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The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia
by Pipes, Richard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0300098480
- ISBN 13
- 9780300098488
- Seller
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About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xi, [3], 153, [9] p. Occasional footnotes. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Sergey Petrovich Degayev (also spelled Degaev; 1857 in Moscow 1921 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was a Russian terrorist, an agent of the Okhrana, and the murderer of inspector of secret police Georgy Sudeykin. After emigrating to the United States, Degayev took the name, Alexander Pell, and became a prominent American mathematician, the founder of school of Engineering at the University of South Dakota. The Dr. Alexander Pell scholarship is named in his honor. Richard Edgar Pipes (born July 11, 1923) is a Polish-American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union, who espoused a strong anti-communist point of view throughout his career. In 1976 he headed Team B, a team of analysts organized by the Central Intelligence Agency who analyzed the strategic capacities and goals of the Soviet military and political leadership. From 1958 to 1996, Pipes worked at Harvard University.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71650
- Title
- The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia
- Author
- Pipes, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0300098480
- ISBN 13
- 9780300098488
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Dagayev, Degaev, Okhrana, Georgy Sudeykin, Assassination, Alexander Pell, Emigre, Mathematician, Terrorism, Vera Figner, Lopatin, Georgii Sudeikin, Lev Tikhomirov
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