General Information

Uniform Title

Russie en 1839.

Author/Creator

Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 1790-1857.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Pellegrini & Cudahy, [1951]

Physical Description

viii, 383 p. ; 22 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Kohler, Phyllis Penn, (editor translator)

Contents/Summary

Summary

'This book is banned in Soviet Russia today. Although it is the disillusioned report of a journey through the Russia of the Czars in 1839, the conditions described are so closely parallel to those of the present that more than a century after its publication an American general and ambassador wrote: "I could have taken many pages verbatim from Custine's journal and ... sent them to the State Department as my own officials reports ... The parallels between Custine's Russian and that of the present day are dramatic - the merciless despotism, fear of the secret police, political prisons, the purges, "confessions," censorship and slavery, the rewriting of history and the dream of world conquest"--from the cover

Subjects

Subject

Russia > Description and travel.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited and translated by Phyllis Penn Kohler ; introduction by Walter Bedell Smith.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	914.7046 CUS		General Stacks	-

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