The autobiography of an American schoolteacher, who left the USA for Russia in 1932 in order to discover whether communism was a hope for the future. The book documents Wettlin's marriage to a Soviet theatre director, her exile in the Crimea during World War II and her view of glasnost.
MAXIM GORKEY - MOTHER PREFACE There are books in every language mat are landmarks, even turningpoints, in the history of the literature in that language. Such a book for Russians is Maxim Gorkys Mother, for, though it was written ten years before the establishment of Soviet power in Russia, we count it the first stone laid in the foundations of ...
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Raduga
Date Published: 1984
Description: Kalaushin, Boris. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Clean text. "Discard" stamp on title pg. Card holder on back inside cover pg. 18 p. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: A [Dell] Laurel Edition [1963]
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good. First edition. Dell Laurel Edition 8010 with 75 cents cover price. 380 pages plus 1 page of notes. VG copy [reading crease/cocking to spine, front cover corner creasing, cheap paper tanning] with owner's name at the top of the first page. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Collier
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Second printing. 352 pgs in gd+ condition, cover has some wear; appears unread, spine has no crease. Forward by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. A mother, a son...and a revolution in the making: a novel of Tsarist Russia in upheaval. read more
Description: Kalaushin, Boris. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Clean text. "Discard" stamp on title pg. Card holder on back inside cover pg. 18 p. read more
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Raduga
Date Published: 1985
Description: Kalaushin, Boris. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Clean text. "Discard" stamp on title pg. Card holder on back inside cover pg. 14 p. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Moscow: Raduga Publishers
Date Published: 1958
Description: Very Good. Trade Paperback. Very good; oversize picture story book, slight signs of wear to spine ends and corners. One of a Russian series of stories for young children about Dunno, a boy who is always getting into trouble. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Foreign Language Publishing House; Library of Selected Soviet Literature...
Date Published: 1953
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Collectible. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Decorative cloth, gilt, 497 pp. illus.; 21 cm. Translated from the Russian. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear & creased back flap, protected in a mylar book cover. Winner of the Stalin Prize, 1950. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Raduga Publishing
Date Published: 1983
Description: Bisengaliev, V.K. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Faint sticker remnant and light surface wear cover, otherwise OK. 22 p. Includes illustrations. 8.75" x 11". Stapled binding. Audience: Juvenile read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House
Date Published: 1952
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. 548 p. Author photo portrait frontispiece. Author b. 1909, writes autobiographical intro. "A woman whose work is in every way equal to that of a man learns to be independent, becomes confident in her ability, develops strength and integrity of character, and this in its turn facilitates the development of her creative powers. " 1st book in a trilogy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pharos (1992) 1st ed
Description: 24.00. 324 pages, Photo section, Fine cond. in VG+ DJ. She went to Russia in 1932 to look for a job. If you REQUEST A SCAN from me I will send you one. Pharos (1992) 1st ed, read more
Description: Boris Kalaushin drawings. Four staple-bound titles in colour illustrated card covers. 4to, Four separate titles, published between 1985 and 1988. Each shows a bit of wear, but no childish markings: vg condition. The price is for the lot of four. read more
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Literary reminiscences and autobiographical fragments
