History: Russia And Soviet Union from The Owl at the Bridge

Vernadsky updated his history to reflect changing situations and attitudes, presumably based on his revised lectures at Yale. His observations are always interesting. This third edition takes into account the Soviet / Russian experience in World War II and the early years of the Cold War. ix, [2], 533 pages, 3 maps, 21 cm. Owner name on front… Ler mais sobre este item

Izdanie [Moskva] Obrazovanie 1919. Soft Cover. 44 pp. + 8 plates; 26.5 cm. Series: Kul'turnyja SokroviÅ¡ča Rossii 15. Guide to the architecture of Velikiy Ustyug. In Russian. Stock#47255. Vg,on poor paper / soft cover.

London, Thames & Hudson, 1986.. Hard Cover. The 82 illustrations are watercolors of considerable skill. ”Here are the country estates, the large families indulging in various sports and pastimes, the observance of Easter and Christmas, the heat of the summer, the frost of the winter.” Stock #26374. Vg/vg. Russian History; biography; Aristocracy.

Modern Library [copyright 1935]. Hard Cover. xxiv, 371 p. Reed reported on events in Russia and was caught up in the October 1917 Revolution. His enthusiasm for Bolsheviks and the Communist cause grew; he died covering the fighting of the Red Army. Stock#25003. Vg/ no dj.

Paris, Lavillette, 1792. First Edition. Hard Cover. iv, [7] - 248 pages; 17 cm. Chapters: Tableau esquisse de la fermentation qui agite actuellement l'Empire Ottoman, la Russie & la Pologne; Commerce de Russie; Maree de la mer Germanique; Palais imp de la Haye le lundi cinq Septembre 1735; Anecdotes sur M. de Richelieu. Rulhières was "a knight of St.… Ler mais sobre este item

St. Petersburg, Tip. M. Merkusheva, 1905-1908. In Cyrillic Russian. Literary essays on Russian intellectual life in the 19th century. Soft Cover. Two volumes: iv, 339; iv, 211, 62 pages; 19.5 cm. Printed paper covers, spine of vol. 1 clumsily rebacked. From the library of Alan Pollard. Stock#27639/h.

Moskva, Izd-vo sot︠s︡ialʹno-ėkon. lit-ry, 1958. "Dannoe issledovanie i︠a︡vli︠a︡etsi︠a︡ prodolzheniem i razvitiem monografii Formirovanie promyshlennogo proletariata v Rossii," opublikovannoĭ ... v 1940 g." Hard Cover. 622 pages; 23 cm. Vg / no dj. Stock#43276 (Pollard).

[Moscow] Foreign Languages Pub. House. [1961?]. Hard Cover. Accordion-fold portfolio of 34 color photos, postcard size, 10.5 x 16 cm. Text in six languages on rear. Attached to map-lined boards; good. Stock#102126a.

Irvine, CA, , Russian History / Histoire Russe, 1983. Periodical. [iv], 138 p., 24 cm. Contains three articles on 1.) Soviet, 2.) Jewish, and 3) on Batu in medieval history. Pollard. Stock# 42,407. Vg / journal.

Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Books, [1930]. Hard Cover. vii, 386 p. illus. plates, ports., facsim. Cheap reprint of the Viking Press, 1928 edition. The Russian priest Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, (ca.1870-1916) and his influence in the court of Tsar Nicholas II (1894-1917) had tragic results for him, the royal family, for Russia, and the world. Yet he was a… Ler mais sobre este item

An English woman engaged as companion/ governess to a Russian family in 1914, the author volunteered for Red Cross work. A selection from her diaries (she wrote 400,000 words), this is at once very personal and a mirror of the great events that shattered the Russian Empire. Solzenitsyn is quoted as saying, 'The photographs inspired my imagination.' Hardcover. 422 pages,… Ler mais sobre este item

London, Heineman, 1992. Hard Cover. 542 pages, 16 pages of plates, illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; index; 25 cm. An historical outline of Sioberia from the first crossing of the Ural Mountains by an outlaw band of Cossacks in 1581 to the present. A vast landmass with the richest mineral resources on earth. Bibliograpy, pages [499]-516. Fine in Fine dust… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris, A. Franck, Libraire Etrangère, 1852. Printed in Nice. NUC 243: 324 (NH 0325829)-- MH-BA, NNC. Hard Cover. 8vo; 158 pages (1-7 in four, 8 in one). BOUND WITH [Hertzen] Du Developpement des Idées Revolutionaires en Russie Par A. Iscander [pseud.]. Paris, A. Franck, 1851. xv, 176 p. (1-12 in eights). Printed in Nice. Dedicated "A Notre Ami Michel… Ler mais sobre este item

Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Pub., 2006. Hard Cover. xv, [1], 260 p. front., illus. (incl. plans), plates, folding map; 24 cm. Originally published: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1922. "One of the most original and profound classical scholars of the first half of the twentieth century." stock#42463x. Grey cloth stamped in black; no dj as issued; new from publisher.

NY, Basic Books, 1974. Hard Cover. xv, 224 p., 6 leaves of plates, 22 cm. The return of Soviet citizens, mostly soldiers captured first by Germans and then by Western Allies, caused physical and moral problems as World War II ended. The people most outraged in 1974 would have been first to object to aliens being admitted to their… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Harper, 1969. Hard Cover. 444 p. Stalin's daughter describes the year from December 1966 when, in India, she defected to the West, to December 1967 in Princeton, New Jersey, where she had moved. She tells of her life in the Soviet Union and the difficult break with family, friends, security.” Stock#26379. Fine in original shrinkwrap.

NY, Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., ©1976. Hard Cover. xi, 527 p.; 24 cm. The head of the New York Times Moscow bureau, Smith conveys "to readers the human quotient, the texture and fabric of the personal lives of the Russians as people." ISBN (10): 0812905210. Stock#46948. Good+ /Book club /no dj.

Moscow, Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1955. Hard Cover. 886 p., illus., portraits, folding maps; 26.5 cm. In Cyrillic Russian. The first volume of this six-volume set on St. Petersburg / Leningrad. VG; dj good+. {Pollard} Stock#27615.

Moskva, Khudozh. lit-ra, 1979. Hard Cover. Vol. 1: Beregite solntse, kn. 1, Ochen khochetsia zhit; kn. 2, Beregite solntse; Vol. 2, Spokoinykh ne budet, kn. 1, Rassudite nas, liudi; kn. 2, Spokoinykh ne budet. 25765. Two volumes: 590, 464 p., illus., 21 cm.; Vg/ ex university library, dup.