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Dramas of the Revolution
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Dramas of the Revolution

by Shatrov, Mikhail

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Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1990, hardcover, 400 pp, Edition not stated, No previous English-language editions or printings noted, Very Good+ in Good dustjacket, Signed and dated by the Author in the year of publication on the front endpaper, three tiny spots to front endpaper as well, small ink stamp and light dampstain to rear pastedown. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge bumps, dampstain to rear panel and flap, in new Brodart sleeve. Five plays by the Russian dramatist focused on Lenin's role in organizing the Communist Party network, leading the Russian Revolution, and the formation of the Soviet Union. Shatrov's plays about Lenin became the most frequently staged plays in all of the USSR during the reign of Leonid Brezhnev. Contents include five plays: Bolsheviks, The Brest Peace, Blue Horses on Red Grass, Thus Shall We Conquer!, and Onwards...Onwards...Onwards!, as well as an interview with the author 'History is a Factual Drama' and an afterword by Dr. Yuri Sharapov:… Read More
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Sergei Kirov and the Struggle for Soviet Power in the Terek Region, 1917-1918 (Publisher series:...

Sergei Kirov and the Struggle for Soviet Power in the Terek Region, 1917-1918 (Publisher series: Modern European History.)

by King, Richard Douglas

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New York: Garland Publishing [0-8240-8056-4] 1987. (Hardcover) 415pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Revision of thesis (Ph. D.). Map, notes, bibliography. Book about Sergei Mironovich Kirov. Publisher series: Modern European History. Locale: Caucasus--Russia. (History--Russia, History--Russia, Russian Revolution).
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Port Arthur. The siege and capitulation
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Port Arthur. The siege and capitulation

by Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis

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William Blackwood. Edinburgh and London. 1906. Second edition (same year as the first). 8vo. xiv, 511pp. Frontis., 23 plates, 4 maps and plans, two folding in rear pocket. Original cloth, gilt. Faded and rubbed to spine. Hinges tender. Toned, with some spotting. Endpapers browned. Neat inscription to ffep.
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (1881 - 1931) War correspondent. "I joined the Third Army at the commencement of August 1904, just before the first assault, remained attached to General Nogis headquarters until January 17, 1905, and entered the fortress with the victorious Japanese - one of my chief objects to place on record the obsolete method of fighting which characterised the siege - how men meet in masses to settle the disputes of their governments with bayonet, clubbed rifle and hand-grenade".
August 4, 1904 - January 2, 1905, the siege of Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsular of Manchuria was the longest battle of the Russo-Japanese War.
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My experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles.
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My experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles.

by Tretyakov, Lieut.-General N. A.; Alford, A. C., transl. & Baker, F. Nolan, ed.

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Hugh Rees. London. 1911. First English edition. xvi, 304pp. Photo frontis., 31 further plates, 2 trench plates, 6 folding maps. Original cloth, gilt. Bumped and rubbed to extremities. Occasional minor spotting.

Nikolai A. Tretyakov (1854-1917) Military Engineer and General in the Imperial Russian Army, commanding the Fifth East Siberian Rifles during the Battle of Nan Shan and the siege of Port Arthur. "Heroic".

August 4, 1904 - January 2, 1905, the siege of Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsular of Manchuria was the longest battle of the Russo-Japanese War.
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Rußlands soziale Zustände. Aus dem Russischen
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Rußlands soziale Zustände. Aus dem Russischen

by Herzen, Alexander

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Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1854 Book. Good. Hardcover. [iv], 247, [1] pages. Re-bound in cloth, retains the original paper front cover which is very soiled and marked, it also has a small hole and s paper repair to the uper inner corner. The rear cover is not present. Browning and spotting throughout, sometimes heavily. Pages from 220 onwards are stained. The final blank page is very browned and stained..
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V.I. Surikov (Russian Edition)
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V.I. Surikov (Russian Edition)

by N. G Mashkovtsev

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Iskusstvo, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Very good condition. Russian edition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows slight shelf wear. Slight scuffing on the edges and corners of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Carte des parties Nord et est de L'Asie; qui Comprend les Cotes de la Russie Asiatique le...
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Carte des parties Nord et est de L'Asie; qui Comprend les Cotes de la Russie Asiatique le Kamschatka, le Jesso, et les Isles du Japon | dessie en 1764 par M*** | novelle edition reduite par M de Vaugoundy | 1772 Suppl 2 Carte

by Vaugondy, Didier Robert de

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Livourne, France: Didier Robert de Vaugoundy, 1777. Very Good. Folio, [12.5x14.25in neat lines, 17.25x21in sheet]; Title in top center with four inset maps labeled I- Partie Nord-ouest de l'Amerique, II- Nonvelle Grenade, III- Region des Conibas et pays voisins, IV- Extremites de la partie occidentale de la Californie; map covers a large area from 25 to 80 North latitude, Norway to Alaska, and 20 east to 155 west longitude China to the Arctic Circle; Copper engraving on heavy watermarked paper with pictorial relief with mountains, forests and major rivers with location grid and names, both mythical, real and related to present day; Little age toning and small spots, close -tear at bottom edge, single vertical crease fold, top right margin "Suppl 2 Carte", lower left "181-182" and right "R.S" [Wagner maps 637]. This map was one of a 10 map series for the Supplement to Diderot's "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" published in 1777. From Rumsey, "This… Read More
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We Follow the Road Shown by Great Lenin

We Follow the Road Shown by Great Lenin: Lenin in the Arts of Soviet Ukraine

by Vladych, L.V.

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Hardcover. 178 pp.Kiev: Politvidav Ukraini Publishers, Ukraine (1985). First Edition. First Printing. Bright, clean, unmarked copy. Front panel bottom has several small ripples of delamination. Bilingual. Color illustrations of Communist Party propaganda posters, slogans, and poetry. Very Good to Near Fine. No DJ as issued. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, with a packing slip.
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The General Theory of Law

The General Theory of Law

by Jawitsch, L.S.

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Moscow USSR, Progress Publishers, 1981, hardcover, 293 pp, First edition in English translation, First printing stated, Very Good+ in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine roll, heel of spine lightly bumped. Dustjacket, rubs, light edge nicks, short closed edge tears, sticker lift to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. An overview of the theories of law in the former Soviet Union. Chapter headings include; Class Society and Law, The Essence of Law, Objective Law, Subjective Law (Right), The Execution of Law, Law Breaking.
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Mes Vingt-Six Prisons et Mon Evasion de Solovki (My twenty-six 26 prisons and my escape from...
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Mes Vingt-Six Prisons et Mon Evasion de Solovki (My twenty-six 26 prisons and my escape from Solovetski) - Traduit du Russe par E. Semenoff avec 9 illustrations hors texte et 4 Cartes French language 1st Edition

by Youri BEZSONOV / Yuri BESSONOV / E. SEMENOFF (Translator)

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French language 1st Edition (precedes the English language translation of 1929). 282pp + 8 photographic plates (containing 9 illustrations) + 4 maps - all collated and present. Good+ condition - light foxing, slant to the text block and minor edge wear / corner curl. No inscriptions. Better than this description sounds. A superior survival of a rare book.One time Captain in the Caucasian Divisional Cavalry, "The Savage Division". Charged for anti-revolutionary activities in the Russian revolution. Established in 1923 on a stunning archipelago close to the Arctic Circle, which had hosted one of the most prestigious monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Fifteenth century, the camp of the Solovki was created in order to solve one of the many problems for the newborn Soviet state. Prisoners, arrested in an ever increasing number since 1917, were being kept in improvised prisons. The Sovnarkom decided to create a Special Purpose Camp on the Solovki islands, on the model of already… Read More
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Etudes de Philologie et de critique. Deuxieme edition revue, corrigee et augmentee d'un morceau...
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Etudes de Philologie et de critique. Deuxieme edition revue, corrigee et augmentee d'un morceau inedit.

by OUVAROFF, [Sergei Semenovich Uvarov, graf] (1786-1855).

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Paris:: Firmin-Didot freres, 1844., 1844. 8vo. vi, [2], 415, [1] pp. Light foxing. Contemporary quarter dark green morocco, gilt-stamped spine, marbled boards; a hint of rubbing to extremities. Very good. Second edition. The author, an Imperial Russian classical scholar, best remembered as an influential imperial statesman under Nicholas I of Russia.
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Operation Keelhaul: The Story of Forced Repatriation from 1944 to the Present
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Operation Keelhaul: The Story of Forced Repatriation from 1944 to the Present

by Epstein, Julius

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Old Greenwich CT, The Devin Adair Company, 1974, hardcover, xiv-255 pp, Second Printing stated, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, tiny edge chip to front flap, darkened area to rear panel, spine slightly faded, in new Brodart sleeve. The surprisingly little-known story of numerous Russian and Eastern European POWs, defectors, and escapees who were repatriated to the Soviet Union against their will by the American and European governments in contravention of international law at the end of WWII. Illustrated with 16 black-&-white plates. Six Appendices from Original Sources plus Footnotes, Bibliography, and Index. Introduction by Bertram D. Wolfe. ISBN 9780815964070
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Lenin

Lenin

by Leon Trotzky (Trotsky)

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New York, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1925. RARE. Authorized Translation (translator not named). This is the original first edition from 1925 (not a reproduction). No dj. Copyright, 1925, by Minton, Balch & Company. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards. Multiple ownership stamps and names inside both front and back covers. Binding split at back board and after flyleaf in the front but binding remains attached. Occasional underlining and staining throughout. Exterior shows its age. Spine is sunned; covers and all edges and corners are rubbed; all corners lightly bumped; some staining to spine. Despite all this, it is still an interesting solid copy of a very, very scarce title.
According to the Trotsky Internet Archive, "This book is very rare and, to our knowledge, been published only once, by Blue Ribbon Books, a now defunct New York publishing house, in 1925. The translator remains unknown although the title page of the book indicates that this is an 'authorized translation'. By whom, we don't now know.… Read More
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Siberia's Untouched Treasure: Its Future Role in the World (1923) First Edition With Dust Jacket
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Siberia's Untouched Treasure: Its Future Role in the World (1923) First Edition With Dust Jacket

by C. G. Fairfax Channing

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G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Collectible first edition of C. G. Fairfax Channing's landmark study of post-WWI, post-Revolution Bolshevik Siberia. Numerous topics addressed, including the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the political climate, the AEF in Siberia, conflicts with Bolsheviks, prison camps, Cossack bandits, coal and gold mining, logging, agriculture and much more. Includes 82 full-page historical photos with a tissue-guarded frontis photo and 15 full-page maps, one a fold-out. Part I: Behind the Scenes of the World's Great Playhouse; Part II: The Daily Experiences in the Darkest Hours of the History-Making Upheaval; Part III: Where Siberia's Wealth Is Actually Found. Also includes 3 appendices with supplemental content and a detailed index. Bound in dark-green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine panels. Complete as issued. 475 pp. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4". Tight, unmarked copy with near crisp extremities, fresh board cloth and bright… Read More
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Il-2 Shturmovik
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Il-2 Shturmovik

by Viktor Povinsky

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You get one Il-2 Shturmovik by Viktor Povinsky 2014 softcover book published by MMP Books in Poland. This item is in English. The UPC / ISBN numbers are 9788363678371 / 8363678376. This book is in good condition with some wear to its covers and edges. The binding is tight and the pages are clean and intact. This item is 11.75 inches tall by 8.25 inches wide. These measurements are approximations to give you an idea of the size of the book. Please see all pictures.
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