Eastern Europe: Politics, Revolution, & Diplomacy
New York: Knopf, 1970. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 324, index, edges soiled, DJ worn, soiled, and frayed (nibbled? ) at bottom edge. More
New York: Knopf, 1970. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 324, index, edges soiled, DJ worn, soiled, and frayed (nibbled? ) at bottom edge. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. First Printing. 22 cm, 397, DJ somewhat soiled and discolored, edges soiled, front DJ flap has been folded. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xv, [5], 746, [2] pages. Endpaper charts. Footnotes. Principal Personages. Source Notes. Sources. Notes. Index. Some foxing to fore-edge. DJ somewhat soiled, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. Derived from a Kirkus review: Once in 1905 and twice in 1917 revolutions swept Russia, major acts in a drama that finally brought Lenin's Bolsheviks to power. Salisbury tackles a rarely attempted comprehensive history of the period, beginning with the 1882 execution of Lenin's older brother Aleksander for participation in a revolutionary plot, and ending with the 1918 murders of the Tsar and his family. The title comes from Aleksander Blok's poem about twelve Red Guards tramping through the Russian night. Salisbury's ruthless, manic depressive Lenin is repeatedly contraposed to the pathetically incompetent Tsar Nicholas II. The Tsar, though well intentioned, is indecisive and often swayed by the advice of charlatans. One point is critical: although in 1905 and February 1917 Lenin is found to be almost disastrously out of touch with Russian events, Salisbury sees him as forcing the successful October 1917 coup "almost singlehanded." Salisbury's version of Lenin's role in the coup and his vision of the "dark people" will be debated by those who argue that the coup resulted from a series of accidental, unforeseen incidents, as well as those who oppose generalizations about national character. An appealing feature is the chorus of footnotes citing Roy A. Medvedev, dissident chronicler of Stalin's crimes, which satisfies readers' curiosity about the fates of Lenin's coplotters. More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 29 cm, 260 pages. Profusely illustrated. Biographical notes on photographers. Select Bibliography. Index. Photography Credits. Foreword by Vitaly Korotich and afterword by Fyodor Vaganov. Small red dot at bottom edge, publisher's postal reply card laid in. Jonathan Sanders is a well-known historian and veteran CBS News Moscow correspondent. He served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and taught courses in Soviet and Russian history and television at Columbia University. The former assistant director of the Russian (now Harriman) Institute, Dr. Sanders then became the Director of the Project on the Russian Future. He is the author of Abbeville's critically acclaimed book, Russia 1917: The Unpublished Revolution. More
Berlin, Germany: Verlag fur Kulturpolitik, 1927. 385, footnotes, some foxing to fore-edge and text, boards somewhat soiled, some scratches to rear board. Text is in German. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. First Edition. 309, boards scuffed and stained, board corners worn. More
Warsaw: Rossica, 1921. 58, text darkened--some pages torn/reinforced with tape, small pieces missing to edges of some pages. More
New York: Putnam, [1959]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 318, DJ slightly soiled with slightly frayed edges, top edge soiled, minor erasure residue inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1970. Rev./Enlarged Edition. 686, wraps, footnotes, bibliographic essay, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled, some page discoloration. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1984. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, 239 p. Map. Occasional footnotes. Bibliographical Note. Index. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 384 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [12], 350, [6] p. 2 Maps and 62 Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
New York: New American Library, 1988. First Printing. 292, wraps, illus., maps, bibliography, index, some page discoloration, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: New American Library, 1987. First Thus Edition. First Printing. 292, illus., maps, appendices, source notes, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped. More
London, England: Orion Children's Books, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 304, [8] pages. Endpaper map. Part One--A Russian Fairy Tale; Part Two--One Night in Moscow; and Part Three--A Fairy Tale, Ending. Also includes Appendix. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Marcus Sedgwick (born 8 April 1968) is a British writer, illustrator and musician. He has published novels such as Floodland (2001; winner of the Branford Boase Award) and The Dark Horse (2002; shortlisted for The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize). He authored several picture books, and has illustrated a collection of myths and a book of folk tales for adults. The first U.S. edition of his 2011 novel Midwinterblood won the 2014 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association as the preceding year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". Arthur Ransome was a journalist and writer who left his English home, his wife and daughter, and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman, Evgenia. This is his story. At times bleak, at others rich, poignant and tender, Marcus Sedgwick blends fairy tale, spy thriller, and love in a novel that lingers long in the memory. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. First American Edition. 446, illus., maps, notes and references, select bibliography, index, small tear DJ spine, some soiling & remainder stamps fore-edge. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. 490, illus., index, very slight scuffing to DJ, slight wear to DJ edges. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1988. 1st Ballantine Edition. First Printing. 490, wraps, illus., index, slight wear to cover edges, corners of a few pages bent Memoirs of an investigative journalist. Seldes recounts stories told to him by Edward Marshall, who had been a correspondent in the Spanish- American War (pp. 63-64). More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xxi, [1] , 490 pages. Illustrations. Index. Henry George Seldes (November 16, 1890 – July 2, 1995) was an American investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, editor, author, and media critic best known for the publication of the newsletter In Fact from 1940 to 1950. He was an investigative reporter of the kind known in early 20th century as a muckraker, using his journalism to fight injustice and justify reform. But by his time the public mood had changed, and reader demand for muckraking was much weaker. According to historian Helen Fordham, Seldes's career demonstrates how those who crusaded too vehemently seemed to violate new standards of impartiality and objectivity. His work was often criticized as too radical. Influenced by Lincoln Steffens and Walter Lippmann, Seldes's career began when he was hired at the Pittsburgh Leader at the age of 19. In 1914, he was appointed night editor of the Pittsburgh Post. In 1940, Seldes co-founded a weekly newsletter, In Fact, subtitled "an Antidote to Falsehoods in the Daily Press." In it, he attacked malfeasance, often using documents from the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. He exposed the hazards of cigarettes and attacked the press for suppressing them. He brought attention to the National Association of Manufacturers' use of advertising dollars to produce favorable news stories favorable and suppress unfavorable ones. He received an award for professional excellence from the Association for Education in Journalism in 1980 and a George Polk Award for his life's work in 1981. More
Chicago, IL: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [1972]. First U.S. Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 436, illus., index, DJ slightly soiled, some wear to DJ edges. More
Chicago, IL: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First Edition. 436, illus., maps, notes, index, ink name inside front flyleaf, some wear along edges of DJ. More
Chicago, IL: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First U.S. Edition. 436, illus., maps, notes, index, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22.5 cm, 813, maps, footnotes, index, ink note inside board, edges soiled, DJ worn, scuffed, and soiled. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. 239, illus. (1 plate separated), pencil underlining p. 18, ink name & date inside front flyleaf, boards & spine scuffed. More