Lenin: A New Biography
New York: Free Press, c1994. First Printing. 25 cm, 529, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, pencil erasure on title page. More
New York: Free Press, c1994. First Printing. 25 cm, 529, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, pencil erasure on title page. More
Moscow: Novosti, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. In Russian. 2 volumes. Volume 1, 412, [4] pages. Volume 2, 412, [4] pages. Index. Illustrations. First volume is signed by the author. Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov (22 March 1928 – 6 December 1995) was a Soviet/Russian historian and colonel general who was head of the Soviet military's psychological warfare department. After research in secret Soviet archives, he published biographies of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, among others. Despite being a committed Stalinist and Marxist–Leninist ideologue for most of his career, Volkogonov came to repudiate communism and the Soviet system before his death from cancer in 1995. Through his research in the restricted archives, Volkogonov discovered facts that contradicted the Soviet version of events, and the cult of personality that had been built up around Lenin and Stalin. Volkogonov published books that contributed to liberal Russian thought that emerged during Glasnost in the late 1980s and the post-Soviet era of the early 1990s. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. First Edition [stated] Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. 242 pages. Footnotes. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Slightly cocked. Underling and ink marks/comments noted. Name of previous owner inside the back cover. This is one of the Critical Periods of History series. Theodore H. Von Laue (June 22, 1916 in Frankfurt, Germany – January 22, 2000 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was an American historian and professor emeritus of history at Clark University. In 1937 Von Laue was sent to Princeton University by his father Max von Laue, who did not want him to grow up "in a country run by gangsters". He finished his studies with a Ph.D. about the social legislation of Otto von Bismarck. He then taught at Swarthmore College, the University of California, Riverside, and the Washington University in St. Louis, when he finally became professor of European History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was there from 1970 until 1982. One of Von Laue first works has been a biographical study about Leopold von Ranke showing that his "scientific objectivity" was much influenced by the romantics in the 19th century. He then switched to studies of German and especially Russian history, which lead him to consider the influences as the Western Civilization on countries of a different one. An example for this is his book about Sergei Witte's failure to industrialize Russia, blocked by conservative forces including the last Russian tsar Nicholas II. Better known are the following books, which he wrote about this topic: "Why Lenin? Why Stalin?" published in 1964, and his "The World Revolution of Westernization" More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1969. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 196, illus., bibliography, index. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1931. Hardcover. 348 pages. Illus., index, boards somewhat worn, faded, and soiled, somewhat shaken, endpapers discolored. Signed by the author. More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 260, [2] pages. DJ is price clipped. Small stamp on bottom edge. Includes Author's Preface, Shapinsky's Karma; Art's Father, Vladek's Son; Jensen's Shangri-la; Lennie's Illusion; Slonimsky's Failure; and Bogg's Bills, as well as Preface. The opening essay, "Shapinsky's Karma," tells the story of Akumal Ramachander, an English teacher from Bengalore, India,who, on his first trip to America, stumbles upon the work of a completely unknown, utterly reclusive, virtually destitute sixty year-old abstract painter named Harold Shapinsky. Ramachander decides it is his karma--his destiny in live--to bring this unlikely subject to fame and worldly success--and, surmounting all obstacles, he proceeds to de exactly that. Like the other essays in the collection, this true-life version of a contemporary art-world fairy tale is what Mr. Weschler calls a "passion piece"--these are stories of people merely going about their everyday business and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they thought they were headed. These stories are marked not only by the rare enthusiasms of their subjects but equally by the energy, empathy, intelligence, wit, and insight that Mr. Weschler brings to them. These are stories of people merely going about their everyday lives, when suddenly they seem to catch fire, becoming utterly obsessed, and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they though they were headed. These fascinating stories are marked not only by the rare enthusiasms of their subjects, but equally by the energy, empathy, intelligence, wit, and insight that Mr. Weschler brings to them. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1939. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 32, wraps. More
Philadelphia, PA: University of PA Press, 1939. 395, illus., endpaper maps, some soiling inside front flyleaf, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ soiled & small pieces missing. More
New York: The John Day Company, 1971. First American Edition. 290, illus., map, index, DJ somewhat soiled and scuffed: small tears, some wear to edges. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1965. 324, illus., index, lib bkplate & stamps, glue residue ins rear flylf, top corner fr flylf cut off, DJ sl soiled & in plastic sl The author and her husband, Wladimir Woytinsky, both economists, met in Siberia, were exiled from Russia after the Revolution, and lived for a timein Germany before arriving in the United States in 1935. More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1927. 324, boards somewhat scuffed and soiled, some wear at spine, pages have darkened. More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1927. 324, boards scuffed and soiled, some wear at spine, pages have darkened. More
Ventimiglia, Italy: Tipo-Litografia Ligure, 1973. 24 cm, 251, wraps, illus., bibliography, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled, some page discoloration, some edge soiling. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1935. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 317, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. To Ruth & Gordon Lewis - my pious friends and drunken companions of many many years standing. Nicholas Wreden. Cover has some wear and soiling. Rear board weak and has been strengthened with glue. The title of this book is somewhat misleading. It does not deal much with the author's Americanization, but offers an account of his personal experience in his native country during the first three years of the revolution. Nicholas Wreden was was born on November 30, 1901 in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia (and died in 1955) and was a noted translator and a Russian editors Member of the American Booksellers Association (president 1942-1943). In 1935, Wreden published his memoir, describing his journey from a middle-class, patriotic identity in late Imperial Russia though his flight from the Revolution and reinvention as an American citizen. Yet in the next twenty years, Wreden would live an impactful life - as a highly regarded translator from Russian and as an editor and a publishing executive (for Dutton and Little, Brown) commissioning both Russian and American literature. He helped choose the books selected for reading by US troops (the Armed Services Editions distributed during the Second World War) as well as determining the Russian-language literature available to America's Russian diaspora through his involvement with the Chekhov Publishing House. His double role as a translator and as an editor was significant in shaping our conception of what Russian literature means today. More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1939. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 301, boards somewhat worn, soiled, and edges frayed, DJ flaps present, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Munich: A-T-B Publishing, 1954. 88, wraps, illus., text has darkened, some soiling to covers. Text is in Russian. More
Paris: Lev, 1978. 284, wraps, illus., map, slight soiling to covers, crease to lower portion of rear cover and a few pages. More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1944. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 286, usual library markings, pages discolored, boards worn/soiled, part of DJ cut off & pasted to front endpaper, spine faded. More