Take Me to Russia and Central Asian Republics of the Soviet Union
by Simpson Colin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1964. 513 pp, 112 photographs, 15 as colour plates, signed by the author on the half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This is not just a travel book, nor is it just Russia or Russia Now. It is a revelation of the Communist Way, the Other Way in this divided world. It is a journey in understanding, via not only Leningrad and Moscow, Kiev and such cities of Soviet Asia as Bukhara, Alma-Ata and - Samarkand, but via the extraordinary essential history, via the Men from Hell - the Tartars, via the Czars of all the Russias (terrible Ivan, giant Peter, Catherine, the idiots), via Karl Marx, Rasputin, the Revolutions, Lenin (the real Lenin), Stalin (his evil documented). Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- RSM BOOKS (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17811
- Title
- Take Me to Russia and Central Asian Republics of the Soviet Union
- Author
- Simpson Colin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Travel Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books; Culture;
- Size
- 8vo
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