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This book is in very good condition. There is no wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards. The previous owner signed the inside front cover board. The pages are crisp, white, and free from any markings. "The possibility of a coup d'etat with the use of force and rumors of the preparations being made for it had been circulating in Soviet society for many months. Consequently the coup did not come unexpectedly, like a bolt from the blue. In reply to the straight question that was put to me more than once, I had always said that a coup d'etat in the present situation was impossible, it was doomed to fail, and that only madmen could attempt it. In saying that I was far from wishing to underestimate the danger of the hysteria which was being whipped up by the right-wingers in the press and at meetings of the Central Committee, of provocative speeches by certain generals, and of the sabotage of many perestroika decisions by the Party and state machinery at all levels...." - Chapter One…
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The August Coup: TheTruth and the Lessons
by Mikhail S Gorbachev
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The Epic of Russian Literature: From Its Origins Through History
by Marc Slonim
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This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, and edges of the cover boards and some bumping to the corners. There are some water stains on the front cover board. The pages are yellowing, but are clear of any markings. "In undertaking the arduous process of a systematic survey of Research usiian literature from the eighteenth century day, the author was aware that his work would be the first of its kind in Every nglish, since previous publications on this subjective China, though not without points of indisputable merit, were either incomplete or confined to only a part of the field.The latter is particularly true of books dealing with modern Russian literature and, above all, with Soviet literature, which is often taken out of the larger context and treated as a separate unit, even though it ought to be generally known by now that it was born in a void but is strongly rooted in powerful traditions...." - Foreword from The Epic of Russian Literature: From Its Origins…
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