History: Russia And Soviet Union from The Owl at the Bridge

Vernadsky updated his history to reflect changing situations and attitudes, presumably based on his revised lectures at Yale. His observations are always interesting. This third edition takes into account the Soviet / Russian experience in World War II and the early years of the Cold War. ix, [2], 533 pages, 3 maps, 21 cm. Owner name on front… Read more about this item

Moskva, MIR [1910?]-1912. First Edition. Hard Cover. Four volumes: (1) 259, 56, [3], 7 p.; (2) 306, 49 p.; (3) [4], 232, 72 p.; (4) [4], 337 p.; illus., map; 23 cm. Volumes 1 & 2 undated; 3, 1911; 4, 1912. "A Bolshevik since 1905, Pokrovsky emphasized Marxist theory and the brutality of the upper classes in his Russian… Read more about this item

Izdanie [Moskva] Obrazovanie 1919. Soft Cover. 44 pp. + 8 plates; 26.5 cm. Series: Kul'turnyja SokroviÅ¡ča Rossii 15. Guide to the architecture of Velikiy Ustyug. In Russian. Stock#47255. Vg,on poor paper / soft cover.

Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1980. Hard Cover. Folio; 192 p., color facsimiles; 36 cm. Text in Russian & English. The Russian-Tartar Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 is an epic story of Russian history. This facsimile, of an illuminated manuscript of the XVI century, contains the Old Russian text; a modern Russian translation by O. P. Likhacheva; and an English… Read more about this item

Moskva, Alʹtman, 1958. On the recently deceased Anna Mikhaĭlovna Pankratova, 1897-1957, and the Russian working class. Includes bibliographies. Hard Cover. 795 pages, portrait, facsimile; 26.5 cm. Vg. Stock#43254 (Pollard).

N.Y., Boni & Liveright, 1920. Hard Cover. ix, 237 p., illus. (ports.), 21.5 cm. An impressionistic survey of the Russian czars. Stock# 101,834. Good, covers soiled, frayed/ no dj.

Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1950. Hard Cover. xv, 314 p. 23.5 cm. Written before the use of psychiatric hospitals to hold dissidents was an issue, this deals with aspects such as The Material Origin of Mental Process and the Application of Dialectic Materialism to Psychiatry particular to the Soviets. Stock# 30,179. Good+/ dj poor, entire spine gone.

Princeton UP, 1976. Hard Cover. x, 337 p., 31 tables, 6 graphs, 11 maps, 24 cm. "About the development of cities in Russia and of pre-modern societies in general." The concepts, structure and language are of a sociologist. Vg, ex-library but no one used it; no dj. 101699.

London, Thames & Hudson, 1986.. Hard Cover. The 82 illustrations are watercolors of considerable skill. ”Here are the country estates, the large families indulging in various sports and pastimes, the observance of Easter and Christmas, the heat of the summer, the frost of the winter.” Stock #26374. Vg/vg. Russian History; biography; Aristocracy.

Moskva : Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1955. Hard Cover. 513, [3] p., 20.5 cm.v. 2. Diletantizm v nauke : pis'ma ob izuchenii prirody stat'i i fel'etony 1842-1846. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,331. Vg / no dj.

Modern Library [copyright 1935]. Hard Cover. xxiv, 371 p. Reed reported on events in Russia and was caught up in the October 1917 Revolution. His enthusiasm for Bolsheviks and the Communist cause grew; he died covering the fighting of the Red Army. Stock#25003. Vg/ no dj.

Moskva, Nauka, 1969.. Hard Cover. 422 p. 20.5 cm. At head of title: Akademiëiìa nauk SSSR. Institut istorii SSSR. E. L. Rudniëtìskaëiìa. Ogarev was Herzen's collaborator at the Kolokol (the Bell). Includes bibliographical references. Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,327. Vg / dj good+.

Moskva: Izd-vo. Hard Cover. 462, [2] p., 26.5 cm. Twenty-nine essays on the revolutionary activities of Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky 1828-1889, and his circle. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,346. Vg / no dj.

Paris, Lavillette, 1792. First Edition. Hard Cover. iv, [7] - 248 pages; 17 cm. Chapters: Tableau esquisse de la fermentation qui agite actuellement l'Empire Ottoman, la Russie & la Pologne; Commerce de Russie; Maree de la mer Germanique; Palais imp de la Haye le lundi cinq Septembre 1735; Anecdotes sur M. de Richelieu. Rulhières was "a knight of St.… Read more about this item

[Leningrad] Gos. izd-vo polit. lit-ry, 1946. "The last of the Russian Intelligensia", Likhachev wrote of the Russian Soul in its formative years of a developing culture. Bibliography: pages 158-[160]. In Cyrillic Russian. Soft Cover. 159 pages, illus.; 19 cm. Good+, covers soiled. Stock#43283 (Pollard).

Moskva : Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1961. Hard Cover. 765, [3] p., port., indexes, 20.5 cm. At head of title: Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut istorii. Bibliography (p. 728-[731]). "Khronologicheskii spisok pechatnykh B. P. Kozmina": (p. 732-[750]). Errata slip tipped in at end. (Pollard). Stock# 43,250. Vg / no dj.

New York, Time, inc., c1961.. Hard Cover. 176 p. illus. (part col.) ports., col. maps (on lining papers) 28 cm. Series: Life World Library. Stock# 40,263.. Vg, illustrated boards.

St. Petersburg, Tip. M. Merkusheva, 1905-1908. In Cyrillic Russian. Literary essays on Russian intellectual life in the 19th century. Soft Cover. Two volumes: iv, 339; iv, 211, 62 pages; 19.5 cm. Printed paper covers, spine of vol. 1 clumsily rebacked. From the library of Alan Pollard. Stock#27639/h.

Moskva. Hard Cover. 399 p., 17 leaves of illus.; 20.5 cm. Series : Zhizn' zamechatel'nykh liudei. Seriia biografii, vyp. 1 (477). At head of title: N. Pirumova. Biography of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, 1814-1876, a history of Russian anarchism. Bibliography: p. 397-[398]. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard). Stock# 43,338. Vg, flimsy binding.

Moskva: Gosizdat, 1926.. Hard Cover. iv, 483 p., 23.5 cm. A history of the Decembrists, the officers's uprising of 1826. At head of title: Tsentrarkhiv. In Cyrillic Russian. (Pollard) Stock#43,349. Vg, original paper wrappers bound in blue cloth.