Russia and History's Turning Point
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965. First Edition. 558, illus., footnotes, index, discolor inside boards & flyleaves, DJ soiled: small tears, sm pieces missing, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965. First Edition. 558, illus., footnotes, index, discolor inside boards & flyleaves, DJ soiled: small tears, sm pieces missing, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 144, illus., sources. More
New York: Carol Pub. Group, c1994. Second Printing. 24 cm, 431, illus. More
Warsaw: Vidavnitstvo "Skhid" 1937. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 204, fold-out map, footnotes, chronology, errata, text has darkened, weakness to boards, board corners worn. Text is in Ukrainian. More
New York: International Publishers, 1930. First U.S.? Edition. 213, footnotes, notes, boards worn, rear board stained and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Horizon Press, [1962]. 22 cm, 93, wraps, illus., top of spine torn. More
Paris: "Grad Kitezh" n.d. 176, wraps, some pages uncut, text has darkened, some weakness to covers, tears at spine & sm pieces missing, small chips to covers. More
New York: Clarendon, Oxford University Press, 1986. Reprinted with corrections (new as paperback) 1986. Trade paperback. xxxv, [1], 514, [10] pages. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Ink notation on half-title page. Very scarce. Preferred edition due to corrections. Preface to First Edition, Foreword, Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations; Prologue; Epilogue; Notes; Appendix A: Chronology; Appendix B: Biographical Notes; and Appendix C: Deaths Attributable to the Chekas. Also includes Bibliography and Index Includes chapters on The Origin and Foundation of the Vecheka; Organizational Development, Phase 1: Improvisation; Lenin, the Lars, Terror, an Revolutionary Justice; The Left Socialist Revolutionary Rising; Organizational Development, Phase II: Consolidation; The Red Terror Erupts; State within State: Vecheka versus NKVD and Judiciary; The Party, Lenin, and the Vecheka; Revolutionary Justice: The Machinery of Repression; Organizational Development, Phase III: Proliferation; Vecheka Versatility under Dzerzhinsky; Dzerzhinsky and His Chekists; Combating Conspiracies; Civil Liberties, Socialist Opposition, and Peasant Rebellion; and From Vecheka to GPU. More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, [1970]. First Printing. 21 cm, 259, illus., index, yellow highlighting in first third of book (to p. 74), DJ worn, soiled, & some edge tears, bookplate ins fr bd. More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969. Second Revised Edition. Third Printing. 20 cm, 61, boards somewhat worn and soiled, corners slightly bumped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Pantheon Books, [c1968]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 193, bibliographical footnotes, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, some sticker residue to DJ. More
New York: Random House, c1994. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 500, illus., maps, small tear at DJ spine, slight soiling to DJ. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1986. First Printing. 24 cm, 637, illus., maps, bibliography, index, few of the usual library markings, DJ has been pasted to boards. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Paperbk Printing. 637, wraps, illus., maps, notes, sources, index, black line on bottom edge, minor damp staining at bottom of some pages. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 637, illus., endpaper maps, notes, sources, index, board edges somewhat discolored, small stains to edges. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 376 pages. DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, tape marks inside boards and on DJ edges. Signed by the author. More
London: Duckworth, [1936]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 314, frontis illus., boards and edges soiled, boards stained. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1932. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [2], 251,[1] pages. Pencil notations throughout. Several pages soiled, Boards and spine worn. Several tears at spine and,spine discolored. The contents are: Bolshevik Coup d'etat and Trotsky's Tactics; A Coup d'etat that failed Trotsky vs. Stalin; 1920 Poland's Experience Order Reigns in Warsaw; Kapp or Mars vs. Marx; Bonaparte--On the First Modern Coup d'etat; Primo de Rivera and Pilsudski A courtier and a Socialist General; Mussolini; and A Would-be Dictator Hitler. In this very scarce work, Malaparte is the first writer to describe the modern coup d'etat. Curzio Malaparte (9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957), born Curt Erich Suckert, was an Italian writer, film-maker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works Kaputt and La pelle. The former is a semi-fictionalized account of the Eastern Front during the Second World War and the latter is an account focusing on morality in the immediate post-war period of Naples. During the 1920s, Malaparte was one of the intellectuals who supported the rise of Italian fascism and Benito Mussolini, through the magazine 900. Despite this, Malaparte had a complex relationship with the National Fascist Party and was stripped of membership in 1933 for his independent streak. Arrested numerous times, he had Casa Malaparte created in Capri where he lived under house arrest. After the Second World War, he became a film maker and moved closer to both Togliatti's Italian Communist Party and the Catholic Church, reputedly becoming a member of both before his death. More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1946. Second Printing. 19 cm, 301, bibliography, index, boards somewhat worn, soiled, and faded. More
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 326, illus., bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears. More
Paris: Editions "La Renaissance" 1953. 391, wraps, footnotes, appendix, some foxing/creasing to rear cover, small tear at top of spine, spine creased. Text in Russian. More
Liverpool: Checkmate Books, 2004. Number 462 of an editlon limited to 1000 copies. Trade paperback. [6], 130 p. Illustrations. More
Paris: YMCA-Press, 1948. 441, wraps, footnotes, several tears at spine, lower corner of a few pages bent, covers somewhat worn, creased, and discolored. More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. Second impression [stated]. Hardcover. 348, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Cover has some wear and soiling, especially at top and bottom of spine. No dust jacket present. Slightly cocked. Bookplate of Evan Reigersberg Versluys inside the front cover!!! Signature of previous owner and date on fep. Allan Noble Monkhouse (7 May 1858 – 10 January 1936) was an English playwright, critic, essayist and novelist. He was born in Barnard Castle, County Durham. He worked in the cotton trade, in Manchester, and settled in Disley, Cheshire. From 1902 to 1932 he worked on The Manchester Guardian, writing also for the New Statesman. As literary editor, in fact if not in formal title, at the Guardian, Monkhouse helped to launch the career of James Agate by publishing his open letters from France during the First World War. Agate appears in Monkhouse's play Nothing Like Leather barely disguised as the theatre critic "Topaz". He began to write drama for the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, shortly after it was opened by Annie Horniman, along with Stanley Houghton and Harold Brighouse, forming a school of realist dramatists independent of the London stage, who were known as the Manchester School. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, c1992. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 374, illus., maps. More