Russian History

ARAKCHEEV: GRAND VIZIER OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

Michael Jenkins
ARAKCHEEV: GRAND VIZIER OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Born in 1769, the son of a poor provincial landowner, Arakcheev rose quickly and became one of the most powerful men in all Russian history - an adviser, confidant, and executive to three tsars. Jenkins has created a vital portrait of a man whose role and influence on the Romanov dynasty are comparable with Rasputin's.
312 pages hardback (Faber & Faber, 1969)
Condition: good with some dust marking on uper page edges, d/w good but slightly faded around edges; has owner's signature.

RUSSIA: A SOCIAL HISTORY

D S Mirsky
RUSSIA: A SOCIAL HISTORY
Mirsky offers not a narrative of events but an attempt to present the more stable background of the various phases of Russian history, from the 9th century until the 1917 Revolution.
332 pages hardback (The Cresset Press, 1952)
Third impression of 1932 title.
Condition: good, with some dust damage & fading of page edges; d/w good, slightly grubby with some tears along top edges.

FIRE & WATER

Alex de Jonge
FIRE & WATER: A Life of Peter The Great
De Jonge offers a vividly readable, impeccably researched biography of the found er of modern Russia.
279 pages hardback (Collins, 1979)
Condition: good, with some dust soiling along top page edges; d/w fair with some fading and slight tearing along top edges; has owner's signature.

MY RUSSIA

Peter Ustinov
MY RUSSIA
Ustinov's general survey of Russian history and Russian identity, written to accompany his 1980s TV series.
224 pages hardback (Macmillan, 1983)
Condition: good, d/w has slightly faded spine.

LORD & PEASANT IN RUSSIA

Jerome Blum
LORD & PEASANT IN RUSSIA FROM THE NINTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
2nd printing of 1st edition.
659 pages hardback (Princeton Univ. Press, 1972)
Condition: good (unread) hardback pub. without d/w; has faded spin & owner's signature.

THE MAINSPRINGS OF RUSSIA

Maurice Baring
THE MAINSPRINGS OF RUSSIA
Baring's description of Russian life & society at the end of the 19th century
328 pages hardback (Thomas Nelson, 1914)
Condition: fair condition with owners' signatures.

MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIA UNER PETER I AND CATHERINE II

Basil Dmytryshyn (editor)
MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIA UNDER PETER I AND CATHERINE II
The efforts of both rulers to modrnise their country and transform it into a major European power are here examined by the two monarch, by contemproary observers (Russian and non-Russian), and by pre-Soviet and Soviet historians.
157 pages paperback (John Wiley & Sons, 1974)
Condition: fair with laminated cover but some fading of page edges; has owner's signature.

CATHERINE THE GREAT & THE EMERGENCE OF RUSSIA

Gladys Scott Thompson
CATHERINE THE GREAT & THE EMERGENCE OF RUSSIA
Attempts to delineate the character of the woman, brought at fifteen from a petty German court to be married to the heir to the Russian throne, who herself became Empress-autocrat.
294 pages hardback (English Universities Press, 1966)
Condition: small format hardback with faded, soiled white d/w; has faded and dust soiled page edges and owner's signature.

NICHOLAS I & OFFICIAL NATIONALITY IN RUSSIA

Nicholas Riasanovsky
NICHOLAS I & OFFICIAL NATIONALITY IN RUSSIA 1825-1855
For thirty years Russia was ruled by official Nationality, which depended on a particular interpretation of orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationalism, the guiding principles of the reign of Nicholas I.
296 pages paperback (Univ. of California Press, 1969)
Condition: has faded laminated cover; page edges are dust soiled and has owner's signature.

THE DECLINE OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA 1855-1914

Hugh Seton-Watson
THE DECLINE OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA 1855-1914
An account of the period of Russian history between the Crimean War and the First World War; the time in which Communism was born and in which the foundations of present-day Russia were laid.
406 pages paperback (Methuen, 1968)
Condition: has dust/shelf soiled page edges and stained back cover; has owner's signature.

THE RUSSIAN PEASANT & OTHER STUDIES

Sir John Maynard
THE RUSSIAN PEASANT & OTHER STUDIES
Maynard (1865-1943) was a member of the Fabian Society and long-time member of the Indian Civil Service. He witnessed the coronation of Nicholas II in 1892 and visited Soviet Russia in the 1930s. The book covers more ground than the peasantry and is rather a general book on the early Soviet period.
640 pages paperback (Collier Books, 1962)
Condition: unread paperback with shelf soiled page edges and owner's signature.

PETER THE GREAT: REFORMER OR REVOLUTIONARY

Marc Raeff
PETER THE GREAT: REFORMER OR REVOLUTIONARY
Problems in European Civilization
A series of articles on various aspects of Peter's personality and policies.
109 pages paperback (D C Heath & Co, 1963)
Condition: has very faded pages and shelf worn cover with owner's signature.

ORIGINS OF THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA

Marc Raeff
ORIGINS OF THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA
The Eighteenth-Century Nobility
Investigates the 18th century leadership group from which the Russian intelligentsia developed.
248 pages paperback (Harcourt Brace, 1966)
Condition: has faded page edges and owner's signature.

A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICE

Richard Deacon
A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICE
A highly readable historical account of the secret Service in Russia from Ivan the Terrible's dreaded Oprichniki right up to the Soviet KGB.
352 pages paperback £3.00 (New English Library, 1975)
Condition: fair with faded pages and owner's signature.

THE NEW IMPERIALISM

Hugh Seton-Watson
THE NEW IMPERIALISM
Traces Russian imperialism from its 19th century origins into the Soviet era of the first half of the 20th century.
144 pages paperback (Bodley Head, 1971)
Condition: has faded pages & dust stained edges, owner's signature.

RUSSIA (2 vols)

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
RUSSIA: 2 volumes
Two volume set of the revised & enlarged 1905 edition detailing Mackenzie Wallace's travels in late 19th century Tsarist Russia.
487 & 456 pages hardbacks (Cassell & Co, 1905
Condition: both volumes have faded pages (esp. edges) and owners' signatures. Volume one has slightly bent top outside corner, worn cloth cover (marked along the spine), slightly broken inside front binding and residue of bookseller's label on front cover. Volume 2 has bookseller's label on front cover.