Leonid I. Brezhnev: Pages from His Life
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1978. First Printing. 25 cm, 320, illus., appendix, remainder mark on bottom edge, some DJ wear & soiling, pencil erasure on fr endpaper. Foreword by Brezhnev. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1978. First Printing. 25 cm, 320, illus., appendix, remainder mark on bottom edge, some DJ wear & soiling, pencil erasure on fr endpaper. Foreword by Brezhnev. More
London: Inst for Study of Conflict, 1979. 22 cm, 465, maps, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. 279, illus., appendices, index, discoloration inside flyleaves, DJ discolored, DJ edges worn & small tears. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First Edition. 380, illus., appendices, index, boards soiled, small tears to top & bottom spine edges, slight darkening to text. More
n.p. National Council/Nat Front, 1951. 199, index, ink notation on front page. More
Moscow: The People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., 1937. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 22 cm. [8], 580 pages. Cover very worn and soiled. Hindges weak. Edges rubbed and corners bumped. Some moisture staining at bottom (all pages separate and text complete). This second purge trial involved 17 lesser figures including Karl Radek, Yuri Pyatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov. Alexander Beloborodov was also arrested and intended to be tried along with Radek, but did not make the confession required of him, and so he was not produced in court. Thirteen of the defendants were eventually executed by shooting. The rest received sentences in labor camps. Radek was spared as he implicated others, including Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, setting the stage for the Trial of Military and Trial of the Twenty One. Radek provided the pretext for the purge on a massive scale with his testimony that there was a "third organization separate from the cadres which had passed through [Trotsky's] school" as well as "semi-Trotskyites, quarter-Trotskyites, one-eighth-Trotskyites, people who helped us, not knowing of the terrorist organization but sympathizing with us, people who from liberalism, from a Fronde against the Party, gave us this help." By the third organization, he meant the last remaining former opposition group called Rightists led by Bukharin. At the time, many Western observers who attended the trials said that they were fair and that the guilt of the accused had been established. They based this assessment on the confessions of the accused, which were given in open court, without any apparent evidence that they had been tortured or drugged. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1955. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 165 Pages. Wraps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Covers soiled. Cover and spine edges worn. small tear at spine, pencil initials rear cover. This is one of the Hoover Institute Studies, Series B: Elites, No. 5. Ithiel de Sola Pool (October 26, 1917 – March 11, 1984) was a revolutionary figure in the field of social sciences. Pool led groundbreaking research on technology and its effects on society. He coined the term "convergence" to describe the effect of various scientific innovations on society in a futuristic world. In the course of his career, he would make startlingly accurate predictions about technology and society. In Pool's 1983 book, Technologies of Freedom he described the modes of technology. Digital electronics present convergence between historically separated modes of communication. Theater, news events, and speaking are all increasingly delivered electronically. These modes of communicating ideas are becoming one single grand system. More
Santiago: Empresa Editora Nacional, 1973. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 258, wraps, illus., facsims., notes, some page discoloration, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Evergreen Park, IL: The North American Study Center for Polish Affairs, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [2], 23 pages. Staple bound at the upper left corner. Cover soiled and worn. Corners of some pages creased. Front cover weak at the staple area. Rear cover not present. Rare surviving Cold War era Polish political unrest ephemera. This Coalition for Polish Independence predates the founding of the Solidarity Trade Union by about four years. Little can currently be found about either the Coalition or The North American Study Center for Polish Affairs. The Study Center wanted to draw people's attention to this statement written by "clandestine opposition groups" in Poland. There was a "Manifesto of 59" that opposed then recently proposed changes in the Polish Constitution which were asserted were aimed as legalizing Poland's subordination to Russia. More
Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1961. 52, wraps, footnotes, bibliography, covers somewhat soiled and creased, lower corner of several pages bent. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1971. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 130, wraps, illus., 10 folding color maps in pocket, bibliography, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1952. 281, wraps, illus., maps, bookplate removed from inside front cover, spine repaired with tape at bottom edge. More
Newport, RI: U.S. Naval War College, 1958. 44, wraps, reading list, some soiling to covers. More
Newport, RI: U.S. Naval War College, 1960. 54, wraps, errata slip, reading list, small scratches to front cover. More
Newport, RI: U.S. Naval War College, 1960. 54, wraps, reading list, pencil underlining to several pages, ink notes fr cover, pencil name rear cover, tears to spine & pc miss. More
Newport, RI: U.S. Naval War College, 1960. 53, wraps, reading list, some wear to edges of spine. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1994. 24 cm, 122, wraps, table, appendix, minor soiling to front cover. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1995. 24 cm, 63, wraps, label on rear cover. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1995. 103, wraps, appendix. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1995. 63, wraps, appendix. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1997. 24 cm, 88, wraps, references. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1999. 24 cm, 94, wraps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1999. 24 cm, 94, wraps. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1961. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. xiv, 699, [3] pages. Wraps. Cover has some wear and soiling. 51 entries listed in the Table of Contents. Index. Laid in is a handwritten note by Senator Warren Magnuson, then Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, on a United States Senate Memorandum sheet that says "I thought you would be interested in this. Warren Magnuson USS". From the Preface "Parts I, II, and III of the Final Report constitute a unique record in American Political History. For the first time, we have the complete press conferences, speeches, remarks, and statement of the two major candidates for the Presidency throughout the presidential campaign period. Here, then, is the presidential campaign of 1960. I [Chairman Magnuson] am confident the Senate and the public will find these volumes of continuing interest and use as a general reference work." NOTE: This final version has additional material, which was not available to the subcommittee at the time of the original subcommittee print of July 27, 1961, as well as a comprehensive index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1978. 24 cm, 50, wraps, map, some page discoloration. More