Consumer's Co-Operatives in the U.S.S.R.
by Various
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Moscow: USSR. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1962. First English Edition. Hardcover. Wear to the extremities of the paper covered boards and cloth spine, some scuffing, discard stamp front and back end papers. ; A tight solid book. Liberally illustrated with 150 B&W and colorised photos, maps. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 155 pages; This book is an book of praise for the co-operative system in Russia in mid century put out by the government of the time. It describes the structure of the system, how it is "broken up into 17,500 consumers' societies which are associated into 2780 district unions, into 158 regional, territorial and republican unions into the USSR Central Union of Consumers' Societies (Centrosoyus), the latter is composed of unions of consumers' societies of the 15 Union Republics." Text is in Russian, English, French and Italian. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16577
- Title
- Consumer's Co-Operatives in the U.S.S.R.
- Author
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- USSR
- Place of Publication
- Moscow
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- RUSSIA, moscow, CO-OPERATIVEs, USSR
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Russia;
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Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
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Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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