‎Russia‎

‎Shiraev, Eric and Zubok, Vladislav‎

‎Anti-Americanism in Russia : From Stalin to Putin‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj, . 182pp. ex-libhrary witg usual marks. Shiraev and Zubok analyze growing anti-Americanism in Russia, now high again after several years of "honeymoon" with the United States. An evaluation of this phenomenon is significant for assessments of current and future international developments and especially some “worst-case scenarios” in light of further steps towards European integration, NATO expansion, and of future regional conflicts. This analysis is also crucial for theoretical and popular discussions about the course of democratic transition, as well as the practical aspects of the nature of relations between democracies. Shiraev and Zubok investigate to what extent Russian anti-Americanism is a phenomenon of a democratic polity and thus challenges a quite popular “democratic peace” thesis stating that spread of democracy makes international tension and conflicts far less frequent and profound. About the Author: Eric Shiraev is a researcher at George Washington University and co-author of The Russian Transformation. Vladislav Zubok is Senior Research Fellow at the National Security Archive, a non-profit research group at George Washington University and co-author of prize-winning Inside Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev. Ex-Library‎

‎Strugackij Arkadij , Boris Strugackij‎

‎L'albergo dell'alpinista morto‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.272. Quando l'ispettore Peter Glebski decide di prendersi una pausa dal lavoro e si ritira in un remoto chalet tra le montagne, l'ultima cosa che desidera è essere coinvolto in qualsivoglia indagine. È lì per sciare, bere brandy e oziare in beata solitudine. Ma non ha fatto i conti con gli altri vacanzieri, un gruppo eccentrico che include un famoso ipnotista, un ricco commerciante con la sua avvenente moglie, uno scienziato la cui occupazione principale sembra essere arrampicarsi sui muri e un imbronciato adolescente dal sesso indefinito. Mentre l'albergo si anima, tra cene e colazioni, risate e battibecchi, strani eventi iniziano a verificarsi. C'è un fantasma nella baita? Un burlone? Qualcosa di più sinistro? E poi una valanga blocca il passo di montagna, e all'improvviso gli ospiti si ritrovano completamente isolati, ma in compagnia di un cadavere...‎

‎Reynolds Michael A.‎

‎Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 364pp. The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. Shattering Empires draws on extensive research in the Ottoman and Russian archives to tell the story of the rivalry and collapse of two great empires. Overturning accounts that portray their clash as one of conflicting nationalisms, this pioneering study argues that geopolitical competition and the emergence of a new global interstate order provide the key to understanding the course of history in the Ottoman-Russian borderlands in the twentieth century. It will appeal to those interested in Middle Eastern, Russian, and Eurasian history, international relations, ethnic conflict, and World War I.‎

‎Mykola CHVYL'OVYJ‎

‎Due Storie Ucraine‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pagina con dedica a penna, altrimenti ottimo. pp.153 Serie: Scrittori ucraini del 1° novecento‎

‎Lotman Jurij‎

‎Conversazioni sulla cultura Russa‎

‎8vo, br. ed. pp.458. "La cultura è memoria" ha ripetuto tante volte Jurij M. Lotman, uno dei più grandi studiosi del Novecento, fondatore della semiotica della cultura, ed "è sempre legata all'esperienza passata, sottintende per forza di cose una continuità etico-intellettuale e spirituale, insita nella vita dell'individuo, della società e dell'umanità. (...) Quando parliamo della nostra cultura contemporanea - pur non rendendocene conto - magari parliamo anche della via lunghissima che questa cultura ha percorso". Nate in Estonia come sceneggiatura di una serie televisiva trasmessa tra il 1986 e il 1991, le "Conversazioni sulla cultura russa" ci offrono il volto sorprendente e 'incarnato' dello studioso presentandoci, su un registro consapevolmente antiaccademico, un vivido spaccato della cultura russa dal XVIII al XX secolo. Rendono disponibile al curioso e all'amatore, ma anche al docente e allo studioso, un materiale vastissimo, veicolato con taglio totalmente inedito, che arricchisce sensibilmente il già immenso contributo di Lotman all'esplorazione del 'continente cultura russa'.‎

‎Zoscenko Michail‎

‎Cento Scene Di Vita Sovietica‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 560pp. Michail Zoscenko è stato uno degli autori più prolifici e di maggior successo nei primi decenni della Russia sovietica. Ma soprattutto è stato uno scrittore davvero "popolare": popolari sono infatti i temi trattati, popolari l'ambientazione, i personaggi, la forma adottata (raccontini brevi, storielle umoristiche, spesso riuniti in cicli con personaggi ricorrenti) con specifici richiami alla tradizione folclorica slava. E popolare è la lingua che Zoscenko utilizza: ironica fino al sarcasmo, ferocemente parodistica, ricca di una vasta gamma di registri e di colori locali, "maleducata" (ma in realtà assai sofisticata). È lo skaz , un idioma misto di espressioni comuni, magari storpiate, locuzioni libresche, termini giornalistici, che mima la spontaneità del parlato spesso con esiti grotteschi e, in un rapporto strettissimo tra l'autore e i suoi lettori, dà vita a una nuova letteratura realista. Amatissimo dal pubblico, meno dalla critica e ancora meno dall'intellighenzia di regime, Zoscenko rimane una figura atipica, uno scrittore difficilmente etichettabile. In un'epoca che comincia a privilegiare la dimensione monumentale dell'arte, egli narra usi, costumi e psicologia dell'homo sovieticus partendo da pretesti narrativi provocatoriamente banali, che finiscono per svelare la contraddittorietà della realtà sociale, politica e culturale scaturita dalla Rivoluzione.‎

‎AFANAS'EV ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVIC‎

‎Fiabe russe proibite. Con un saggio introduttivo di Boris Andreevic Uspenskij e le "Note comparative" attribuite a Giuseppe Pitrè. A cura di Pia Pera‎

‎In 8°, br. edit., pp. 319,(1); coll. "Saggi blu"; le fiabe erotiche e anticlericali del Grimm russo espunte dalla censura zarista, ottimo es.‎

‎Maclean Rory‎

‎Pravda Ha Ha: Truth, Lies and the End of Europe‎

‎16mo, br. ed. 368pp. This is a tremendous thing that MacLean is creating; a new kind of history, in several dimensions and innumerable moods, that adds up to - across the span of his books - a great and continuing work of literature -- Jan Morris A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time -- John le Carré No one writes quite like Rory MacLean -- Robert Macfarlane MacLean combines vivid reportage with unabashed soapboxing. The result is an engrossing travelogue that's both trenchantly observant and deeply felt - Publishers Weekly‎

‎Werth Nicolas‎

‎Poutine, historien en Chef‎

‎br. ed. Le 24 février 2022, l'opinion mondiale découvre avec stupeur le discours de Vladimir Poutine justifant l'invasion de l'Ukraine, au prétexte de faire cesser un "génocide" exercé par un régime qu'il convient de "dénazifer" . Cette extraordinaire falsification de l'histoire s'inscrit dans le droit fil du grand récit national construit au cours des vingt dernières années par Vladimir Poutine et dont l'ONG Mémorial fit les frais en 2021. Ce récit, exaltant la grandeur d'une "Russie éternelle" face à un Occident agressif et décadent, n'admet aucune contestation pour servir les intérêts géopolitiques d'un régime dictatorial et répondre aux attentes d'une société désorientée suite à l'effondrement du système soviétique. Ce Tract éclaire les origines de cette distorsion des faits historiques et la façon dont elle est mise en oeuvre pour légitimer la première guerre du XXI ? siècle sur le continent européen.‎

‎Borgognone Paolo‎

‎La dottrina Stranamore. Ovvero come abbiamo imparato ad amare la guerra in Ucraina e la NATO‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 288pp. Questo non è un libro filo-russo o filo-ucraino, anti-russo o anti-ucraino. È un libro contro l’ipocrisia e a favore dell’onestà intellettuale. Un libro che ha la modesta pretesa di dire le cose bonificandole dagli orpelli retorici della propaganda di guerra e di demistificare la narrazione liberale in tema di “difesa della democrazia” nel mondo. Perché gli stessi opinion leader che oggi si affannano a condannare, con enfasi, l’invasione russa dell’Ucraina e definiscono ‘criminale’ questa operazione militare, nel 1999, nel 2001 e nel 2011 avevano approvato, definendole ‘giuste’ e ‘umanitarie’, le invasioni condotte dalla NATO in Jugoslavia, Afghanistan e Libia? Tutte le invasioni sono uguali ma qualcuna è più uguale delle altre? Perché la resistenza ucraina è considerata, dai media occidentali, ‘eroica’, mentre quella irachena era ritenuta, dalle stesse fonti di informazione, ‘terroristica’? Tutte le resistenze sono uguali ma qualcuna è più uguale delle altre? L’Ucraina è veramente un Paese “libero e democratico” così come ci viene presentato dai media ufficiali? Perché i russi non vogliono diventare americani? A queste e a molte altre domande tenta di rispondere il presente libro…‎

‎Hunczak, Taras‎

‎Russian Imperialism : From Ivan the Great to the Revolution‎

‎First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CRISP Here the authors are concerned with exploring the nature of Russian imperialism and comparing it with that of other state s. The result is a rich and many-sided account of pre-1917 peoples and events in the Eurasian continent during the whole course of tsarist expansionist history.A handsome Copy‎

‎Mettan Guy‎

‎Russofobia. Mille anni di Diffidenza‎

‎8vo. br. ed. 399pp. "La Russia è un rebus avvolto in un mistero che sta dentro un enigma", affermava Churchill nel 1939. Ma l'Occidente ha mai provato davvero a risolvere questo rompicapo? È l'oggetto osservato a essere imperscrutabile, o sono forse gli occhi dell'osservatore a essere offuscati? Partendo da Carlo Magno, fino ad arrivare alla recente crisi ucraina, Guy Mettan ricostruisce le linee di forza religiose, geopolitiche e ideologiche di cui si nutre la russofobia europea e americana. Attraverso una discussione critica delle fonti mette in luce le debolezze e le mistificazioni del pregiudizio che ancora oggi porta l'Occidente a odiare l'orso russo e a temere il suo presunto imperialismo. "Oggi - sostiene Mettan - il mistero russo non esiste più, poiché le informazioni sono disponibili, per tutti coloro che vogliano decifrarle". Introduzione di Franco Cardini.‎

‎Nikolay Koposov‎

‎Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia‎

‎8vo, br ed. 338pp. aws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and exposes their very different purposes in the East and West. In Western Europe, he shows how memory laws were designed to create a common European memory centred on the memory of the Holocaust as a means of integrating Europe, combating racism, and averting national and ethnic conflicts. In Russia and Eastern Europe, by contrast, legislation on the issues of the past is often used to give the force of law to narratives which serve the narrower interests of nation states and protect the memory of perpetrators rather than victims. This will be essential reading for all those interested in ongoing conflicts over the legacy of the Second World War, Nazism, and communism.‎

‎Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund‎

‎The Letter Killers Club‎

‎8vo, br. ed. The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described “conceivers” who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corruptor of conceptions?) The logic of the club is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday, members meet in a firelit room filled with empty black bookshelves where they strive to top one another by developing ever unlikelier, ever more perfect conceptions: a rehearsal of Hamlet hijacked by an actor who vanishes with the role; the double life of a merry medieval cleric derailed by a costume change; a machine-run world that imprisons men’s minds while conscripting their bodies; a dead Roman scribe stranded this side of the River Acheron. But in this book set in an ominous Soviet Moscow of the 1920s, the members of the club are strangely mistrustful of one another, while all are under the spell of its despotic President, and there is no telling, in the end, just how lethal the purely conceptual—or, for that matter, letters—may be. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950), the Ukrainian-born son of Polish emigrants, studied law and classical philology at Kiev University. After graduation and two summers spent exploring Europe, he was obliged to clerk for an attorney. A sinecure, the job allowed him to devote most of his time to literature and his own writing. In 1920, he began lecturing in Kiev on theater and music. The lectures continued in Moscow, where he moved in 1922, by then well known in literary circles. Lodged in a cell-like room on the Arbat, Krzhizhanovsky wrote steadily for close to two decades. His philosophical and phantasmagorical fictions ignored injunctions to portray the Soviet state in a positive light. Three separate efforts to print collections were quashed by the censors, a fourth by World War II . Not until 1989 could his work begin to be published. Like Poe, Krzhizhanovsky takes us to the edge of the abyss and forces us to look into it. “I am interested,” he said, “not in the arithmetic, but in the algebra of life.”‎

‎Krzhzhanovsky Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund‎

‎Autobiografia di un Cadavere‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 138pp. Fantasia e realtà si intrecciano nell'assurdo della Mosca staliniana, percorsa da inquietanti presenze e fenomeni. In questi otto racconti l'autore si fa cronista di un mondo al rovescio e si rivela capace di trasformare il paradosso quotidiano in evento metafisico.‎

‎Gleason John Howes‎

‎The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain: A Study of the Interaction of Policy and Opinion (Harvard Historical Studies, V. 57,)‎

‎8vo, original cloth gilt titles ex-library stamps labels, ow. very good Ex-Library‎

‎Aleksievic Svetlana‎

‎Una battaglia Persa‎

‎12mo, br. ed. 67pp. «Ho tre case: la mia terra bielorussa, che è la patria di mio padre e dove ho vissuto tutta la mia vita; l'Ucraina, che è la patria di mia madre e dove sono nata; e la grande cultura russa, senza la quale non riesco a immaginarmi. Ho care tutte e tre» ha dichiarato la Aleksievic allorché le è stato conferito il Nobel per la letteratura. «Ma è difficile parlare d'amore, di questi tempi» ha aggiunto. Solo chi si era fin dall'inizio assunto il compito di «donna-orecchio» – per raccogliere dalla voce della gente semplice il «quotidiano dell'anima» – e di testimone oculare poteva esprimersi con tanta sofferta immediatezza. Ma soprattutto chi quel compito aveva svolto con audacia fino in fondo, scandagliando in libri che risuonano come cori di voci le stazioni più neglette e laceranti di una storia collettiva.‎

‎Littell Robert‎

‎The Stalin Epigram‎

‎16mo, br. ed. Moscow, 1934. As thousands of peasant famers starve under Stalin's regime of collectivisation, Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century, defies the Kremlin with a few short, audacious lines of verse - a searing indictment of Stalin secretly recited to a handful of friends and fellow artists. When a transcript of the work falls into the hands of the secret police, the poet is taken from his home to Lubyanka prison under accusations of counter-revolutionary activities that carry the highest penalty, and his fate - as well as the fates of those close to him - is cast into bleak uncertainty. A fictional portrait based on a riveting historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is narrated in turn by Mandelstam himself, his devoted wife and his great friends, the poets Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, amongst other vividly imagined characters. A gripping and memorable achievement of rigorous research and extraordinary empathy, bestselling author Robert Littell's latest novel is a compelling testament to human courage and endurance.‎

‎Beevor Antony‎

‎Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921‎

‎8vo, hrdcover in dj, pp.592. A magnificent piece of work - as superbly researched and original as Stalingrad, and compellingly told by a historian at the top of his powers. So much of the tragic story of Russia and the bloodlands of Eastern Europe over the past century make sense after reading Antony Beevor's epic and often shocking tale of revolution, civil war, oppression, starvation, brutality and shifting borders; if anyone needs to know why history matters, this book has the answers. Stunning. - James Holland Brilliant and utterly readable. - Antonia Fraser In Stalingrad, Berlin and The Second World War, Antony Beevor transformed military history by evoking the experiences of those who fought and suffered in some the greatest wars of the twentieth century. Now he has given us what may be his most brilliant book to date - a masterpiece of historical imagination, in which the tragedy and horror of this colossal struggle is recaptured, in its impact on everyday life as well as its military dimensions, as never before. This is a great book, whose depiction of savage inhumanity speaks powerfully to our present condition. - John Gray In this brilliant marshalling of a notoriously complex history, Antony Beevor opens up a magisterial canvas of terror and tragedy. - Colin Thubron A completely riveting account of how the Russian Revolution, which started with such high hopes and idealism, degenerated into a tangle of civil conflicts marked by hideous cruelty on all sides. Antony Beevor brings his great gifts for narrative and his deep interest in the people who both make history and suffer it to illuminate that crucial period whose consequences we are still living with today. - Margaret MacMillan Beevor, best known for his formidable book Stalingrad, commands authority as a historian because his research is comprehensive and his conclusions free of political agenda. He's a skilled writer, but his prose is not what makes his books special. Rather, it's the confidence that his authority conveys - one senses that he knows his subject as well as anyone. He allows his mountain of evidence to speak for itself, simply charting the course of this horrible war, exposing its boundless cruelty. This is easily the most horrifying war story I've ever read. One wonders how Russia could ever contain so much suffering. -- Gerard DeGroot - THE TIMES, Book of the Week Antony Beevor's Russia is a masterpiece of history - and a harrowing lesson for today... This is a hugely complex story, and Beevor tells it supremely well. The book is groundbreaking in its use of original evidence from many archives; it adds new facts, tests old claims and demolishes myths on both sides. It is impressively objective.. -- Noel Malcolm - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Beevor has provided an illuminating account of one of the darkest, and most misunderstood, periods of 20th-century history. It should be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the origins of Soviet Russia. -- Jonathan Eaton - MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS A gripping narrative history of one of the most complex episodes in modern Russian history... An impressive aspect of Beevor's latest book lies in the variety of its sources, from accounts of ill-tempered debates inside Lenin's Bolshevik Party to cocaine-snorting officers in the White resistance army... This combination of clarity with vividness is Beevor's defining strength as a historian. But he also never shies from the most difficult subject - violence. -- Misha Glenny - SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE The book is a masterpiece. -- Sara Wheeler - THE SPECTATOR, lead review Antony Beevor's Russia - Revolution and Civil War makes compelling use of witness testimony including from Russian archives. . . Beevor hits his stride with the formation of the Volunteer Army and rising military opposition to the Bolsheviks. . . As an account of internecine rivalry the book has panoramic sweep. -- Catriona Kelly - FINANCIAL TIMES A wonderfully lucid writer who marshals the extensive material with great verve and understanding. . . Beevor has captured the tragedy in mesmerising detail. -- Andrew Anthony - OBSERVER A mass of chilling contemporary testimony in a new history of the 1917-21 Russian experience, written by British historian Antony Beevor, who is winning plaudits around the world. -- Max Hastings - BLOOMBERG.COM Beevor weaves his way through the enormous complexities of these years with intelligence, wit, and a talent for describing individuals and events. As one might expect he is in his element when describing battles, campaigns, and the down-to-earth realities of war. He conveys well the appalling savagery, casual violence and suffering brought on by the Civil War. -- Dominic Lieven - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Beevor is a fine historian - diligent, conscientious and knowledgeable, with a long list of excellent books behind him. This volume is well researched and full of telling detail. -- Peter Hitchens - THE MAIL ON SUNDAY A compelling account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Russian history... Antony Beevor [is] a master chronicler of diplomatic as well as military history. - Bruce Clark, The Tablet Descrizione del libro Beevor's biggest book yet - The dramatic story of Russia's revolution and civil war, from Antony Beevor, the bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad. Dalla quarta di copertina Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital. L'autore Antony Beevor is the author of CRETE: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), STALINGRAD (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), BERLIN: The Downfall, THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN (Premio La Vanguardia), D-DAY: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), THE SECOND WORLD WAR, ARDENNES 1944 (Prix Médicis shortlist) and ARNHEM: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944. Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold more than eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.‎

‎Von Eckardt, Hans‎

‎Ivan the Terrible‎

‎First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red boards with gold design on front and gold lettering on spine. Red top edge. Slight bumping at spine extremeties. Jacket has some browning, small tears, chips and creases, but is glassine wrapped for neat, crisp appearance. 421 pages plus index. The fascinating biography of the 16th century ruler of Russia, Ivan IV Vasilievich "Ivan The Terrible", the frustrated barbaric Czar of Russia. With a notes and bibliography section and a table of significant dates in the life of "Ivan The Terrible". Overall a very nice copy.‎

‎Graziosi Andrea‎

‎L'Ucraina e Putin tra storia e Ideologia‎

‎8vo, br. ed. 200pp. Perché Putin ha pensato di poter conquistare in pochi giorni l’Ucraina con il consenso dei russi ma anche degli ucraini? Cosa vuol dire ‘denazificazione’? Per spiegare questa tragedia che cambia il mondo occorre ritornare ad alcuni passaggi essenziali della storia del Novecento prima e dopo il 1991. Una vicenda complessa, che parte dal rapporto dell’Ucraina con il potere sovietico di Lenin e che passa dall’Holodomor, la terribile carestia provocata da Stalin che nel '32-'33 fece in Ucraina più di quattro milioni di vittime. Una storia che continua con la seconda guerra mondiale e l’occupazione nazista e prosegue con la fine dell’Urss e le difficoltà degli Novanta, cui l’Ucraina ha risposto guardando all’Unione Europea mentre in Russia si affermava la svolta autoritaria di Putin, fondata sul consenso a una ideologia di potenza radicata nella storia russa e condivisa da una classe dirigente formatasi tra declino sovietico e riaffermazione del potere dello Stato. Una ideologia che spinge Putin a disprezzare un Occidente opulento e corrotto in declino economico e demografico. E che gli fa pensare che sia arrivato il momento per ridare alla Russia il suo ruolo di grande potenza mondiale.‎

‎SOLZENICYN Aleksandr Traduzione Vittorio Strada‎

‎La Casa Di Matrjona‎

‎In-16° pp. 145, leg. edit. con sovrac. ill.‎

‎Solzenicyn, Aleksandr, Milli Martinelli traduzione Di‎

‎Il Cervo e La Bella Del Campo. Una Candela al Vento‎

‎16mo, tela ed. in sovracoperta , quest'ultima con minimi tagliettini marginali. pp.167.‎

‎Rieber Alfred J.‎

‎Stalin As Warlord‎

‎8vo, hardcover in dj. 352pp. The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost. But even before the fighting had ended, Stalin began to turn against the architects of success. In this original and comprehensive study, Alfred J. Rieber examines Stalin as a wartime leader, arguing that his policies were profoundly paradoxical. In preparation for the war, Stalin mobilized the whole of Soviet society in pursuit of his military goals and intensified the centralization of his power. Yet at the same time, his use of terror weakened the forces vital to the defense of the country. In his efforts to rebuild the country after the devastating losses and destruction, he suppressed groups that had contributed immeasurably to victory. His steady, ruthless leadership cultivated a legacy that was to burden the Soviet Union and Russia to the present day.‎

‎Terz Abram (Andrej Sinjavskij)‎

‎Nell'ombra Di gogol'‎

‎8vo, br. ed. In 8°, brossura editoriale, pp. 399, (5), coll. "Saggi blu", prima ed.,‎