Category: Russian History

Prehistory of Western Siberia. Edited by Henry N. Michael.

By: Chernetsov, V. N. and W. Moszynska.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Montreal: Arctic Institute of North America/McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974.

Seller ID: 4031bd

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), folding maps, xxv+ 377 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This translation of several key articles published in the 1950s and 1960s by the late V. N. Chernetsov and his wife, Wanda Moszynska (who accompanied him on almost all field trips), deals with the sequence of cultures that occupied the lower -- that is, the northern -- reaches of the Ob River basin and, in considerable detail, with Ust-Poluy, a type-site of great importance for the early cutlural phases of western Siberia. It is the ninth in a series by the Arctic Institute of Nor...
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Frozen Footprints: Lessons in Freedom from a Survivor of the Siberian Slave-Labor Camps.

By: Gilewicz, Alicia with Price, Dr. Steve.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tampa, FLorida: INTI Publishing, [1998].

Seller ID: 05081scs

Octavo, softbound, vii, 172 pp. Fine. ÒThe story of a familiy's eight-year struggle for survival, first as prisoners in a Siberian prison camp, and later as refugees in Uzbekistan, Iran, and Africa. The first part of Frozen Footprints re-tells the horror one family faces in their quest for freedom in Russia during World War II, as millions of innocent civilians were dying from starvation and disease. It's a gripping story of good triumphing over evil and a testimony to the power of determination and persistence. In the second half of the book, Alicia teaches readers the 10 lessons in free...
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Five Thousand Miles in a Sledge: A Mid-Winter Journey across Siberia.

By: Gowing, Lionel F.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890.

Seller ID: m1889

1st American edition. Octavo, illustrated green cloth, xix, 257, [x] pp. Fold-out map, 31 illustrations by C. J. Uren. Near-Fine; spine slightly darkened.
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Russian Diary: A Distinguished Educator's Informal Report on Life and Higher Education in the Soviet Union.

By: Harnwell, Gaylord P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, [1960].

Seller ID: 70439s

Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), 125 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear. Ò...A perceptive, factual account by the President of the University of Pennsylvania of a trip he made, together with a small group of American college presidents, for the purpose of learning at first hand about higher education in the Soviet Union. Dr. Harnwell discusses in detail the institutions he visited in Moscow, Leningrad, Tbilisi, Samarkand, Tashkent, and Alma-Ata. At the different universities, technical schools, and medical institutions, he learned about courses of instruction, re...
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The Russian Search for Peace, February - October 1917.

By: Wade, Rex A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Stanford: University Press, 1969. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas584

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), [xii], 196 pp. Frontis. plates. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: During the turbulent period between the revolution that deposed the Tsar in February and the Bolshevik seizure of power in October, Russia's crucial problem was what to do about the war. This is a detailed study of the various alternatives considered during this period and their impact on the political fortunes of the country's leading political factions. The peace efforts of the moderate socialist faction, led by Iraki Tsereteli, are given special attention, since this faction, by co...
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Category: Russian History

Prehistory of Western Siberia. Edited by Henry N. Michael.

Frozen Footprints: Lessons in Freedom from a Survivor of the Siberian Slave-Labor Camps.

Five Thousand Miles in a Sledge: A Mid-Winter Journey across Siberia.

Russian Diary: A Distinguished Educator's Informal Report on Life and Higher Education in the Soviet Union.

The Russian Search for Peace, February - October 1917.