Behind Soviet Power: Stalin and the Russians
New York: The Readers Press, 1946. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 120 p., [3]. Illustrations. More
New York: The Readers Press, 1946. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 120 p., [3]. Illustrations. More
New York: Atheneum, 1986. First American Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 288, illus., maps. More
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1994. First Printing. 24 cm, 318, library markings. 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1967. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 328, footnotes, bibliography, notes, index, DJ worn & soiled: edge tears/chips. Inscribed by the author (O'Connor). 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: 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
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. First U.S. edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Text in English, French. 318 p. illus., map (on lining papers), group ports. 23 cm. Occasional footnotes. 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
New York, N.Y. Doubleday (An Anchor Book), 1959. First Anchor Books Edition. Trade Paperback. xiv, [2], 524 pages. Includes Editor's Note and Preface. Volume One covers The Overthrow of Tzarism; Volume Two covers The Attempted Counter-Revolution; Volume Three covers The Triumph of the Soviets. Also contains Conclusion, Chronological Table, A Short List of Principal Persons; A Short List of Principal Places; A Brief Glossary of Unfamiliar Terms; A List of Parties and Political Groups; and an Index. Selected and Edited by F. W. Dupee from The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky, Translated from the Russian by Max Eastman. History of the Russian Revolution is a work by Leon Trotsky on the Russian Revolution of 1917. The first portion is dedicated to the political history of February Revolution and the second to that of October Revolution, with the intention of explaining the relations between these two events. The book was initially published in Germany in 1930. The original language is Russian, but it was translated into English by Max Eastman in 1932. The book was considered anti-stalinist in the Soviet Union, and only made it to publication in Russia as late as in 1997. More
Moscow: Moscow Textbooks, 1996. Edition was limited to 10,000. Hardcover. Two-volume set, in slip cases. Minor DJ and slipcase wear. Minor wear to the volume II slipcase. Very light wear on corners and edges. Size: 8 1/2 x 12. Includes dust jackets. Inscribed in Russian, on the fep by Moscow Mayor Luzhkov to Ex-Im Bank Chairman James Harmon "with best wishes of success in joint business". He was the 18th chairman and president of the Export–Import Bank of the United States. Text is in English, with some Russian. Profusely illustrated (with many in color). Beautiful, two volume scholarly history of Moscow. Volume 1; 368 pages, 420 illustrations. Volume 2; 272 pages, 446 illustrations. Pages are in excellent condition except for page 21/22 which is torn but complete. Illustrated endpapers in both volumes. Gold cloth with embossed titles and design. Yellow DJs with illustrations and silver titles. This edition touches upon the formation of historical Moscow, combination of Eastern and Western traditions in the city's artistic image, succession of symbolics of Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, Kiev and Vladimir. The basic principles of town-building art are shown in the planning, composition, building in, landscape, toponymics, connected with the key historical events of Moscow kingdom, imperial Russia, the USSR and the Russian Federation. This edition is for the general public. This edition is dedicated to the 850th anniversary of Moscow [with financial support of Moscow Government.]. More
New York: Free Press, c1994. First Printing. 25 cm, 529, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, pencil erasure on title page. More