Scholars and Thinkers

Code: 017994
Sotsiologicheskie Organizatsii Sankt-Peterburga i Severo-Zapada
Spravochnik
[ Sotsiologicheskie Organizatsii Sankt-Peterburga i Severo-Zapada : Spravochnik ]
St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.50

This handbook includes information about 60 sociological organizations of St.-Petersburg and the North-East region: Apatity, Arkhangelsk, Velikii Novgorod, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Pskov, Suktyvkar.

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Code: 020452
Paips, Richard (Pipes, Richard)
Ia Zhil: Memuary Neprimknyvshego

[ Ia Zhil: Memuary Neprimknyvshego : ]
Moscow: Moskovskaia Shkola Politicheskikh Issledovanii, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.70

This is the memoirs of Richard Pipes (b. 1923), a world renowned historian of Russia. He left Poland, the country of his birth, right before WWII at the age of 16 for the USA. Pipes became a professor at Harvard University; he also served as an adviser to President Regan and in the National Security Council.

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Code: 021740
Kafanov, A.I., V.A. Kudriashov
Vydaiushchiesia Uchenye -- Biogeografy
Bibliograficheskii Spravochnik
[ Vydaiushchiesia Uchenye -- Biogeografy : Bibliograficheskii Spravochnik ]
Moscow: Nauka, 2007
Language: Russian

Price: $ 22.00

This book presents the first comprehensive illustrated overview of biographical and bibliographical data relating to all fields of bio-geographers. It Includes brief biographies with bibliographical references of 289 Russian and foreign scientists of the 17-20th centuries, gives a brief account of their bio-geographical concepts and contains a list of their most important publications.

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Code: 021645
Soifer, V.N (Soyfer, Valerii)
Ten` Lenina Ego Usynovila...
Dokumental`nyi Detektiv ob Odnom Leninskom Laureate i Sovetskikh Genetikakh
[ Ten` Lenina Ego Usynovila... : Dokumental`nyi Detektiv ob Odnom Leninskom Laureate i Sovetskikh Genetikakh ]
Moscow: CheRo, DDF Foundation, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

Valerii Soifer is the author of the bestselling first chronicle of biology of the soviet period “Power and Science: The History of the Destruction of Genetics in the USSR”, first published in 1989. This book is about academician-biologist Nikolai Dubinin.

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Code: 026425
Malia, Martin
Aleksandr Gertsen i Proiskhozhdenie Russkogo Sotsializma. 1812-1855

[ Aleksandr Gertsen i Proiskhozhdenie Russkogo Sotsializma. 1812-1855 : ]
Moscow: Territoriia budushchego, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 42.00

The book is one of the best intellectual biographies of the Russian thinker Alexander Gertsen (Herzen) written by an American historian and a specialist in Russia. It raises the issues of the origin and evolution of Gertsen’s political views, examines his social and political activity and his influence on the development of Russian philosophical ideas.

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Code: 010777
Toinbi, Arnold Dzh. (Toynbee, A. J.))
Perezhitoe. Moi Vstrechi

[ Perezhitoe. Moi Vstrechi : ]
Moscow: Airis-Progress, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

This is the first translation into Russian of Acquaintances by the famous English historian and sociologist A.J. Toynbee (1889- 1975) and a reprint of the 1994 edition of Experiences.

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Code: 014597
Iasnyi, Naum (Jasny, Naum)
Sovetskie Ekonomisty 1920-kh Godov: Dolg Pamiati

[ Sovetskie Ekonomisty 1920-kh Godov: Dolg Pamiati : ]
Moscow: Izd.i dom "Delo" RANKHiGS, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 52.00

This book translated into Russian for the first time provides information on the Soviet economists of the 1917-1931 period who argued an alternative path for socialist planning: Vladimir Groman, Vladimir Bazarov, Abram Ginzburg, Nikolai Kondrat’ev and others.

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Code: 031588
Popper, Karl
Neokonchennyi Poisk
Intellektual`naia Avtobiografiia
[ Neokonchennyi Poisk : Intellektual`naia Avtobiografiia ]
Moscow: Praksis, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father`s well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most.

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Code: 006704
V.I. Vernadskii: Pro et Contra
Antologiia Literatury o V.I. Vernadskom za Sto let (1898-1998)
[ V.I. Vernadskii: Pro et Contra : Anthology about V.I. Vernadskii for one hundred years: 1898-1998 ]
St. Petersburg: RKhGI, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 36.00

This book studies the legacy of the outstanding Russian scientist V. Vernadskii (1863-1945). He is a unique figure since the Renaissance in terms of the variety his scientific interests and achievements: a geologist by education, he is widely recognized as one of the founders of modern geography and biology.

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Code: 029160
Lotman, Iu.M.; Mints, Z.G.; Egorov, B.F.
Iu.M. Lotman, Z.G. Mints - B.F. Egorov: Perepiska 1954-1965

[ Iu.M. Lotman, Z.G. Mints - B.F. Egorov: Correspondence 1954-1965 : ]
Tallinn: TLU, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 59.00

This is a correspondence among the three leaders of what became known as Tartu-Moscow Semiotic school: Iu.M. Lotman, Z.G. Mints, B.F. Egorov (1954-1965). Letters by Z.G. Mints and B.F. Egorov are published for the first time, Lotman`s letters are compared with the originals and published without cuts.

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Code: 021051
Eliasberg, G.A
Odin iz Prezhnego Peterburga"
S.L. Tsinberg—Istorik Evreiskoi Literatury, Kritik i Publitsist
[ "...One from former Peterburg" : S.L. Tsinberg—historian of Jewish literature, critic and publicist ]
Moscow: RGGU, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 41.60

This monograph studies the legacy of S.L. Tsinberg (1873-1939), a historian of Jewish literature, critic and publicist. One of his the most significant works is "Istoriia Evreiskoi Pechati v Rossii v Sviazi s Obshchestvennymi Techeniiami" (1915).

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Code: 031607
Lettsev, Viktor M
Prezhde Vsego, On Iskal Podlinnosti”
Ocherk Zhiznennogo i Tvorcheskogo Puti V.V. Zen`kovskogo
[ "Before everything, he sought authenticity" : Essay on the life and working path of V.V. Zen`kovskii ]
Kiev: Dukh i Litera, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.00

This is an account of works by the philosopher and historian of social thought V. Zen`kovskii (1881-1962). It also traces his spiritual evolution and describes various areas of his studies: philosophical psychology, personology, anthropology and Christian philosophy.

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Code: 019938
Shilovskii, M.V
Polneishaia Samootverzhennaia Predannost` Nauke": G.N. Potanin: Biograficheskii Ocherk

[ "Complete self-sacrificing devotion to scholarship": G.N. Potanin: Biographical sketch : ]
Novosibirsk: Sova, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.60

This is a a scholarly biography of Grigorii Potanin (1835-1920), an explorer of Central Asia and Siberia, specialist in geography, folklore studies, ethnography, history, botany, etc. Special attention is paid to his role in the social life of Siberia in the second half of the 19th-early 20th centuries.

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Code: 006034
Leonova, L.S
Ia ne Mogu Uiti v Odnu Nauku.."
Obshchestvenno-Politicheskie Vzgliady V.I. Vernadskogo: Naucnoe Izdanie
[ "I cannot just escape into science…" : The Political and social views of V.I. Vernadskii: Academic publication ]
St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.50

V.I. Vernadskii (1863-1945) was a major figure in Russian and Soviet science, humanities, and public life. He laid the foundation of modern Earth sciences that include geochemistry, biogeochemistry, radiology, hydrogeology, etc.

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Code: 032191
Smit, V.Ia
Ia Vody Lety P`iu..."
Vospominaniia
[ "I drink water of Lethe...: Memoirs : Vospominaniia ]
Moscow: Novyi khronograf, 2015
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

Vil`iam Arturovich Smit, a Russian professor of chemistry, remembers his parents and his life. His father Artur Lehel was born in Austro-Hungary, participated in the 1919 Hungarian revolution, emigrated to America in 1920 where he soon joined the Communist party and changed his last name to Smith.

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Code: 018357
Shchedrina, T.G
Ia Pishy kak Ekho Drugogo..."
Ocherki Intellektual`noi Biografii Gustava Shpeta
[ "I Write like the echo of another…" : Sketches of an intellectual biography of Gustav Shpet ]
Moscow: Progress-Traditsiia, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.50

This monograph is an intellectual biography of Gustav Shpet (1879-1937), one of the most important Russian philosophers of the 20th century, who was also a linguist, historian, psychologist, ethnologist, and literary critic.

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Code: 015816-2
Zhivia v Chuzhikh Slovakh…"
Vospominaniia o L.N. Gumileve
[ "Living in assumed words…" : Memoirs about L.N. Gumilev ]
St. Petersburg: Rostok, Memorial`nyi Muzei-Kvartira L.N. Gumileva, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 42.00

This is the second extended edition of memoirs about Lev Gumilev (1912-1992), the son of Russian poets Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, and an outstanding scholar of encyclopedic scale who worked in several disciplines: history, culture, geography, philosophy, psychology, and oriental studies.

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Code: 027907
Mann, Iurii V
Pamiat`-Schast`e, Kak i Pamiat`-Bol`..."
Vospominaniia, Dokumenty, Pis`ma
[ "Memory as happiness, as well as memory as pain..." : Memoirs, documents, letters ]
Moscow: RGGU, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 35.00

This book is a collection of memoirs by outstanding historian of Russian literature Iurii Mann (b. 1929), which embrace the events of literary and social life from the mid-20th century to the present, and include letters from Russian and foreign cultural figures.

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Code: 019846
Tlif, Irina
Koren` Rozhdeniia Moego..."
Stat`i, Arkhivnye Dokumenty, Vospominaniia po Istorii Roda V.V. Rosanova
[ "The Root of my birth…" : Articles, archive documents, memoirs on the history of the origin of V.V. Rozanov ]
Kostroma: DiAr, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.90

This is a collection of articles, archive documents, and memoirs on the history of the origin of the Russian philosopher V.V. Rozanov (1856-1919) and his family. Vasilli Rozanov was born in the town of Vetluga in the Kaluga`s Gubernia.

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Code: 024963
Ul`iankina, T.I
Dikaia Istoricheskaia Polosa..."
Sud`by Rossiiskoi Nauchnoi Emigratsii v Evrope (1940-1950)
[ "The wild historical period..." : The Fates of Russian scientist emigres to Europe (1940-1950) ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.00

This book is a historical study in the life of Russian emigre scientists of the first and second waves to Europe and later to the USA. The study is based on materials of "Russian" archives in the USA. This book includes a biographical dictionary of 177 scientists from Russia.

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Code: 029822
Kartavtsov, I.M
Tut Byla Podlinnaia Russkaia Zhizn``"
Fragmenty Vospominanii
[ "There was a true Russian life..." : Fragments of memoirs ]
Moscow: Minuvshee, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

The book is based on the memoirs of Ilia Kartavtsov (1895-1971), a Russian bibliographer, genealogist and historian of the 20th century. (0.325 kg.)

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Code: 013092
Chto Vy Delaete so Mnoi!": Kak Podvodili pod Rasstrel
Dokumenty o Zhizni i Gibeli Vladimira Nikolaevicha Kashina
[ "What are you doing to me!": How good grounds was given for people to be shot : Documents about the life and death of V.N. Kashin ]
St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

In comparison with other "ideological" institutions, the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences was relatively free from political campaigns and purges by the standards of the sadly known 1937.

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Code: 007380
Iakovenko, M.M
Kuda Ushla Moia Zhizn?.."
Povestvovanie v Pismakh, Dnevnikovykh Zapisiakh, Vospominaniiakh i Ofitsialnykh Dokumentakh o Zhizni i Trudakh Aleksandra Alekseevicha Vanovskogo
[ "Where did my life go?" : A Narrative in letters, notes, memoirs and official documents about the life and works of A.A. Vanovskii ]
Moscow: Zvenia, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

Aleksandr Alekseevich Vanovskii (1874-1967) was participant of the 1st congress of the RSDRP and one of the organizers of the Kiev and Moscow uprisings in 1905. Later he left the party and the country and spent the rest of his life in Japan.

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Code: 027559
Ul`iankina, T.I
"Dikaia Istoricheskaia Polosa..."
Sud`by Rossiiskoi Nauchnoi Emigratsii v Evrope (1941-1950)
[ "Wild historical period..." : Destinies of Russian scientific emigrants in Europe (1941-1950) ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.00

This book studies the history of Russian scholar emigration in Europe of the first and second waves of emigration. T.I. Ul`iankina, professor of history, collected the documents on the post-war life stories of many Russian scholars, many of whom came through the camps for displaced persons, re-emigration to the USA and more.

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Code: 005903
Koshelev, Viacheslav
Aleksei Stepanovich Khomiakov
Zhizneopisanie v Dokumentakh, Rassuzhdeniiakh i Razyskaniiakh
[ A Biography in documents, discourse, and discussions : Zhizneopisanie v Dokumentakh, Rassuzhdeniiakh i Razyskaniiakh ]
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.50

Aleksei Stepanovich Khomiakov (1804-1860) made contributions to about fifteen areas, he was a well-known Russian Orthodox thinker, philosopher, poet, historian, mathematician, businessmen, legal scholar, sociologist, publicist, and more.

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Code: 031584
Iakovich, Elena
Doch` Filosofa Shpeta v Fil`me Eleny Iakovich
Polnaia Versiia Vospominanii Mariny Gustavovny Shtorkh
[ A Daughter of philosopher Shpet in the film of Elena Iakovich : Complete version of memoirs ]
Moscow: AST, Corpus, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

Marina Gustavovna Shtorkh is a daughter of Gustav Shpet (1879-1937), one of the most important Russian philosophers of the 20th century. He spent the last two years of his life (1935-1937) in exile in Siberia.

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Code: 030838
Arutiunov, S.A
Zhizn` Kak Tekst: Avtobibliografiia

[ A life as text: Autobibliography : ]
Moscow - Helsinki: ARC, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 17.00

This is a new book of Russian anthropologist and ethnologist Sergei Arutiunov (b. 1932). It includes the chronology of his life and a complete bibliography of his works.

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Code: 015330
Chelovek s Otkrytym Serdtsem
Biograficheskoe i Epistoliarnoe Nasledie Ivana Mikhailovicha Grevsa (1840-1941)
[ A Man with an open heart : Biographical and epistolary heritage of Ivan Mikhailovich Grevs (1840-1941) ]
: NII Khimii SPbGU, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 39.00

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Code: 032114
Uchenyi v Epokhu Peremen
N.I. Kareev v 1914-1931 gg.: Issledovaniia i Materialy
[ A scientist in a time of change: N.I. Kareev in 1914-1931 : Research and materials ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2015
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This book is about the last sixteen years of the life of Nikolai Kareev (1850-1931), an outstanding Russian scholar. He is the author of numerous works on education, culture, historiography, philosophy of history, and sociology.

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Code: 032205
Bel`skaia, Galina
Korotkaia Progulka pered Dolgim Snom

[ A Short walk before the long sleep : ]
Moscow: Novyi khronograf, 2015
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This is a book of memoirs of Galina Petrovna Bel`skaia, the editor of history at the the magazine "Znanie-Sila", an ethnographer, archaeologist and ethnologist. Her memoirs are about her childhood, her friends and amazing people she met in her life.

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