Not much has happened here this last year, I’m sorry to report.  The collection is getting packed up and moved to a new home.  Come the new year and the unboxing of the books there will be more content.  Sit tight and be patient, this site will live again soon.

For all my readers on the sub-continent!  Many of the visitors to this site come from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.  In their day the Soviet presses were well-distibuted and well-liked  throughout India.  The result is a fondness for these unusual books, a fondness I share.  This post is for you: Jawaharlal Nehru in the Soviet […]

So, I just finished posting all the scans of the all the covers of all my Soviet books [though not really all, I’m sure I’ve missed some, and new books have come in since I started the project.]  The list of pages is in the right-hand column.  Lots of pictures to look at.

I have just started a project to put all the scans and photos of the covers and dustjackets of my books online.  On the right, in the list of pages, you can find the beginnings of this project.

Maybe this isn’t so interesting.  A friend asked to see what the books on the shelves look like, well here it is: On top of the shelf here is the collected Marx + Engles. On top here is the collected Lenin. This shelf is mostly pamphlets.

Igor Zaitsev (ed.) – Soviet Rock This is one of the latest (newest) books in my collection, from 1991, right at the end of things, and it shows. The book discusses punk, metal etc., but goes farther and outlines some of the non-socialist politics around the music [anarchist punks, nationalist and fascist metal fans]. This […]

Oscar van Staveren’s Zubovsky Boulevard This is the only other person I’ve found who also collects Soviet books in English.  There don’t seem to be too many of us in the world, or at least not too many with websites.  He’s a Dutch librarian.  He has a very flashy website.  So flashy that his site […]