Search Results: History: Empires & Civ / Soviet Union from Bookmarc's

Washington, DC, USA: Executive Intelligence Review, 1988. CG3 - A tight, clean, sound copy in white wraps with minor overall shelf wear with a light bump at the top left corner plus there is some light creasing on the front and back covers plus there are the usual library marks, stamps, label, and pocket on the spine, the top outside paper edges, both sides of the front and endpaper, and on the inside surface of the back cover. This is an EIR (Executive Intelligence Review) Special Report dated September 30th 1988. A summary of intelligence analysis arguing for the accelerating threat that the Soviet Union posed to Western Europe based on the Soviet's adoption of the Ogarkov war plan. This book is notable for the inadequate quality and distorted perceptions of intelligence analysis just before the collapse and breakup of the Soviet Union in 1990. These errors of interpretation and distortions are especially significant in the incorrect assessment of the negative affects of the Afghanistan war on… Read More

Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1982. CH5 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus the original owner' name in ink on the inside of the front cover plus the original bookseller's label on the front endpaper. A book that provides a historical perspective on the industrialization of $ussia. The periad covered includes both Tsarist and Soviet times and presents both as a continuity of state centered policy and mobilization. Bibliographical essay, 202p.. 2nd Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, USA: Stein and Day, 1979. CH5 - A tight, clean, sound copy in tan paper covered boards quarter bound in burgandy cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on teh spine iwth minor overall shelf wear with some very light edge wear along the bottom board edges plus there is tape staining on the outside surfaces of the front and back boards and the front and back free endpapers from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the title page, and the back free endpaper plus there is some very light soiling on the outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear with a patch of rubbing on the spine near the bottom edge plus there is a closed tear (about 1") on the bottom edge of the back endflap plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A book about the operations of the CIA and KGB in Great Britain and their relationship to political scandals within… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1990. BF6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black and white photo illustrated black, gray, red and white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus some light sunning of the back cover along the spine edge. An insightful analysis of Soviet women and their connections to the broader Societ culture at the time of perestroika that is written by an author raised by Russian women. By the author of "Adam and Eve and the City," "October Blood," "World Without End," "Lovers and Tyrants," and "Divine Disobedience." Endnotes, 213p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, USA: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965. BF6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear with some tape staining on the outside surfaces of the front and back boards and on the front and back free endpapers from where the dust jacket endflaps were taped to the boards plus there are some small glue spots and paper residue on the front and back fixed endpapers from where an older library mylar sleeve was glued to the endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps, embossed seal, label, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the title page, the copyright page, and the back free endpaper plus there is some light soiling and yellowing on the outside paper edges plus the book is very, very slightly shelf cocked. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Bulman. The story of a master double agent working for the Soviet espionage system during the Cold War until he… Read More

Lubbock, Texas, USA: Texas Tech University Press, 1988. BI1 - A tight, clean, sound copy in black wraps with minor overall shelf wear with a patch of lossened surface gloss wrapping around the spine towards the bottom edge from a library label plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the copyright page, and the back endpaper. A collection of articles that examine the issue of nuclear war and the potential for it at the end of the 20th century. This book was published just before the break up of the Soviet empire. These articles came out of the 18th annual Comparative Literature Symposium held at Texas Tech University in 1985 and entitled "War and Peace: Perspectives in the Nuclear Age." The contributors include Norman A. Graebner, James W. Harper, Wolfgang T. Schlauch, Rainer Tetzlaff, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Leroy Matthiesen, Steven Schroeder, John K. Crane, Edward W. George, David Leon Higdon, Michael N. Nagler, and Barbara Wiedemann.… Read More