signed by the Author on the fep; Brick cloth with gold spine title on black printed label; An almost fine copy in a very good dust jacket; 342 pages.‎

‎Fusaro Diego‎

‎Bentornato Marx! Rinascita di un pensiero Rivoluzionario‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.374. Marx è morto. È questa l'ossessiva litania che siamo ormai abituati a sentire. Dietro tale canto funebre si cela però, forse, l'auspicio che tale trapasso abbia luogo davvero, perché il "morto" in questione è ancora in forze e non cessa di seminare il panico tra i vivi. Chi si ostina a ripetere, in nome di Dio o del Mercato, che "Marx è morto" lo fa, allora, perché assillato dal suo spettro.- esso continua infatti a denunciare le contraddizioni di un mondo capovolto. Anche oggi che il "socialismo reale" è naufragato e che la storia ha mandato in frantumi il sogno di Marx, il fallimento delle sue profezie non intacca l'esattezza della denunce da lui formulate, e la sua critica radicale del capitalismo rappresenta ancora lo strumentario concettuale più "forte"per criticare la società esistente e le contraddizioni che la permeano. Il progetto marxista continua a essere la più seducente promessa di felicità di cui la filosofia moderna sia stata capace.‎

‎Wadia J.b.h.‎

‎M.N. Roy - The Man: An Incomplete Royana‎

‎8vo, . Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 121 pages with b/w frontispiece. Reminiscences of Roy penned by an admirer and good friend. Hardcover with jacket, text clean and very good‎

‎Eberle Henrik‎

‎The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler's Personal Aides‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 370pp. Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, he was in 1945 unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the debris of the Berlin bunker. In his paranoia, Stalin ordered his secret police, the NKVD, precursor to the KGB, to explore in detail every last vestige of the private life of the only man he considered a worthy opponent, and to clarify beyond doubt the circumstances of his death. For months two captives of the Soviet Army--Otto Guensche, Hitler's adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his personal valet--were interrogated daily, their stories crosschecked, until the NKVD were convinced that they had the fullest possible account of the life of the Führer. In 1949 they presented their work, in a single copy, to Stalin. It is as remarkable for the depth of its insight into Adolf Hitler--from his specific directions to Linge as to how his body was to be burned, to his sense of humor--as for what it does not say, reflecting the prejudices of the intended reader: Joseph Stalin. Nowhere, for instance, does the dossier criticize Hitler's treatment of the Jews. Today, the 413-page original of Stalin's personal biography of Hitler is a Kremlin treasure and it is said to be held in President Putin's safe. The only other copy, made by order of Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1959, was deposited in Moscow Party archives under the code number 462A. It was there that Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl, two German historians, found it. Available to the public in full for the first time, The Hitler Book presents a captivating, astonishing, and deeply revealing portrait of Hitler, Stalin, and the mutual antagonism of these two dictators, who between them wrought devastation on the European continent.‎

‎LUKACS GYORGY, Trad.e pref.di C.Cases‎

‎Il Marxismo e La Critica Letteraria‎

‎16mo, pp.472, br. ed. Contiene: Parte I: Introduzione agli scritti di estetica di Marx e Engels (La polemica tra Marx-Engels e Lassalle sulla tragedia Franz von Sickingen; F.Engels teorico e critico della letteratura; Marx e il problema della decadenza ideologica) - Parte II: Narrare o descrivere?; La fisionomia intellettuale dei personaggi artistici; Una discussione epistolare tra Anna Seghers e Georg Lukacs; Lo scrittore e il critico.‎

‎Hanebrink Paul‎

‎A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.336. For much of the twentieth century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. This myth that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe?was a paranoid fantasy, and yet fears of a Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy took hold during the Russian Revolution and spread across Europe. During World War II, these fears sparked genocide. Paul Hanebrink?s history begins with the counterrevolutionary movements that roiled Europe at the end of World War I. Fascists, Nazis, conservative Christians, and other Europeans, terrified by Communism, imagined Jewish Bolsheviks as enemies who crossed borders to subvert order from within and bring destructive ideas from abroad. In the years that followed, Judeo-Bolshevism was an accessible and potent political weapon. After the Holocaust, the specter of Judeo-Bolshevism did not die. Instead, it adapted to, and became a part of, the Cold War world. Transformed yet again, it persists today on both sides of the Atlantic in the toxic politics of revitalized right-wing nationalism. Drawing a worrisome parallel across one hundred years, Hanebrink argues that Europeans and Americans continue to imagine a transnational ethno-religious threat to national ways of life, this time from Muslims rather than Jews.‎

‎Buber-Neumann Margarete‎

‎Da Potsdam a Mosca. Tappe di una strada Sbagliata‎

‎8vo, br. ed. brossura editoriale con copertina illustrata, pp. 436 con illustrazioni n.t.‎