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Erman Adolph
Travels in Siberia: Including Excursions Northwards, Down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and, Southwards, to the Chinese Frontier 2 Volumes
1st US Edition First US edition, first published in English in 1848, the original edition published in Berlin in 5 volumes between 1833-42. 8vo. 2 VOLUMES. xi-371pp,+ 42pp publisher's catalogue, vii-400pp. Original cloth blind-stamped and gilt, fraying at head, tail an corner of spine volume 2., but the gilt still bright former bookstore paste down on fep, signature and stamp of former owner, pen notes on the blank end papers, sparse foxing ow a still good set. Translated from the German by W.D. Cooley. Account by German scientist and explorer Erman of the 1828-29 Norwegian expedition to Russia and Siberia to study the north magnetic pole. Ermans work includes important comments and observations on physical geography and geology, the exile road to Siberia, Irkutsk, the chief political exile city, the manners, customs, and language of the Samoyedes and Yakuts, the trade carried on from the frontiers of Siberia to Bokhara and Tashkend, the fisheries of the Obi, the mineral riches of the Ural and Nerchinsk, the fossil ivory in the valley of the Lena and New Siberia, &c. Erman was awarded the medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1844, and the magnetic observations he made during his travels were utilized by C.F.Gauss in his theory of terrestrial magnetism.
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Dudgeon John
Historical Sketch of the Ecclesiastical, Political, and Commercial Relations of Russia with China, Drawn Chiefly from Original Sources
reprint of the original peking 1872 ed. very scarce
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Dmytryshyn, Basil; Crownhart-Vaughn, E.A.P. Vaughn, Thomas
To Siberia and Russian America : Three Centuries of Russian Eastward Expansion 1558-1867 Volume 1 Russia's Conquest of Siberia 1558-1700 ; Volume 2 Russian Penetration of the North Pacific Ocean: 1700-1797 ; Volume 3 the Russian American Colonies 1798-18
3 Volumes Set. Lasrge 8vo1st printings all. Cloth.in dj. 540pp, 557pp, 590pp. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliographies. Indexes. Monumental scholarly work on Russia expanding eastward from Siberia, across the Pacific to Western North America (Alaska). Vol I: "Russia's Conquest of Siberia - A Documentary Record 1558 - 1700." Vol II: "Russian Penetration of the North Pacific Ocean - A Documentary Record 1700 - 1797." Vol III: "The Russian American Colonies - A Documentary Record 1798 - 1867." All three volumes fine in as new jackets. heavy: please inquire on extra shipping for international orders
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McKay, John P.
Pioneers for Profit : Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913
8vo, 442p 2 maps and 16 tables
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ALGAROTTI FRANCESCO
VIAGGI DI RUSSIA. A CURA DI PIETRO PAOLO TROMPEO
Legatura editoriale mezza tela, sopracoperta e fascetta, pp. xiii, 122, in 16mo, universale einaudi 6. ottimo. Tra le opere dell'Algarotti (scrittore tra i piu' rappresentativi del '700 italiano) queste curiose note di viaggio si presentano come un documento notevolissimo per quell'interesse che destava nelle persone colte la Russia dell'epoca.
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Hamilton, George Heard, edited by Nikolaus Pevsner
The Art and Architecture of Russia
large 8vo, orig. cloth black label gilt titles, in black dj and case, xxi, (1), 320pp., 180 plates. 25 text illus.
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Atkinson Thomas Witlam
Oriental and Western Siberia : A Narrative of Seven Years Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, The Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia
Folding map, numerous black and white engravings, xvi + 533pp + 2 adverts, index, original blind stamped cloth, slightly worn, teared on top of spine. Text and plates are clean and very bright. "Atkinson's original objective in undertaking these travels was to sketch the scenery of Siberia. He traveled on a czar's pass out of Russia's Asiatic dominions from Kokhan on the west to the eastern end of the Baikal and as far south as the Chinese town of Tchin-si; and into the immense Syan-shan chain, never before seen by any European and a great portion of the western part of the Gobi. He crossed over 39,500 miles in 7 years penetrating into areas most probably never seen by a white man. He suffered significantly, from hunger and thirst and was placed in critical situations amongst Central Asian tribes and among escaped Chinese prisoners. Atkinson produce at least 560 sketches of the scenery, executed in colours. A number are exquisitely produced in this volume and in lithographed colours as well. His book has over the years become known as one of the greatest accounts of European travel into Central and Eastern Asia".
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DE VIllemarest Pierre
G.R.U. Le plus secret des services soviétiques, 1918 - 1988
in-8 , 336pp, biblio, index. ISBN: 2234021197
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Atkinson, Thomas Witlam
Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With adventures among the mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs,Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi and Gelyaks Hunting and Pastoral Tribes
First US edition in VG condition, full brown original cloth with gilt lettering and design to front cover, slight shelfwear, large folding map perfect, some foxing, not affecting illustrations, 448 pages plus 4 pages of ads. original title: Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China. With adventures among the mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks: the hunting and pastoral Tribes. , architect and traveller, Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799 - 1861) and his wife Lucy, spent seven years travelling in Siberia and Central Asia during the period 1847 - 53. Their son Alatau was born during their travels at the beginning of November in 1848 in what is today Eastern Kazakhstan. Bearing in mind the conditions they were living in and the extreme cold, it is a miracle that he survived! Thomas Atkinson's first book "Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, The Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia" was first published in London and New York in 1858. In the preface to this, his second book describing the travels he (and his wife and son who are invisible in his writing) gives more detail on the natural history and resources of this vast region than he gave in "Oriental and Western Siberia.". He did not confine himself to seeking only to satisfy the scientists among his readership but also discusses the possibility of British commerce in the region. "Our commerce, prodigious as are its operations, is, its is well known, capable of infinite expansion, and I have laid open a field of almost incalculable extent, where enterprise, skill, and industry are sure to find a profitable investment." He also addresses the great interest in Britain in Russian ambitions for the region: "For those of my compatriots who have been alarmed by the approaches of Russia to our Indian Empire, I have faithfully stated every step that has recently been made in this direction, and afforded them an opportunity of learning her present position on the north of the Himalaya. Her existing relations with China, now that we are engaged in a war with its government, will doubtless give increased interest to the facts I have been enabled to collect respecting the several advances she has skillfully made into Chinese territory, and the consequent extraordinary development of her own." (From the preface).
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Kohl Johann G.
Russia. St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkoff, Riga, Odessa, the German provinces on the Baltic, the steppes, the Crimea, and the interior of the Empire 2 Vols.
2 volumes 8vo pp.530, maps.
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Platonov S. F.
The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crises and Social Struggle in Sixteenth-And Seventeenth-Century Muscovy
8vo, 216pp. Sergei Feodorovich Platonov's Time of Troubles is a classic study of the years 1598-1613, a turbulent and decisive period in Russian history. This English translation is a valuable tool for students of the medieval as well as modern periods. Platonov, himself a tragic victim of the regimentation imposed on Soviet cultural life in the 1920s, was born in 1860 and attained immense public and professional recognition in Russia as a leading historian. In his work he synthesized, to a high degree, two major traditions of Russian historiography: the St. Petersburg school, which emphasized the collection and rigorous use of primary sources, and the Moscoe school with its socio-economic and geo-political approaches. Time of Troubles represents the finished product of a lifetime spent in research, writing and teaching. In broad terms it treats nearly a century and a half of Russian history (1500-1648); in detail it scrutinizes developments in the Muscovite State from 1598 to 1613. Some of the major issues covered in this volume are: the growing consolidation of Muscovite absolutism and the formation of a national state; the expansion of Muscovy to the west and southeast; the demise of the boyer class and the rise of the service gentry; the emergence of serfdom as the social basis of Muscovite society; the cataclysmic end of one dynasty, the House of Rurik, and the beginnings of another, the House of Romanov. For Platonov--who devoted most of his career as a scholar to the study of these dramatic years--the epoch marked nothing less than the great divide between medieval Muscovy and modern Russia, witnessing the downfall of an essentially patrimonial regime and its replacement, after fierce struggles, by a more modern state founded on a new constellation of social groups.
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Zygar Mikhail
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
8vo, pp. 371. It leaves a profoundly scary impression: [Putin's court is the] real House of Cards." --Lev Lurie, writer and historian All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted-if not controlled-by the men who at once advise and deceive him. The regional governors and bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects, far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself. So are the gatekeepers-those officials who guard the pathways to power-on whom Putin depends as much as they rely on him. The tenuous edifice is filled with all of the intrigue and plotting of a Medici court, as enemies of the state are invented and wars begun to justify personal gains, internal rivalries, or one faction's biased advantage. A bestseller in Russia, All the Kremlin's Men is a shocking revisionist portrait of the Putin era and a dazzling reconstruction of the machinations of courtiers running riot.
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Karl Schlögel
L'utopia e il terrore. Mosca 1937. Nel cuore della Russia di Stalin
8vo, br, ed, pp.834. Nel 1937 Mosca è la sede di grandiosi processi politici in cui le colpe degli accusati, del tutto inventate, vengono comunque minuziosamente analizzate. Al tempo stesso, la città vive uno stato di esaltazione. Il Commissario del popolo alterna la compilazione di liste di migliaia di dirigenti e operai da fucilare alla supervisione dei lavori della nuova metropolitana, le cui stazioni vengono inaugurate una dopo l'altra. Il Bolsoj, la piazza Rossa, le dacie in periferia, le esposizioni, ma anche i luoghi delle esecuzioni e i campi di lavoro nella zona del canale, a nord. E le vacanze estive, le strutture sportive, i cinema, le vetrine dei negozi e le feste danzanti. "Che fossero collaboratori o persino vittime, tutti si ritrovarono risucchiati, in un modo o nell'altro, nel grande movimento in cui si erano impegnati e che giunse alla sua fine solo nel 1938. La città non era altro che un enorme cantiere in continua trasformazione."
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Slezkine Yuri
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp. xviii-1104, 416 b/w illus., 2 maps. On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy s War and Peace, Grossman s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union.Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths.Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.
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Haynes, John earl, Klehr, Harvey
In Denial Historians, Communism and Espionage
8vo, cloth in dj, ex-library with usual marks. Synopsis: Focusing on what they call lying about spying the authors reveal how revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted documents from Russian archives that point to espionage links between Moscow and the CPUSA. About the Author: John Haynes and Harvey Klehr co-authors of "The Secret World of American Communism" and "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America." Ex-Library
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Vapnyar, Lara
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
8vo, br. ed. Each of Lara Vapnyar's six stories invites us into a world where food and love intersect, along with the overlapping pleasures and frustrations of Vapnyar's uniquely captivating characters. Meet Nina, a recent arrival from Russia, for whom colorful vegetables represent her own fresh hopes and dreams . . . Luda and Milena, who battle over a widower in their English class with competing recipes for cheese puffs, spinach pies, and meatballs . . . and Sergey, who finds more comfort in the borscht made by a paid female companion than in her sexual ministrations. They all crave the taste and smell of home, whereverand with whomeverthat may turn out to be. A roundup of recipes are the final taste of this delicious collection. About the Author: Lara Vapnyar emigrated from Russia in 1994. She is also the author of of the novel Memoirs of a Muse. There are Jews in My House was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and won the Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Open City. She lives on Staten Island.
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Villari, Luigi
FIRE AND SWORD IN THE CAUCASUS
8vo, 23x15.5cm, original red cloth gilt & decorated, 347pp, b&w photos, chron table, index. 1st ed. Eyewitness account of a turbulent period; covers Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan; contains c150 unique photographs. Spine teared missing 1 cm on top, ow a vg copy. Rare, in any condition.
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Lewin Moshe
The Soviet Century
8vo, ix,416 pp "The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant-- perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impossible to write, not simply due to the lack of accessible documentation, but also because it lay at the heart of an ideological confrontation which obscured the reality of the Soviet regime. In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin traces this history in all its complexity, drawing widely upon archive material previously unavailable. Highlighting key factors such as demography, economics, culture and political repression, Lewin guides us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR's leaders, the State-Party system and the Soviet bureaucracy--the "tentacled octopus" which held the real power. Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century takes in all the continuities and ruptures that led, via a complex route, from the founding revolution of October 1917 to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship and the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years" - Publisher's description.
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Cohen Stephen F.
Bucharin e La Rivoluzione Bolscevica. Biografia Politica 1888-1938
8vo br. ed. pp. 478
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Hellie Richard
Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy
8vo, cloth, ex-library with stamps and stickers. internally very good. 432pp. Ex-Library
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Jakobson Roman, a Cura Di Vittorio Strada
Una Generazione Che Ha Dissipato I Suoi Poetiil Problema Majakovskij
8vo, br. ed. alette, foto b.e n.
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Lo Gatto Ettore
Il Mito Di Pietroburgo, Storia, Leggenda, Poesia
8vo gr.pp.290 leg, edit. t.tela verde buono.
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Solovyev Leonid
The Beggar in the Harem. Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara
pp.256, Tales of Khoja Nasreddin. Russian author lauded by Tolstoy.
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Boulton Samuel Bagster
The Russian Empire: Its Origin and Development
replica esatta, 8vo br. pp.192, mappa. indici.
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A cura di Alessandro Bausani con una prefazione di Ernesto de Martino
LA RELIGIONE NELL'U.R.S.S. ( URSS)
8vo, ed. tela sov. pp. xxii-416 A cura di Alessandro Bausani con una prefazione di Ernesto de Martino Saggi e documenti tratti dalla Enciclopedia Sovietica - Questioni generali - Autori e scuole - Il cristianesimo - Aspetti russi del cristianesimo - Religioni non cristiane - Saggi e recensioni . Translations fron the great soviet ecnyclopaedia on religion and christianity.
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SEDGWICK, Capt. F.R.
THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR ON LAND - A Brief account of the Strategy and grand Tactics of the War
8vo orig. red cloth 166pp. Illusrated with 10 large fold out maps (plus line illus). of the principal battles; Yalu; Wafangou; Liauyang; Shaho; Sandepu; Mukden and the Siege of Port Arthur. It concludes with with an analysis of the Lessons of the War with expert German, French and British opinion.
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Gogol N.
LE ANIME MORTE.
In 8vo, XIV-370 pp. Trad.integr. di A.Villa. Bross.orig
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AKSAKOV SERGEJ T.
CRONACA DI FAMIGLIA
in 16 pp. 289 Cartonato mezza tela con titoli al dorso e al piatto, Introduzione e traduzione a cura di L. Satta Boschian
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VAMBÉRY Arminius
History of Bokhara, From the Earliest Period down to the Present
8vo, pp xxxv, 419, original red decorat. cloth, upper and lower of spine chippped, internally very good, partially uncut.
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Ehrenburg Ilya
Chekhov, Stendhal, and Other Essays
First Borzoi Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 291pp. Ex-library Ex-Library
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DOSTOJEVSKIJ FJODOR
IL GIOCATORE (DALLE MEMORIE DI UN GIOVANOTTO)
In-8, pp. 148, con una tav. in b/n applicata all'antiporta, bross. III ediz. nella traduzione di Bruno Del Re.
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Braund, David
Georgia in Antiquity : A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia 550B.C. - A.D.562
Second Printing. The first full history of ancient Georgia to be written outside Georgia itself. Full black cloth binding with bright gilt lettering to spine. No bumps or dents. Internally pristine with no markings of any kind. Pictorial dustjacket has no chips, tears or creases and is not price clipped. 8vo, xvii. map. 359pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs and plans. Extensive bibliography and index.
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BENEDETTI EUGENIO
Storie Di Un Siciliano Mezzo Russso e Un po' Cinese
8vo, leg. tela edit in sovracoperta, pp. 206.
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Woytinsky Wladimir
UNA VERA DEMOCRAZIA ( LA GEORGIA )
14x20 p.(2)+327 br. ed. intonso - numerose illustrazioni in tavole f.t. e una carta geografica ripiegata. - storia della prima Repubblica Socialista della Georgia. firma di app.
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Préhac Alain
IL'F ET PETROV TEMOINS DE LEUR TEMPS - Stalinisme et littérature - 3 volumes
8vo boch. 160mm*240mm 1922 grammes 999 pages. 3 volumes. ilf e petrov letteratura stalin.literature russe
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GRIEKOV B. D. - IAKUBOVSKI A. IU.
L'orda D'oro
In 8° (23,5 cm) XVIII-366 pp L'invasione dei mongoli in Russia tra il XII e il XV sec. Con 2 carte a doppia pagina ripiegate fuori testo, indice dei nomi. Brossura originale,
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Volkoff Vladimir
L'interrogatorio
8vo. br.cop.fig.a col. Trad.di M.Pezzella. cm.14x23, pp.186, Coll.Il Bianco e il Blu 1
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Frescaroli Antonio
La ghepeù e La N.k.v.d. (NKVD), L'allucinante Storia Della Qinquisizione Bolscevica
8vo, br. ed. con bandelle, pp.240, numerose illustr. f.t.
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Casalini Cristiano, Luana Salvarani
Brodskij 1964 un Processo
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Troyat Henri
Alessandro I. La Sfinge Del Nord
Trad.di A.Silva. 8vo, cm.13,5x21,5, pp.511,num.tavv.bn.ft. leg.ed.soprac.fig.a col.cofano.
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Margolin Julius
Voyage au pays des Ze-Ka
8vo, br. ed. couvert.p. 789.
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Mochulsky Fyodor Vasilevich
Gulag Boss a Soviet Memoir
8vo 216 x 145 mm. searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginzburg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners to guards. He depicts the power struggles within the camps between the secret police and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had been arrested for the generic crime of counter-revolutionary activities) and the criminal convicts.And because Mochulsky writes of what he witnessed with the detachment of the engineer that he was, readers can easily understand how a system that destroyed millions of lives could be run by ordinary Soviet citizens who believed they were advancing the cause of socialism. Mochulsky remained a communist party member his entire life--he would later become a diplomat--but was deeply troubled by the gap between socialist theory and the Soviet reality of slave labor and mass murder. This unprecedented memoir takes readers into that reality and sheds new light on one of the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th century.
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King David
Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin
4to softcover New. 291 x 248 mm. Through an amazing array of posters, photographs, paintings, magazines, book jackets, advertisements, pamphlets and other rare ephemera, "Red Star Over Russia" tells the story of the Soviet Union, from the Russian Revolution to the death of Stalin. During this period Soviet citizens endured revolutionary upheavals, civil war, Nazi invasion, famine and appalling oppression. For countless millions, revolutionary dreams were transformed into unspeakable tragedy. Yet it was also a time of intense creativity, in which the hopes, aspirations and revolutionary fervour of a people were captured in an extraordinary outpouring of visual material. Universally acclaimed on its publication in 2009, David King's masterful book is the fruit of over 40 years of research. In it, he rescues many of the unsung heroes of the epic struggles that shaped the Soviet Union from obscurity and commemorates the talent of some of the most brilliant artists, photographers and designers of the twentieth century. would require extra shipping for international orders.
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Ulam Adam B.
In nome del popolo. Profeti e terroristi nella Russia prerivoluzionaria
8vo gr. 23 cm. ril. ed. in sovracoperta, 432 pagine
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Draitser, Emil
Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir
8vo, 235 x 159 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word 'Jewish' - even in casual conversation - he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when 'Shush!' was the most frequent word he heard: 'Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't cry over your murdered relatives'. This compelling memoir conveys the reader back to Draitser's childhood and provides a unique account of midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.
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Werth Nicolas
Nemici del popolo. Autopsia di un assassinio di massa. Urss, 1937-38
8vo, pp. 296. Dietro la facciata dei processi-farsa che liquidarono gli oppositori politici di Stalin nel 1936-38, la "grande purga" sterminò, in sei mesi fra il 1937 e il 1938, qualcosa come 1500 persone al giorno: persone comuni accusate ed eliminate senza colpa alcuna. Tutto muove da una direttiva generale di Stalin che mira a ripulire l'Urss dai "nemici del popolo" e fissa, regione per regione, le quote di arresti, di condanne, di esecuzioni da effettuare. La spietatezza staliniana si sposa alle logiche disumane della burocrazia, allo spirito di emulazione delle amministrazioni, agli eccessi di zelo dei gregari, producendo un gigantesco assassinio di massa. Il saggio di Werth si addentra nei corridoi e nei sotterranei dell'amministrazione sovietica, segue l'andirivieni delle direttive e delle relazioni fra il centro e le periferie, per raccontare la messa in opera dell'impressionante macchina politico-burocratica del Terrore che stritolò nei suoi ingranaggi non meno di 750 mila persone
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Draitser Emil
Forbidden Laughter. Soviet Undarground Jokes Nedozvolennij cmeh (English and Russian Edition) (ISBN:0896260453)
Revised Edition. Dual Language - Russian and English. Signed and inscribed by Draitser "To Maya with the warmest feelings. Emil". Translated by Jon Pariser. ; B&W Illustrations; the best jokes that soviet russia has produced.
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FEUCHTWANGER Lion
Mosca 1937 Diario Di Viaggio Per I Miei Amici
8vo, bross. ed. con bandelle, pp.121. unica trad. autorizzata di fulvia carena di moskau 1937.
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Agabekov George Giorgio
G.P.U. Memorie di un membro della Ceca (O.g.p.u, Cekha, G.r.u. gru)
8vo, 20 cm, brossura editoriale pp. vii, 312 Qualche traccia d'uso alle copertine, altrimenti ottimo. spionaggio sovietico persia turchia turkestan balcani.
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Draitser Emil
Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative, The True Life of Dmitri Bystrolyotov
8vo, 448pp. Relates the life of a top Soviet spy, who seduced women to obtain diplomatic pouches, risked his life to steal military secrets and summoned physical courage to cross the Sahara Desert and the jungles of the Congo, only to be tortured by the Stalin regime, forced to falsely confess to selling out and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in the Gulag.
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