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'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...about the Russia of Joseph Stalin, and not a bad book about the Russia of Brezhnev and Kosygin.' It is this paradox which made Custine and his book a suitable subject for the Chichele lectures which the eminent American diplomat and historian, George Kennan, gave at Oxford in 1969 and upon which the present work is based. Astolphe Louis Léonor, 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. He returned, in his own words, 'the Partisan of Constitutions," and wrote that 'whoever has well examined that country will be content to live anywhere else.'
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- PublisherLondon: Hutchinson
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0091098300
- ISBN 13 9780091098308
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages145
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Blue cloth with dustjacket. Condition: Good copy. 1st edition. Jacket design by Craig Dodd. This book is based on the Chichelle Lectures given by the author at Oxford in 1969, when he discussed Marquis de Custine and his book 'La Russie en 1839'. Contents: 1). The man. 2). The motives of the journey. 3). Custines 'Road to Russia'. 4). Custine in Russia. 5). The book. 6). The reaction to 'Russia in 1839'. 7). Custine in 'Retrospect'. With reference notes and index. 4 illustrations. XII + 145 pag. Size: 22cmx14,5cm. Seller Inventory # 022282
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First British edition. INSCRIBED by George F. Kennan and dated in 1976 on front end-paper. The inscribee is Jane Thompson, the wife of notable diplomat Llewellyn 'Tommy' Thompson who, like Kennan, was a Soviet specialist with the Stare Department. (Envelope from Ms. Thompson laid-in. Fine in fine dust jacket. Kennan was one of the American foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages. Seller Inventory # 3116400
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