Knowing the enemy of the Cold War – Rare LOC bibliography of Soviet Geography, 1951

Nicholas Rodionoff, Ed.: Soviet Geography. A Bibliography. 2 vol. (all published). Parts I: U. S. S. R. Geography by Subject. Part II: Administrational, Natural and Economic Regions. Washington D. C.: The Library of Congress, Reference Department, 1951.

26,5x19 cm. XX, 668 pages. Typewriting on thin paper, bound in contemporary library's half-cloth with marbled boards and coloured tail cut, the original light blue wrappers bound in at the end of each volume.

Particularly rare bibliography of geographical works „emanating from, and descriptive of the U. S. S. R.“ (preface) and Csarist Russia from the 19th ct. onwards, compiled by the Library of Congress Reference Department.

Content: Present work contains 4421 positions mainly in Russian, but also in different foreign languages in the fields of geographical science, of expeditions, explorations and discoveries, of economic, historical, physical, political and military geography, of cartography (with a chapter about atlases) among others, covering all Republics of the U. S. S. R. The work is enriched with a comprehensive indices of authors and subjects. – In 1969 the New York based Greenwood Press published a reprint of present work.

Condition: Ex-library set from the Academy of Science of the C. S. S. R., with library stamp and numbering at title pages verso and last pages, as well as printed library labels mounted on rear sides of rear wrappers and rear covers.