![Item #2353229 Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - An Oral History [Second Hand]. Svetlana...](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2353229.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778791587)
New York, N.Y. Random House, 2016. 8th Printing. Hard Cover.
8th printing. Slight wear to top jacket edge, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
468 pp. Translated into English by Bela Shayevich. Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. When the Swedish.....
St. Petersburg: Ego Publishers, 1994. Bogdanov, Leonid; Rakhmilevich, Liubov. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket lightly toned.
240 pp. Illustrated with many illustrations in color. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia (18 August 1819 - 21 February 1876) was a daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and sister.....
![Item #2314599 Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair [May Day]. Michael R. Beschloss](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2314599.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761152692)
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Owner bookplate and sticker remnant on front endpapers. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xvi, 494 pp. "Uncovers the story of Francis Gary Powers's flight in a CIA U-2 spy plane into Soviet airspace two.....
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Two light scratches on rear board, otherwise an excellent copy.
xiv, [2], 239 pp. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index follow text. Charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation and the returning Soviet rulers' efforts.....
. Karic Foundation, 2003. Bosnic, Dragan. Large Hardcover.
An exceptional copy.
149 pp. "A beautiful photographic expose of the eastern European land of Serbia."
New York: The Dial Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears, jacket spine faded, front joint weakening.
xxv, 235 pp. Introduction by George Steiner, translated by Ann Dunnigan. When Bulgakov, a young Moscow philosophy student, joined the Tolstoy household at Yasnaya.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('for Michael + Irene Morris, with best wishes, Bryan Cartledge, 20.10.11'). An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xvi, [8], 604 pp. Color and black-and-white.....
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2023. First Edition. Hard Cover.
New. First edition. An exceptional copy.
239 pp. With 38 illustrations. A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world. In the first collection.....
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Small tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel.
xix, 218 pp. "How the letter was forged by a group of reckless Russian emigres in Berlin. How it was planted in the European intelligence network. How.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly toned.
xviii, [4], 312 pp. 8vo. Genealogical table, black-and-white photographs. "After the Bolshevik murder of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and other members of the Russian royal family in 1918, what became of the Romanov jewels.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A couple sprung gatherings, but all still holding firmly, boards a bit rubbed.
390, [2] pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes frontispiece and three plates. Perry McDonough Collins was the first American to journey through Siberia and.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xv, 544 pp. With black-and-white illustrations. In narrative history format, a historian explores the famous Vienna Congress that took place in Europe in 1815.....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1979. Duncan, David Douglas. Large Softcover.
Bottom corner of front wrapper creased, wrappers lightly toned.
139 pp. This enormous volume features full-color photography of art rarely seen in the West. From one of the most extensive - yet hidden - collections in Europe comes this.....
Boston: Gambit, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light edge wear.
286 pp. A 1971 work examining the rise of the USSR as a sea power, with a complete list of the military-grade vessels that were part of the Russian navy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine base lightly bumped.
x, 305 pp. One of the world's preeminent historians, Marc Ferro is a leading member of the Annales School of France and a recognized authority on early twentieth-century European history. For well over.....
New York: Basic Books, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing. Minimal wear to corners.
xviii, 297 pp. Maps precede text, two sections of black-and-white photographs. When it comes to the Balkans, most people quickly become lost in the quagmire of struggle and intractable hatred that consumes that ancient.....
New York: Vintage Books, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Top edge lightly stained, edge wear.
xxi, 380 pp. When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A......
New York: The Declan X. McMullen Company, 1947. Hard Cover.
Signed by author without inscription on title page. Lacks jacket. Front board edges stained, boards lightly soiled.
viii, 208 pp. Discussion of the Byzantine-Slavonic Rite, Russian Chrisitianity and the schism, American Catholicism, etc. Extensive bibliography and index follow text.
London: Osprey, 1987. Fosten, Bryan. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Minor general wear.
48 pp. During the Napoleonic era, Russia possessed a vast force of cavalry, forming a greater percentage than that of most European armies. This stemmed partly from their service against the Turks, who had huge numbers.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light stain along bottom jacket edge, edges foxed.
367 pp. Correspondence between the Russian ballet dancer and English economist traces the development of their relationship.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. Gilkes, John. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Minimal wear to corners, faint smudges on bottom edge. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xxviii, 548 pp. Maps by John Gilkes. Includes chronology, notes and index. The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1991. Large Hardcover.
Vintage Russian postcard laid in. Jacket spine base rubbed.
310 pp. Includes 307 duotone illustrations. Four distinguished Soviet historians evoke the daily life of St. Petersburg just at the point--1890 to 1914--when it was witnessing the last moments of its.....
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small tears and small creases, bottom edge of front jacket panel bumped.
367 pp. Leonid Brezhnev's death occasions a battle for power that erupts into rebellion, assassinations, and open warfare that destroys the.....
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1983. Stapled Binding.
Front wrapper very faintly foxed along fore edge.
iii, 57 pp. Includes: Preface; Introduction; Soviet Symbology; Programed Instruction: Tactical Formations; The Meeting Engagement; Attack of a Defending Enemy (from the March); Attack of a Defending Enemy (from.....
Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top edge lightly foxed. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
242 pp. Beginning with Brezhnev era, the author follows the course and development of Soviet leadership--examining the elements of continuity as well as change. He zeroes in on.....