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At the heart of the Cold War

GRINEV, P

Kak umiraiut v S.S.S.R [How They Die in the USSR. Issue 1 [and only]]

Diocesan Publishing House for The Russian Press Digest, New York, 1954.

Fine example of this rare NY-printed pamphlet against the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular.

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Illegal in Soviet Union until the late 1980s

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Lebedinyi stan. Stikhi 1917 - 1920 g [The Encampment of the Swans. Poems from 1917-1921].
Russia (probably Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk), Mid-1970s.

A computer-printed samizdat of Marina Tsvetaeva's epic poetic cycle about the October Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War, An interesting illegal production of a text banned in Soviet Union and not published in Russia until 1991. One of the major texts by Russia's great poetess.

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Oil issues at the start of the Cold War

SANTALOV, A[rsenii] A[lexeevich]

Sovremennie problem nefti v kapitalisticheskikh stranakh [Contemporary Oil Problems in Capitalist Countries]
Pravda, Moskva, 1946.

"The struggle for oil between England and the USA", "US oil monopolies go on the offensive" and "The role of oil in the Second World War" - among the 7 parts of Santalov's lecture on oil, the West and the Soviet Union. Uncommon.

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In striking wrappers

SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich

Odin den Ivana Denisovicha [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]
Flegon Press, London, 1962.

First edition of the celebrated author's first book § a famous 'pirate' edition published without Solzhenitsyn's consent. A very good copy, with the striking original wrappers.

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