Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated. English text. 48p. Airliner welcome booklet for "a high-speed modern comfortable TU-134 liner of Aeroflot . . . provided with the newest radio navigation equipment permitting flights in any weather," with a seating capacity of 72. Map of city, some descriptive text. In 1914 the name of the city "Saint Petersburg" was changed to Petrograd and in 1924 to Leningrad. In 1991, it was changed back to Saint Petersburg. Aeroflot is one of the oldest airlines in the world, tracing its history back to 1923. During the Soviet era, Aeroflot was the Soviet national airlin... View More...
Unmarked. Some edge wear. Section of color plates. Main facts of the country. 72p. Measures 4.5x7.5 inches.
The Republic of Azerbaijan is a country in the Transcaucasian region, situated at the crossroads of Southwest Asia and Southeastern Europe. • • • View More...
Unmarked throughout. Some rubbing around the edges. Produced by the University of California Natural Reserve System for the Tahoe Baikal Institute. Text in Russian and English. Maps, illustrations, photographs. Pribaikalsky National Park was developed in 1986 in the Irkutsk Province. 32p. • • • View More...
Articles include "The May 2004 Enlargement of the European Union: View From Two Years Out" by Alexander B. Murphy, "Trouble in the East: The New Entrants and Challenges to the European Ideal" by Melanie Feakins and Luiza Bialasiewicz, "EU Enlargement, the New Central European Member States, and Austria" by Peter Jordan, "China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010): From "Getting Rich First" to "Common Property" and more. • • • View More...
A few pencil marks in the books received section. Illustrated. pp169-262.
Articles topics include Brinkman on Mesopotamia; Donner on early Arabic inscriptions from Al-Hanakiyya; Ritner on a Uterine amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection; Killean on the development of Western grammars of Arabic; Zittler on the small shrine of Enlil at Nippur; Pardee on three Ugaritic tablet joins; and Whiting on a copper coin of Al-Muzaffar II Mahmud of Hamuh. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Commissioned and written under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Georgetown University. Concludes that East Germany's margin of maneuverability with respect to Berlin and West Germany seems destined to remain sharply circumscribed. • • • View More...
Color images. Text in English, with a page of Turkish vocabulary. Istanbul is a city in Turkey that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait. The Old City reflects cultural influences of the many empires that once ruled here. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Small tear at spine. Topics include dimensions of poverty, public policy, private responses, and more.
Contributors include Larisa Zubova and Natalia Kovalyonva, Jeanine D. Braithwaite, Mark C. Foley, Venanzio Vella, and others. References. Index. 281p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Maps. A few black and white images. Notes. Glossary of Russian terms. Index. 272p. Using case studies to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Includes "The Art of the Bribe: Corruption and Everyday Practice in the Late Stalinist USSR" by James Heinzen, "The Nation As Object: Race, Blood, and Biopolitics in Interwar Romania" by Marius Turda, "Looking for Solidarnose in Central Asia: The Role of Human Rights Organizations In Political Change" by Brian Grodsky, "The Impossibility of Shrugging One's Shoulders: O'Harists, O'Hara, and Post-1989 Polish Poetry" by Joanna Nizynska, "National Heroic Narratives in the Baltics as a Source for Nonviolent Political Action" by Guntis Smidchens. Reviews. A selection of reference book... View More...
Unmarked text. Bumped corner. Section on Soviet Dissent. Contributors include Ann Komaromi, Benjamin Nathans, Thomas C. Wolfe, Emma Lieber, Gregory Vitarbo and otehr. Reviews, ads and more. Interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. pp 605-826. • • • View More...
Unmarked. As new except for a slight tear at spine. Folded exhibition poster attached inside back cover by publisher. This book tells of a challenging exhibition held in one of the major Russian museums-the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
This conceptual project for an imaginary museum comments on 20th century art and includes texts by Russian and foreign art critics as well as a number of previously untranslated Soviet avant-garde texts about museums and proletarian folklore. • • • View More...
