LEADER 01914cam a2200325u 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20221013115849.0 008 821029s1951 nyu 000 0 eng 010 51010253 040 DLC |cCarP |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 1 eng |hfre 043 e-ur--- 050 00 DK25 |b.C98 1951 082 914.7046 100 1 Custine, Astolphe, |cmarquis de, |d1790-1857. 240 10 Russie en 1839. |lEnglish 245 10 Journey for our time : |bthe journals of the Marquis de Custine / |cedited and translated by Phyllis Penn Kohler ; introduction by Walter Bedell Smith. 260 New York : |bPellegrini & Cudahy, |c[1951] 300 viii, 383 p. ; |c22 cm. 520 '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 580 Donation of Anatole Shub 651 0 Russia |xDescription and travel. 700 1 Kohler, Phyllis Penn, |eeditor |etranslator 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6914_704600000000000_CUS |70 |8GEN |9160861OSA |bOSA |d2022-10-03 |eShub |l0 |o914.7046 CUS |r2022-10-03 |w2022-10-03 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 BY0lbkYN 992 01 914_704600000000000_CUS |bQYV_SZVTZZZZZZZZZZZ_N57 966 |cIn the Research Room