[By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.

[By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.

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[By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
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  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
  • [By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.
[By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.

[By Stalin's brother-in-law, executed 1941] Svanidze, A. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes (Materialy po istorii alarodiiskikh plemen). First edition. Tbilisi, 1937. In Russian.

$250.00

Сванидзе, А. [Александр Семенович]. Материалы по истории алародийских племен. Первое издание.
Тбилиси : Издательство Государственного университета, 1937. [4], 161, [5] с. ; 24х17 см.
Мягкая издательская обложка. Тираж 3 500 экз.
Обложка - хорошее: потертости, потертый корешок. Блок - хорошее: прочный.
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Svanidze, A. [Aleksandr Semenovich]. Materials on the History of the Alarodian Tribes. First edition.
Tbilisi : State University Publishing House, 1937. [4], 161, [5] pp. ; 24 x 17 cm.
Publisher's printed wrappers. Print run of 3,500 copies.
Binding good: rubbing and worn spine. Text block good: firm.

The principal scholarly work of Alexander Svanidze (1886-1941), Old Bolshevik, Soviet banker and diplomat, and brother of Ekaterine Svanidze, the first wife of Stalin. A Georgian from Kutaisi province who studied history and philology at the University of Jena, Svanidze served as Soviet trade representative in Germany, chaired the Foreign Trade Bank and was deputy chairman of the State Bank, while pursuing a second career as an Orientalist. He founded the Journal of Ancient History and made a well-known Russian translation of Rustaveli. This book builds on the theory of Fritz Hommel, arguing that the Urartians or Chaldians belonged to an "Alarodian" family of peoples and that the Kartvelian tribes, the Iberians, Mingrelians, Laz and Svans, descend from them. It assembles a wide range of material: Hittite and Urartian history, cuneiform inscriptions, the accounts of Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo, place names, and the Georgian chronicle as a historical source. It was signed for printing in March 1937 and issued in 3,500 copies by the university press in Tbilisi. Svanidze was arrested in December 1937, sentenced to death in 1940 and shot in August 1941; his wife and sister were also executed, and he was rehabilitated in 1956. Books by authors arrested in the Great Purge were routinely withdrawn from Soviet libraries, so surviving copies are scarcer than the print run suggests. The work is still cited in studies of Alarodian and Urartian questions and of Georgian ethnogenesis. It is a notable association and censorship-significant item for collectors of Stalin-era history, Caucasian studies and the literature of the repressed.

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