Soviet Military Power: An Assessment of the Threat, 1988
Washington, DC: GPO, 1988. Quarto, 175, illus. (many in color), maps, figures, tables, index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1988. Quarto, 175, illus. (many in color), maps, figures, tables, index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Quarto, 175, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Figures. Tables. Index. Covers somewhat soiled and worn, small rough spot on front cover. Soviet Military Power was a publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the significant military capabilities of the Soviet Armed Forces. First published in early October, 1981, it became an annual publication from 1983 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In addition to the majority English version, Soviet Military Power was translated, printed, and disseminated in a variety of languages. The report was produced annually by intelligence analysts and subject matter experts at DIA, incorporating all sources of intelligence from across the U.S. Intelligence Community. . To illustrate the publication without revealing classified U.S. satellite imagery and sensor capabilities, DIA artists prepared approximately 150 detailed paintings of Soviet military hardware and installations specifically for the publication. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Quarto, 159, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Figures. Tables. Glossary. Index. Soviet Military Power was a publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the significant military capabilities of the Soviet Armed Forces. First published in early October, 1981, it became an annual publication from 1983 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In addition to the majority English version, Soviet Military Power was translated, printed, and disseminated in a variety of languages. The report was produced annually by intelligence analysts and subject matter experts at DIA, incorporating all sources of intelligence from across the U.S. Intelligence Community. . To illustrate the publication without revealing classified U.S. satellite imagery and sensor capabilities, DIA artists prepared approximately 150 detailed paintings of Soviet military hardware and installations specifically for the publication. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1991. Sixth Edition. 189, wraps, illus., Guidance for Readers mass produced letter laid in, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1990. 23 cm, 338, wraps, illus., some wear, soiling, and creases to covers, slight waviness to document. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1991. Sixth Edition. 28 cm, 189, wraps, illus., pencil erasure residue on title page, Guidance for Readers mass produced letter laid in This edition notes great changes in the Soviet Union and Russia. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1991. 24 cm, 208, wraps, map, mailing label on rear page, ink name on front page, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 302, acid-free paper, "P" stamped on top edge, slight wear to DJ edges, some sticker residue on rear DJ. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 163, wraps, illus., notes, index, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. First Paperbk? Edition. First? Printing. 230, wraps, footnotes, chronology, bibliography, covers slightly worn and soiled, some edge soiling. More
New York: The Free Press, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 429, [3] pages. Index. Inscribed by the author. George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning conservative political commentator. Will writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America". Will once proposed that the United States withdraw all troops from Afghanistan, and defended Barack Obama's response to the uprisings after the 2009 elections in Iran. He also criticized the Bush administration for engaging in warrantless surveillance, and supported trials for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. On immigration, Will supports tighter border security and a "path to citizenship" for illegal immigrants. Will argued that the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision caused a "truncation of democratic debate about abortion policy." Additionally, Will is generally skeptical of affirmative action programs. Will favors the legalization of drugs. Will supports low taxes, as he thinks that they stimulate economic growth. He was opposed to both George W. Bush and Barack Obama's stimulus plans. Will supports abolishing the minimum wage and creating voluntary personal retirement accounts in order to reduce the federal cost of Social Security. In February 2013, Will wrote in support of a proposal by "relentlessly liberal" Sherrod Brown to break up consolidated banks and finance industry conglomerates, ending "too big to fail" by restoring the Glass-Steagall Act. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. English Language edition, Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xvii, [1], 254 pages. Abbreviations. Notes. Index. Foreword by Paul Hollander. Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev (2 December 1923 ? 18 October 2005) was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian. A member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union throughout the 1980s, he was termed the "godfather of glasnost", and was the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev's reform program of glasnost and perestroika. Yakovlev served as a platoon commander of a marine brigade during World War II, and became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union following the war. During the rule of Nikita Khrushchev, he studied abroad as part of the Fulbright Program, returning in 1960. Under Leonid Brezhnev, he became Deputy Head of Agitprop and was placed in charge of a group on creating the 1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union. He was later ambassador to Canada, in response to his opposition to ethnic nationalism within the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, Yakovlev returned to the Soviet Union, and became a prominent supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev's proposed reforms. In response to his perceived importance in the reforms, he came under attack from hardliners such as Alexander Lebed and Gennady Zyuganov, eventually resigning two days prior to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt. During the coup attempt, Yakovlev was a supporter of pro-democratic forces, and later became a supporter of Boris Yeltsin before turning against his successor, Vladimir Putin, in response to democratic backsliding which occurred during Putin's presidency. More
New York: Random House, 1993. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [5], 300, [2] pages. Maps. Notes. Index. Signed by Yergin on fep. Front corner dinged on board and on DJ. Date stamped on top edge. Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy that is now part of IHS Markit Inc. He is best known as author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991) and The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (2011). He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. From 1978 through 1980, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Business School and, until 1985, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) in 1982. In 2004, CERA was acquired by the information company IHS Inc., of which he is now vice chairman. In December 2016, Yergin joined a business forum assembled by then president-elect Donald Trump to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues. More
New York: Random House, 1993. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [5], 300, [2] pages. Maps. Notes. Index. Signed by Yergin and Gustafson on fep. Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). He is best known as author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power and The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. From 1978 through 1980, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Business School and, until 1985, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In December 2016, Yergin joined a business forum assembled by then president-elect Donald Trump to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues. More
New York, NY: Random House, 1995. First U. S. Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [14], 415, [3] pages. Glossary. Signed on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Yevgény Aleksándrovich Yevtushénko (Russian: ;[1] 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017)[2][3] was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films. After October 2007 Yevtushenko divided his time between Russia and the United States, teaching Russian and European poetry and the history of world cinema at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and at Queens College of the City University of New York. In the West he was best known for his criticism of the Soviet bureaucracy and appeals for getting rid of the legacy of Stalin. He was working on a three-volume collection of 11th to 20th-century Russian poetry, and planned a novel based on his time in Havana during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 2007, he was an artist-in-residence with the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park, and recited his poem Babi Yar before a performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, which sets five of his poems. The first performance of the two works on the same program that Shostakovich set to Yevtushenko texts, "Babi Yar" (Symphony 13) and "The Execution of Stepan Razin," with Yevtushenko present, took place at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music in 1998. The first translation of Yevtushenko's poetry into English was Yevtushenko: Selected Poems, by Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (1962). More