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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 145 p. Audience: General/trade. Some bumping to bottom corners, spine. Former owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. DJ has some edgewear, a few tiny tears and a half-inch tear rear. Otherwise, a rather nice copy.
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Princeton. 1971. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0691051879. 145 pages. hardcover. keywords: Russia History. FROM THE PUBLISHER-For even if we admit that La Russie en 1839 was not a very good book about Russia in 1839, we are confronted with the disturbing fact that it was an excellent book, probably in fact the best of books, about the Russia of Joseph Stalin, and not a bad book about the Russia of Brezhnev and Kosygin. Astolphe Lous Leonor, Marquis de Custine, left his native Paris in the summer of 1839 and journeyed to Russia to substantiate his belief in government by aristocracy and to seek arguments against representative government. As a diplomat in Moscow in the 1930s, George Kennan was intrigued by the Marquis's account of his trip. Writing now from a historian's perspective, he discusses the book, its author, his motives and impressions. His provocative conclusion, a historiographic essay, attests to the continuing fascination of Russia, the mysteries that remain to be solved about Custine's experiences, and the place of such books in history. A foreign service career officer, Mr. Kennan served as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1952. He is now professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His publications include Russia Leaves the War, awarded the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer and other prizes; The Decision to Intervene; and From Prague After Munich, Diplomatic Papers, 1988-1940. inventory #42280.