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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. This fully updated new edition of Sheila Fitzpatrick's classic short history of the Russian Revolution takes into account the new archival and other evidence that has come to light since then, incorporating material that was previously inaccessible not only to Western but also to Soviet historians Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's 'revolution from above', to the great purges of the 1930s. She tells a gripping story of a Marxist revolution that was intended to transform the world, visited enormous suffering on the Russian people, and, like the French Revolution before it, ended up by devouring its own children. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 160 pages. Vladimir Shubin "The Soviet Union/Russian Federation's relations with South Africa, with special reference to the period since 1980" / Joseph R A Ayee "The measurement of decentralisation: the Ghanaian experience, 1988-92" / David Simon "Restructuring the local state in post-Apartheid cities: Namibian experience, and lessons for South Africa" / Jens A Andersson "Potato cultivation in the Uporoto Mountains, Tanzania" / Kweku Ampiah "Japanese aid to Tanzania: a study of the political marketing of Japan in Africa" (SL#283).

DVD. Condition: As New.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. A VGF or better pressbook with no cuts or missing pages. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. A VGF or better pressbook with no cuts or missing pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. By Ira Moskowitz (illustrator). Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. (November 11, 1903 Leoncin village near Warsaw, capital of Congress Poland in the Russian Empire - lands that were a part of the Russian partition territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - July 24, 1991 Surfside, Florida). The exact date of his birth is uncertain, but most probably it was November 11 a date Singer gave both to his official biographer Paul Kresh and his secretary Dvorah Telushkin. The often-quoted birth date, July 14, 1904 was made up by the author in his youth, possibly to appear too young to be drafted. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974). His father was a Hasidic rabbi and his mother, Bathsheba, was the daughter of the rabbi of Bilgoraj. Singer later used her name in his pen name "Bashevis" (Bathsheba's). Both his older siblings, Esther Kreitman and brother Israel Joshua Singer were writers as well. The family moved to the court of the Rabbi of Radzymin in 1907, where his father became head of the Yeshiva. After the Yeshiva building burned down in 1908, the family moved to Warsaw. In 1923, his older brother Israel Joshua arranged for him to move to Warsaw to work as a proofreader for the Jewish Literarische Bleter, of which the brother was an editor. In 1935 Singer emigrated from Poland to the United States. The move separated the author from his common-law first wife Runia Pontsch and son Israel Zamir (1929-2014); they emigrated to Moscow and then Palestine. The three met again twenty years later in 1955. Singer settled in New York City, where he was a journalist and columnist for The Jewish Daily Forward , a Yiddish-language newspaper. After a promising start, he became despondent and for some years felt "Lost in America" (title of his 1974 novel published in Yiddish; published in English in 1981). In 1938, he met Alma Wassermann née Haimann (1907-1996), a German-Jewish refugee from Munich. They married in 1940, and their union seemed to release energy in him; he returned to prolific writing and to contributing to the Forward. In addition to his pen name of "Bashevis," he published under the pen names of "Warszawski" (pron. Varshavsky) during World War II, and "D. Segal." They lived for many years in the Belnord apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Singer's first published story won the literary competition of the literarishe bletter and garnered him a reputation as a promising talent. Singer published his first novel, Satan in Goray, in installments in the literary magazine Globus, which he had co-founded with his life-long friend, the Yiddish poet Aaron Zeitlin in 1935. The book recounts events of 1648 in the village of Goraj (close to Bilgoraj). A third of Polish Jewry was murdered by Cossacks in the massacres. It explores the effects of the 17th century false messiah, Shabbatai Zvi, on the local population. Its last chapter imitates the style of a medieval Yiddish chronicle. With a stark depiction of innocence crushed by circumstance, the novel appears to foreshadow coming danger. In his later work, The Slave (1962), Singer returns to the aftermath of 1648, in a love story between a Jewish man and a Gentile woman. He portrays the traumatized and desperate survivors of the historic catastrophe with even deeper understanding. Singer became a literary contributor to The Jewish Daily Forward in 1945. That year, Singer published The Family Moskat. His stories, which he had published in Yiddish literary news.

First Paperback Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 314 pages; Based on papers presented to a conference on "The Russian peasant in the nineteenth century" sponsored by the Faculty Seminar on East European Studies at Stanford University and held on December 2-3, 1966. Contents: The peasant way of life, by M. Matossian. -- The peasant and the emancipation, by T. Emmons. -- The peasant and religion, by D. W. Treadgold. -- The peasant and the army, by J. S. Curtiss. -- The peasant and the village commune, by F. M. Watters. -- The peasant and the factory, by R. E. Zelnik. -- The peasant in nineteenth-century historiography, by M. B. Petrovich. -- The peasant in literature, by D. Fanger. -- Afterword: The problem of the peasant, by N. V. Riasanovsky. 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 168 pages. W J Keith "Beyond Novel, Beyond Romance: Reading the Complete Portius" / Eivor Lindstedt "Chroniclers and Prophets: Time and Genre in Portius" / Jean-Pierre De Waegenaere "Wild Flowers, Shrubs and Trees in John Cowper Powys's Novels" / Olga Markova "A Russian Perspective on John Cowper Powys" (SL#113).

Hardcover. Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket. ]. 211p. Illus. Folio.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First Paperback Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 314 pages; Based on papers presented to a conference on "The Russian peasant in the nineteenth century" sponsored by the Faculty Seminar on East European Studies at Stanford University and held on December 2-3, 1966. Contents: The peasant way of life, by M. Matossian. -- The peasant and the emancipation, by T. Emmons. -- The peasant and religion, by D. W. Treadgold. -- The peasant and the army, by J. S. Curtiss. -- The peasant and the village commune, by F. M. Watters. -- The peasant and the factory, by R. E. Zelnik. -- The peasant in nineteenth-century historiography, by M. B. Petrovich. -- The peasant in literature, by D. Fanger. -- Afterword: The problem of the peasant, by N. V. Riasanovsky. 1 Kg.

Softcover. 125 p.; 20.5 cm. [First printed in 1966] VG in orig. illus. blue wrapper.

Softcover. 125 p.; 18 cm. VG in orig. illus. black and green on citron wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Charles Townshend, His character and Career" by Sir Lewis Namier, was delivered as the 1959 Leslie Stephen Lecture, and published by Cambridge University Press in pamphlet format. This is the First Edition. Lord Townshend was the principle author of what are collectively called the "Townshend Acts" which played such a large part in instigating the American Revolution of Independence. There were five acts, which were : The New York Restraining Act 1767 passed on June 5, 1767 ; The Revenue Act 1767 passed on June 26, 1767; The Indemnity Act 1767 passed on June 29, 1767; The Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 passed on June 29, 1767; and The Vice Admiralty Court Act 1768 passed on July 6, 1768. These acts were immensely unpopular in the Colonies, and eventually resulted in the Boston Massacre, which acted as a match to tinder. Since Namier's lecture covered Townshend's entire career (albeit briefly), there is more to this pamphlet than a mere aside to the American Revolution. It's a fascinating lecture about a person, now largely forgotten - at least in the United States - but who played such a large part in one of the most important chapters in world history. SERIES : Leslie Stephen Lectures TITLE : Charles Townshend, His Character and Career AUTHOR : Sir Lewis Namier (Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, 1888 - 1960; born Ludwik Bernstein Niemirowski in Russian - Controlled Poland; he emigrated to the U.K., studied at Oxford, and became a British Subject in 1913. He served at the front in World War I with the Royal Fusiliers. His career as both historian and an individual in the employ of the Foreign Office was a "mixed bag", his views being controversial.) IMPRINT : Cambridge University Press PLACE : Cambridge, England DATE : 1959 EDITION : First Trade Edition PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Pamphlet format; 30 pages; approximately 4 7/8" x 7 1/4"; printed wraps (with flaps), sewn. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book which remains clean and presentable, with the following imperfections and particulars noted : EXTERIOR : Slight weathering and a touch of foxing; bottom fore-edge corner has been softly bumped with attendant shallow creasing; slight, shallow creasing to top edge of rear cover. Else clean. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : The bump to the lower corner follows through the copy, else the interior is clean and free of marking.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Minimal wear; previous owner's book plate on inside front cover; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket protected by a mylar cover. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 184 pages. Illustrated. Ivan Turgenev "The Tryst" / Alexander Guryanov "A Farmer and His Family" Galina Olgina "The Old Craft of Lace Making" / Kyrill Kalmanovich "Lincoln's Russian General" / Andrei Chegodayev "Painter Poet of His Native Land". (SL#125/2).

Condition: New. 2013 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1917). SB 55pp + Plates & MapPublished Price £9.95 Among the many problems attending the British forces who landed in North Russia in 1919-19 to aid the White troops in their doomed attempt to resist and reverse the Bolshevik revolution, the care and evacuation of sick and wounded soldiers was especially difficult. The harsh terrain and cold climate presented the Royal Army Medical Corps with unprecedented troubles, and how they were surmounted is the subject of this informative booklet. Written by the senior medical officer with the force, the book shows why, âin the depths of the Russian forest a box of matches may be of more value for the saving of life than many elaborate and more technical appliancesâ and why speed and light equipment were of the essence in evacuating casualties before they froze to death.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 124 pages. Brian Glyn Williams "The ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars: An historical reinterpretation" / Alexander Andreyev "Russian Buddhists in Tibet, end of the nineteenth century to 1930" / Simon C Smith "Piloting Princes: Hugh Clifford and the Malay rulers" (SL#260).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 120 pages. Andrew Whitehead "Red London" / Bernard H Moss "Socialism and the Republic in France" / Judith Harrison and Liam O'Sullivan"The Russian avant-garde and the state, 1905-1924" / Matthew Worley"Communist Party culture in Britain in the Third Period, 1928-1935" / Martin Wasserman "Franz Kafka as a key reformer" (BT#38).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 36 pages. Nicolas Walter "Anarchism in Russia" / Elizabeth Smith "Marxism and the Russian Revolution" / Alexander Berkman "Kronstadt diary" (U.P.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew, vowelized. Frontispiece, XL, 175, (1) pages. 214 x 144 mm. Some pages have penciled commentary on the text and translation into English. They are erasable. Wear to binding. Slight yellowing but good paper. Shaul Tchernichovsky was a poet, essayist, translator, and medical doctor. He is one of the great Hebrew poets, is identified with nature poetry, and as a poet was greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece. He studied at a reformed religious primary school and at age 10 transferred to a Russian school. He published his first poems in Odessa where he studied from 1890 to 1892. His first poem was "In My Dream." From 1899 to 1906 he studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, completing his medical studies in Lausanne. He wrote poetry while practicing medicine from then on. He returned to the Ukraine, practicing medicine in Kharkiv and Kiev. In the First World War he served as an army doctor in Minsk and in Saint Petersburg. From 1925 to 1932 he was one of the editors of the newspaper Hatekufa. He also edited the section on medicine in the Hebrew encyclopedia Eshkol. He was in the United States 1929 - 1930 and in 1931 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, which was under British rule and remained in Israel for the rest of his life. He was also an excellent translator. His translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey earned him recognition, and he also translated Sophocles, Horace, Shakespeare, Molwas a poet, essayist, translator, and medical doctor. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, is identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece. He started at a reformed religious primary school and at age 10 he transferred to a Russian school. He published his first poems in Odessa where he studied from 1890 to 1892. His first poem was "In My Dream." From 1899 to 1906 he studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, finishing his medical studies in Lausanne. He wrote poetry while practicing medicine from then on. He returned to the Ukraine, practicing medicine in Kharkiv and Kiev. In the First World War he served as an army doctor in Minsk and in Saint Petersburg. From 1925 to 1932 he was one of the editors of the newspaper Hatekufa. He also edited the section on medicine in the Hebrew encyclopedia Eshkol. He was in the United States 1929 - 1930, immigrating to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1931 where he remained for the rest of his life. He was also an excellent translator. His translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey earned him recognition, and he also translated Sophocles, Horace, Shakespeare, Molière, Pushkin, Goethe, Heine, Byron, Shelley, the Kalevala, the Gilgamesh Cycle, the Icelandic Edda, etc. He served as doctor of the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv. In his later years he served as doctor for the Tel Aviv schools. He edited the Hebrew terminology manual for medicine and the natural sciences. He was twice awarded the Bialik Prize for literature, in 1940 (jointly with Zelda Mishkovsky) and in 1942 (jointly with Haim Hazaz). In the poetry of Tchernichovsky there is a blend of the influences of Jewish cultural heritage and world cultural heritage. In response to the Holocaust he wrote the poems "The Slain of Tirmonye" and "Ballads of Worms" that brought into expression his heart's murmurings concerning the tragic fate of the Jewish people. Many of his poems have been set to music by the best Hebrew popular composers, such as Yoel Angel and Nahum Nardi. Singer-songwriters have also set his lyrics to music, as Shlomo Artzi did for They Say There Is a Land (omrim yeshna eretz), which is also well known in the settings of Angel and of Miki Gavrielov. Oh My Land My Birthplace (hoy artzi moladeti)) is better known in the setting by Naomi Shemer, as arranged by Gil Aldema. Shalosh atonot (Three Jenny-asses) also became a popular song.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Illustrated. Arthur Gaunt "Sailors In The Making" / H C Webster "Runaway! A True Story of the Iron Road" / E O Hoppe "Painted Desert The Land of the Rainbow Bridge" / Philip Briggs "North with the Pintail" / A Harrison "Real Cricket!" / Gunby Hadath "The Fifth Hubbard" / Russian Medals & Decorations (Illustrated)" (SL#106).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages. Anastasia Posadskaya Self-Portrait of a Russian Feminist Ellen Meiksins Wood Custom Against Capitalism Joseph McCarney Marx and Justice Again Norman Geras Bringing Marx to Justice: An Addendum and Rejoinder Andrew Glyn The Costs of Stability: The Advanced Capitalist Countries in the 1980s Niels Finn Christiansen The Danish No to Maastricht Julian Stallabrass Painting Desert Storm Alex Callinicos Reform and Revolution in South Africa: A Reply to John Saul John Saul John Saul replies Krishna Kumar Socialist Reconstruction of Schooling: A Comment Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff Everythingism, or Better Still, Overdetermination Joan Hall Taking Women s Work for Granted.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Russian and Hebrew text. 143 x 164 mm. 80 pages.

Condition: Very Good. text in Russian & English, softcover, very good; volume 16. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Hebrew Language Edition. 334 pages. 185 x 115 mm. Hinges exposed. Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. (November 11, 1903 Leoncin village near Warsaw, capital of Congress Poland in the Russian Empire - lands that were a part of the Russian partition territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - July 24, 1991 Surfside, Florida). The exact date of his birth is uncertain, but most probably it was November 11 a date Singer gave both to his official biographer Paul Kresh and his secretary Dvorah Telushkin. The often-quoted birth date, July 14, 1904 was made up by the author in his youth, possibly to appear too young to be drafted. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974). His father was a Hasidic rabbi and his mother, Bathsheba, was the daughter of the rabbi of Bilgoraj. Singer later used her name in his pen name "Bashevis" (Bathsheba's). Both his older siblings, Esther Kreitman and brother Israel Joshua Singer were writers as well. The family moved to the court of the Rabbi of Radzymin in 1907, where his father became head of the Yeshiva. After the Yeshiva building burned down in 1908, the family moved to Warsaw. In 1923, his older brother Israel Joshua arranged for him to move to Warsaw to work as a proofreader for the Jewish Literarische Bleter, of which the brother was an editor. In 1935 Singer emigrated from Poland to the United States. The move separated the author from his common-law first wife Runia Pontsch and son Israel Zamir (1929-2014); they emigrated to Moscow and then Palestine. The three met again twenty years later in 1955. Singer settled in New York City, where he was a journalist and columnist for The Jewish Daily Forward , a Yiddish-language newspaper. After a promising start, he became despondent and for some years felt "Lost in America" (title of his 1974 novel published in Yiddish; published in English in 1981). In 1938, he met Alma Wassermann née Haimann (1907-1996), a German-Jewish refugee from Munich. They married in 1940, and their union seemed to release energy in him; he returned to prolific writing and to contributing to the Forward. In addition to his pen name of "Bashevis," he published under the pen names of "Warszawski" (pron. Varshavsky) during World War II, and "D. Segal." They lived for many years in the Belnord apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Singer's first published story won the literary competition of the literarishe bletter and garnered him a reputation as a promising talent. Singer published his first novel, Satan in Goray, in installments in the literary magazine Globus, which he had co-founded with his life-long friend, the Yiddish poet Aaron Zeitlin in 1935. The book recounts events of 1648 in the village of Goraj (close to Bilgoraj). A third of Polish Jewry was murdered by Cossacks in the massacres. It explores the effects of the 17th century false messiah, Shabbatai Zvi, on the local population. Its last chapter imitates the style of a medieval Yiddish chronicle. With a stark depiction of innocence crushed by circumstance, the novel appears to foreshadow coming danger. In his later work, The Slave (1962), Singer returns to the aftermath of 1648, in a love story between a Jewish man and a Gentile woman. He portrays the traumatized and desperate survivors of the historic catastrophe with even deeper understanding. Singer became a literary contributor to The Jewish Daily Forward in 1945. , , ,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Russian and Hebrew text. 143 x 164 mm. 80 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Russian and Hebrew text. 143 x 164 mm. 80 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 42 pages. Illustrated. Martin Hardie "The R. E. / Sir Alfred J Munnings "Reflections on the Past." / Leila Drew "Stefan Erzia A Russian Sculptor in Buenos Aires" / Cora Gordon "London Commentary" / Bryan Holme "New York Commentary" (U.P.).