An Illustrated History of the Great October Socialist Revolution: 1917, Month by Month
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987. 25 cm, 397, illus. (some color). History from the Russian point of view. More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987. 25 cm, 397, illus. (some color). History from the Russian point of view. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. 177, illus., bibliography, index, paper clip impressions fr flylf to title pg, sl foxing ins bds & flylves, DJ edges worn: sm tears. More
Moscow: State Military Pub. House, 1939. Wraps. 5" x 6.5", 56, wraps, illus., map, footnotes, text has darkened, covers worn and small edge tears/chips, front cover present but separated from text. Top corner of title page cut off, ink notation and stamp on title page, price stamp on rear cover. Part of the Red Army Soldier's Library. Text is in Russian. More
Washington DC: Society of Dissemination of Russian National and Patriotic Literature, 1981. Second printing [stated]. Wraps. THIS WORK IS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. 644 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Typed quotations (presumed) taped to the top of pave 5. Front cover has tear at top spine. Cover has some wear and soiling. This work is about the Reign of Tsar Nicholas II. The first printing was in 1949. There are 21 untitled chapters. The period covered is from 1894 until 1917. It discusses Court Life, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the start of the Russian Revolution. Sergei Sergeiivich Oldenburg was born on 29 June 1888. His father Sergey Fedorovich Oldenburg (1863-1934), was a famed academician (1900), and Orientalist specializing in Buddhist studies. He served as permanent secretary of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (from 1904), Russian Academy of Sciences (from 1917), USSR Academy of Sciences (1925-1929), and Minister of Public Education (July — September 1917). He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University, and later worked as an official in the Ministry of Finance of Russia. Sergei from a young age adhered to right-wing views, a member the Union of October 17. In 1918 Oldenburg went to the Crimea, where he joined the White movement. In the fall of 1920, he was unable to evacuate with the Russian Army, headed by General Baron P.N. Wrangel, because he was sick with typhoid . Having recovered, with fake documents, he traveled from Crimea to Petrograd, where he met his father, who helped him to emigrate. He settled in Paris, France, where he lived in poverty. Sergei Sergeiivich Oldenburg died at the age of 51, in Paris on 28 April 1940. More
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1924. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. xix, [1], 298, [2] pages. Frontis illustration. Gilt decoration on front cover. Cover shows wear and soiling. Bookseller sticker inside front cover. Ink notation on fep. Lewis Palen was both an author and a translator. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1977. First? Edition. First? Printing. 498, illus., chapter notes, select bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn/soiled: edge tears/chips. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. 297, illus., index, slight foxing to fore-edge, DJ worn and stained: small tears, small pieces missing. More
Philadelphia, PA: College Offset Press, 1946. 24 cm, 98, wraps, spine missing, stamp on verso. This is one of the least common Siberian Intervention analyses. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1918. First? Edition. First? Printing. 100, footnotes, some wear to board edges, especially at spine, ink notation on front endpaper, endpapers discolored, edges soiled. More
Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., 2016. First Edition, First Edition, First Printing. Trade paperback. xviii, 196 pages. Occasional footnotes. Illustrations (a few with color). Author's Note. Timeline. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Foreword by Mark D. Steinberg. Jessica E. Piper is an American writer and researcher. In 2013 she was recognized as a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar for her research on changing American labor relations in the late 1800s. She has also researched diaspora settlement history at the Jewish Museum of Hohenems in Hohenems, Austria. She has written about contemporary immigration issues. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. 587, illus., maps, glossary, chronology, notes, bibliography, index, library stamps to text & fore-edge, small stains to fore-edge DJ in soiled plastic sleeve, library stickers to DJ and plastic sleeve (some crossed out in marker). This book (the sequel to Pipes' The Russian Revolution) covers the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to the death of Lenin in 1924. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968. 365, footnotes, index, DJ soiled and small tear in rear DJ. More
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1931. 312, frontis illus., text & endpapers somewhat darkened, damp stains to a few pgs (no pgs stuck), some wear to top & bottom sp edges. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, c1918, 1919. 226, small tears to several pages, ink notation and pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. vii, [11], 462 pages. Illustrations. Genealogical chart. Maps. Selected bibliography. Index. Front DJ flap price clipped. Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky (born September 23, 1936) is a Russian playwright, television personality, screenwriter, and the author of more than forty history books. Radzinsky became a writer of popular nonfiction books on historical subjects. He has specialized in books about figures and times of Russian history. Since the 1990s, he has written the series Mysteries of History. Books translated into English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin. His book Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives (1997) was based on research in Russian and Soviet archives made newly available after 1991. He explored numerous controversies about Joseph Stalin, including the existence of a fuller text of Lenin's Testament, the alleged involvement of Stalin as an agent of the Tsarist secret police, and the role of Stalin in the death of his wife and the murder of Sergey Kirov. According to Radzinsky, Stalin was poisoned by order of Lavrentiy Beria. His book includes an interview with a former bodyguard of Stalin, who stated that on the night of Stalin's death, the bodyguards were relieved of duty by an NKVD officer named Khrustalev. This same officer was briefly mentioned in Memories, the memoir of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. More
New York, N.Y. Doubleday (An Anchor Book), 1997. First Anchor Books Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 607, [5] pages. Translated by H.T. Willetts. Illustrations. Includes Preface, Prologue: The Name; and Introduction: An Enigmatic Story. Includes chapters on Soso: His Life and Death; Koba: Enigmatic Koba, The New Koba; Stalin: His Life, His Death; Interlude: A Family in Wartime. Also includes Afterword, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky (born September 23, 1936) is a Russian playwright, television personality, screenwriter, and the author of more than forty history books. Radzinsky has specialized in books about figures and times of Russian history. Books translated into English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin. His book Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives (1997) was based on research in Russian and Soviet archives made newly available after 1991. He explored numerous controversies about Joseph Stalin, including the existence of a fuller text of Lenin's Testament, the alleged involvement of Stalin as an agent of the Tsarist secret police, and the role of Stalin in the death of his wife and the murder of Sergey Kirov. According to Radzinsky, Stalin was poisoned by order of Lavrentiy Beria. His book includes an interview with a former bodyguard of Stalin, who stated that on the night of Stalin's death, the bodyguards were relieved of duty by an NKVD officer named Khrustalev. This same officer was briefly mentioned in Memories, the memoir of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. More
New York, N.Y. Doubleday, 1992. Fifth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, [11], 462 pages. Illustrations. Genealogical chart. Maps. Includes Acknowledgments, Prologue, Epilogue, Afterword, Appendix, Selected Bibliography and Index. Chapters include Leafing Through the Tsar's Diaries; The Death of Nicholas and Alexandra; and The Secret of the Ipatiev Night. Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky (born September 23, 1936) is a Russian playwright, television personality, screenwriter, and the author of more than forty history books. He has specialized in books about figures and times of Russian history. Since the 1990s, he has written the series Mysteries of History. Books translated into English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin. His book Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives (1997) was based on research in Russian and Soviet archives made newly available after 1991. He explored numerous controversies about Joseph Stalin, including the existence of a fuller text of Lenin's Testament, the alleged involvement of Stalin as an agent of the Tsarist secret police, and the role of Stalin in the death of his wife and the murder of Sergey Kirov. According to Radzinsky, Stalin was poisoned by order of Lavrentiy Beria. His book includes an interview with a former bodyguard of Stalin, who stated that on the night of Stalin's death, the bodyguards were relieved of duty by an NKVD officer named Khrustalev. This same officer was briefly mentioned in Memories, the memoir of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977. 266, illus., glossary, index, pgs wrinkled & stained from dampness (no pgs stuck), bds stained, DJ stained & wrinkled: edges worn. More
New York: Perennial [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002. First Perennial edition [Stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. [14], 412, [6] pages. Acknowledgments and Sources. Cover has spine tear, wear and soiling. Staining at bottom edge. Ink marks on pages 411 and 412. Richard Rayner (born 1955) is a British author who now lives in Los Angeles. He has worked as an editor at Time Out Magazine, in London, and later on the literary magazine Granta. Rayner is the author of nine books. His first, Los Angeles Without A Map, was published in 1988. Part-fiction, part-travelogue, this was turned into a movie L.A. Without a Map. In 1996, Rayner published The Blue Suit, a memoir about his early life that won an Esquire Non-Fiction Award in the UK, and was described as 'a beguiling portrait of the artist as a writer' by the New York Times. Novels like The Cloud Sketcher and Devil's Wind followed. Murder Book, another novel, grew out of a time that Rayner spent riding with the Los Angeles Police Department. In 2009, Rayner published A Bright And Guilty Place, a non-fiction historical narrative set in Los Angeles in the late 1920s and early 1930s, featuring various true-life tabloid crimes of the era. He has published in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, The Times, The Guardian, The Observer and Granta Magazine among others. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Rayner co-wrote 'The Rift', the first episode of the Steven Spielberg produced reboot of 'Amazing Stories' for Apple TV, aired in April 2020. Rayner has taught creative writing at King's College Cambridge and the University of Southern California. Currently he teaches in the Theater, Film and Television Department at UCLA. More
New York: The Modern Library, c. 1950's. Reprint Edition. 439, chapter notes, index, ink underlining & marginal notes to several pgs, bds quite weak, lib stamps, DJ in plastic sleeve rough spot inside rear flyleaf (library pocket has been removed), library stickers (some crossed out in marker) on DJ and plastic sleeve, DJ edges worn, board edges worn and threadbare. Introduction by Bertram D. Wolfe. More
New York: International Publishers, 1982. Reprint Edition. 395, wraps, illus., appendices, notes, biographical notes, index, fr cover creased, cover edges worn, ding in top margin of text corners of several pages turned, small creases to covers, some soiling to fore-edge. Introduction by John Howard Lawson. More
New York: International Publishers, 1971. New Edition. 395, wraps, illus., footnotes, index, some wear & soiling to covers. Introduction by John Howard Lawson. Foreword by V. I. Lenin. More
New York: The Modern Library, 1960. New Edition. First Thus? Printing. 439, stamp on front endpaper, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears. Introduction by Bertram D. Wolfe. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 183, [1] pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Occasional footnotes. Maps. Bibliography. DJ has slight wear Alexander Riaboff (1895-1984) who served in the Russian Army Air Service and was trained at Gatchina. After the Revolution, Riaboff flew in the Red Air Fleet and also with the counterrevolutionary White forces before fleeing in 1920 to Harbin, China. Later, he emigrated with his wife and daughter to the United States and settled in the San Francisco area. Years later, Riaboff wrote up his adventures as a pilot during those tumultuous times, and as edited by National Air and Space Museum curator Von Hardesty, they were published in 1986 as Gatchina Days: Reminiscences of a Russian Pilot. Von Hardesty is currently a curator in the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He has edited or written a number of books, including Gatchina Days; and Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941–1945. More
Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, [1969]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 373, illus., footnotes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, ink note and pencil erasure. More