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Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. First ed., first printing (full number line). Hardcover. About near fine in fine jacket. A few board corner tips gently bumped, and a few leaves slightly curved. Please see photos. Jacket now in archival mylar sleeve./fine. Quarto in white pictorial jacket; viii, 427 pages : illustrations; bibliographical references and index.; 24 cm. "If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or '30s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia Mickenberg uncovers in 'American Girls in Red Russia', there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators,… Read More

Moskva: Partiinoe izd-vo, 1932. First edition (presumed). Paperback. Wrappers partly age-worn ; text block browned as usual with such paperstock; else Very Good(+). Small octavo in off-white illus wraps; 93 p. illus. 18 cm. In Russian. // Scarce work on Russian naval presence in East Asia and the Pacific. Russian relations with Japan, China, Manchuria.

Wien, Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1934. First edition (presumed). Paperback. Covers gently soiled and edge-worn else a Fine unopened copy. As New.. Octavo in off-white wrappers; vii, [1], 183, [1] p. 24 cm. Soviet Union -- Nationality. // "Anhang: Eine Statistische übersicht, der autonomen Nationalitäten der Sowjetunion": p. 181-[184]./ "Eine Literarische Musterung der Nationalitäten": p. 52-54.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Very fine in very fine jacket. As new./as new. Quarto in black jacket illus in b&w; xviii, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.; bibliographical references and indexes. Translated from the Russian. "The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a thorough historical study of this unique and tragic episode in Soviet history. This book presents the first comprehensive, historically accurate account of the camp system. Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk has mined the contents of extensive archives, including long-suppressed state and Communist Party documents, to uncover the secrets of the Gulag and how it became a central component of Soviet ideology and social policy." — Publisher. Contents:… Read More

Sankt Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Tip. Imp. Akademii Nauk, 1892. First edition (presumed). Paperback. Near Fine. Volumes 2 & 4 only (of 4); Quarto in printed wraps; 428 & 488p, index (vol IV). A history of Russian Ethnography. SCARCE. In Russian. // Ethnology -- Study and teaching -- Russia. Pypin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich (1833-1904).

[Vevey, Suisse]: Table ronde, 1947. First printing. Paperback. Wrappers very mildly soiled; else VG+ to Near Fine.. Octavo in self-wrappers; xvi, 219 p. p., 20 cm. 8vo in self-wrappers; xvi, 219 p. p., 20 cm. Topics: Russion, Soviet Union -- Description and travel. Voyages. Exlporation. Text in French. Uncommon.

Boston: R.G. Badger, 1920. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, lightly sunned spine, extremely gentle bumping to front board-rear corner, faint soiling to front free endpaper, front free endpaper, next 2 blank front endpapers, page 126, and page 126 plate, faint soiling to title page, light soiling to boards and fore-edges, else overall a crisp near fine to very good(++). A desirable copy.. Red octavo, deckled edges, 1 preliminary leaf, 5-191 pages, b&w frontispiece, plates, 22 cm. Lacking DJ. || Russia -- Description and travel.Politics, History. Soviet Union, U.S.S.R.