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The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History)
Miller, Martin. (editor)
Book Number: 66690
ISBN: 0631216391
Publisher: Blackwell, USA 2001.
8vo. softcover. 288pp. index. Solid copy with some highlighting.
Price: $12.00

Rasputin: The Last Word
Radzinsky, Edvard
Book Number: 66543
ISBN: 9780753810804
Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2000
8vo softcover 682pp index, b/w illus. very good, toning to page edges. Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, Russian peasant, monk and mystic, exercised extraordinary and malign power over the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia and their haemophiliac son. His drunkenness, sexual excesses and nepotism - not to mention rumours that he was a German agent - led to his murder by a group of noblemen in December 1916. Mad monk or mystic, sham or shaman, few figures from contemporary history have captured the imagination like Rasputin. The enormous influence that this half-literate priest exerted over Tsarina Alexandra is one of history''s great enigmas; one which the author of this text sets out to unravel. Edvard Radzinsky gained access to a range of hitherto undiscovered material, in particular the proceedings of a Russian government investigation in 1917 which includes a wealth of interviews with people who had dealings with Rasputin. His murder is described from a new angel, re-examining the various conspiracy theories and describing the moments leading up to the murder against the backdrop of pre-Revolution Bacchanalia in the imperial city. nnAbout the AuthornEdvard Radzinsky, is after Chekhov, Russia''s most frequently staged playwright, and his plays have won him international acclaim. A trained historian, Radzinsky spent twenty-five years on research and writing his life of Nicholas II, THE LAST TSAR, which was an international bestseller. His most recent book is a life of Stalin. He is also known in Russia for his work in television, having twice won the TEFI award, most recently for his series on Napoleon.
Price: $12.00

Peter The Great: His Life and World
Massie, Robert K.
Book Number: 66524
ISBN: 0345298063
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York 1981
8vo. softcover. 912pp. b/w illus., maps. Good, page edges toned, owner's name on half-title page, cover faded with lifting laminate.
Price: $12.00

The Real Far East : Way Beyond Siberia
Barrell, Tony
Book Number: 65865
ISBN: 1920769544
Publisher: Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2005.
8vo. softcover. 248pp. b/w ilus. Very good, page edges toned.
Price: $12.00

Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Sullivan, Rosemary
Book Number: 65029
ISBN: 780008135072
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London, 2015.
8vo. softcover. 741pp. index, b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $15.00

The Secret Name: The Soviet Record 1917-1958
Yutang, LIn
Book Number: 62402
ISBN:
Publisher: Heinemann, London, 1959.
8vo. hardcover. 234pp. index. Very good, Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Mission to Tashkent
Bailey F. M.
Book Number: 40936
ISBN:
Publisher: Folio Society
8vo. hardcover. illustrated paper covered boards with cloth spine. 269pp. index, b/w illus. fine. / very good slipcase.
Price: $18.00

I Saw Siberia
Portisch, Hugo
Book Number: 32487
ISBN: 0245504419
Publisher: London Harrap 1972
8vo hardcover 210pp, b/w illus. good, fep clipped / very good d/w. Translation of So sah ich Sibirien.
Price: $12.00

Sibir; My Discovery of Siberia
Mowat, Farley
Book Number: 58523
ISBN: 0771065809
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 313pp. index, endpaper maps. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West
Lucas, Edward
Book Number: 43381
ISBN: 074759578X
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC February 4, 2008
8vo softcover 352pp very good. Putin's Russia silences its critics and bullies its neighbours. The murders of Journalists have sent a grim warning to others who might challenge the regime. The Kremlin uses energy blockades, trade sanctions, cyber-attacks, riots and Soviet-style disinformation against the countries for the former Soviet empire that try to resist its growing influence. It has threatened to target its nuclear missiles on America's allies in Eastern Europe and resumed regular intrusions into NATO airspace. Kremlin companies are stitching up Europe's gas market, striking separate deals with individual countries. it is not only playing divide and rule in Europe, but also sidelining America, its most formidable opponent in the last Cold War.
Price: $15.00

Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
Patneaude, Bertrand M.
Book Number: 48617
ISBN: 9780571228751
Publisher: Faber 2009
8vo. hardcover. 340pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, spine slightly slanted. / very good d/w.
Price: $22.00

The Silver Madonna - The Odyssey of Eugenia Wasilewska
Wasilewska, Eugenia
Book Number: 39318
ISBN: 0049200291
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin 1970 First Edition
8vo. Hardcover with d/w both very good. Maps on end pages. 216pp. dispossessed by Russian's at age seventeen, the author was then sent to Siberia for slave labour. She escaped through the Russo-German battlefields.
Price: $18.00

Askania-Nova, Animal Paradise in Russia; Adventure of the Falz-Fein Family
Heiss, L.
Book Number: 4822
ISBN:
Publisher: The Bodley Head London, 1970
8vo. Hardcover. 175pp. + b/w plates. Very good / good, chipped d/w.
Price: $8.00

Catherine The Great: Love, Sex, And Power
Rounding, Virginia
Book Number: 56114
ISBN: 9780312328870
Publisher: St. Martins Press, New York 2006
8vo. hardcover. 566pp. index, colour illus. Very good, remainder dot on bottom edge. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $15.00

Alone Together
Bonner, Elena
Book Number: 4180
ISBN:
Publisher: Collins London 1986
large 8vo. Hardcover. 270pp. Index. B/w plates. Vwery good condition, remainder "star" stamp bottom outside page edges. Very good d/w, with minor wear to top edge. The wife of Andrei Sakharov tells for the first time the harrowing story of their life in exile in the city of Gorky.
Price: $10.00

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
Figes, Orlando
Book Number: 56112
ISBN: 9781846144882
Publisher: Allen Lane, London 2012
8vo. hardcover. 334pp. colour ilus. Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $15.00

Ivan the Terrible
Payne, Robert
Book Number: 41181
ISBN: 0690005822
Publisher: Crowell 1975
8vo hardcover 502pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w with small tear top front edge. This definitive biography offers abundant details on the life of Russian Czar Ivan IV, including his violent moodswings and his callous cruelty.
Price: $12.00

Rasputin: The Last Word
Radzinsky, Edvard
Book Number: 40765
ISBN: 1865081930
Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2000
8vo hardcover 524pp index, b/w illus. very good+. / Good+ d/w creased on top edge with smal tears at top of spine. Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, Russian peasant, monk and mystic, exercised extraordinary and malign power over the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia and their haemophiliac son. His drunkenness, sexual excesses and nepotism - not to mention rumours that he was a German agent - led to his murder by a group of noblemen in December 1916. Mad monk or mystic, sham or shaman, few figures from contemporary history have captured the imagination like Rasputin. The enormous influence that this half-literate priest exerted over Tsarina Alexandra is one of history's great enigmas; one which the author of this text sets out to unravel. Edvard Radzinsky gained access to a range of hitherto undiscovered material, in particular the proceedings of a Russian government investigation in 1917 which includes a wealth of interviews with people who had dealings with Rasputin. His murder is described from a new angel, re-examining the various conspiracy theories and describing the moments leading up to the murder against the backdrop of pre-Revolution Bacchanalia in the imperial city. nnAbout the AuthornEdvard Radzinsky, is after Chekhov, Russia's most frequently staged playwright, and his plays have won him international acclaim. A trained historian, Radzinsky spent twenty-five years on research and writing his life of Nicholas II, THE LAST TSAR, which was an international bestseller. His most recent book is a life of Stalin. He is also known in Russia for his work in television, having twice won the TEFI award, most recently for his series on Napoleon.
Price: $12.00

The Andropov file : the life and ideas of Yuri V. Andropov, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Ebon, Martin.
Book Number: 29748
ISBN: 0070188610
Publisher: New York McGraw-Hill 1983
8vo hardcover 284pp index. very good / very good d/w. Bibliography: p. 279-280.
Price: $10.00

Sakharov Speaks
Sakharov, Andrei D
Book Number: 29229
ISBN: 0002627558
Publisher: London Collins : Harvill Press 1974
8vo hardcover 245pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Justice in Moscow
Feifer, George
Book Number: 26287
ISBN:
Publisher: London Bodley Head 1964. first edition
8vo. hardcover 353pp very good. / good d/w with insect eaten front edges, ' ' '
Price: $10.00

Midnight Diaries
Yeltsin, Boris; translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
Book Number: 6370
ISBN: 0297646788
Publisher: London. Weidenfield & Nicholson. 2000
8vo. hardcover. 398pp. index. + b/w plates. fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $18.00

Two lives, one Russia
Daniloff, Nicholas
Book Number: 29211
ISBN: 0395446015
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin 1988
8vo hardcover 307pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. A detailed account of Daniloff's five-year search for his Russian heritage and arrest and imprisonment by the KGB in the fall of 1988.
Price: $12.00