История Кабарды с древнейших времен до наших дней / редакционная коллегия: Н. А. Смирнов (ответственный редактор), З. В. Анчавадзе, Н. Е. Гуревич, В. П. Крикунов, Т. Х. Кумыков, И. Ф. Мужев, Х. М. Сабанчиев ; утверждено к печати Кабардино-Балкарским научно-исследовательским институтом.
Москва : Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1957. 394 с. ; 23 см.
Твёрдый переплёт. Тираж 3 300 экз.
На переднем форзаце - дарственная надпись Л. И. Лаврова редактору и соавтору З. В. Анчавадзе, синими чернилами, датированная 28 августа 1957 г.
Переплёт - хороший: незначительный износ вверху корешка, лёгкая потёртость углов. Блок - хороший: пятна от жидкости на с. 19 (несколько коричневых пятен в нижней половине листа, местами задевающих текст) ; в целом равномерное возрастное пожелтение, блок крепкий, текст полный.
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History of Kabarda from Ancient Times to the Present Day / editorial board: N. A. Smirnov (editor-in-chief), Z. V. Anchvadze, N. E. Gurevich, V. P. Krikounov, T. Kh. Kumykov, I. F. Muzhev, and Kh. M. Sabanchiev ; approved for publication by the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Research Institute.
Moscow : Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR (Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences), 1957. 394 pp. ; 23 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of 3,300 copies.
Signed by co-author Leonid Ivanovich Lavrov on the front free endpaper, with a presentation inscription in blue ink to co-editor and co-author Z. V. Anchvadze, dated 28 August 1957.
Binding good: minor wear at head of spine; corners lightly bumped. Text block good: liquid staining to p. 19 (several brown spots across lower half of leaf, touching text in places); even age-toning throughout; block otherwise firm and complete.
This is the first comprehensive scholarly history of the Kabardian people from prehistoric times to the Soviet present, published by the USSR Academy of Sciences in the jubilee year of the 400th anniversary of Kabarda's entry into the Russian state. Prepared under the editorial leadership of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Smirnov (1900-1978), corresponding member of the Academy and the leading authority on Russian-Caucasian relations, the volume assembled the principal Caucasologists of the mid-century Soviet academy, including the Georgian and Abkhazian historian Zurab Vladimirovich Anchbadze (1920-1976), specialist in the medieval history of Colchis and Abkhazia, and the Kabardian historians Timur Kumykov and Khusen Sabanchiev. The copy bears a warmly personal presentation inscription from Leonid Ivanovich Lavrov (1909-1982), the foremost Soviet ethnographer of the North Caucasus and one of the co-authors of this very volume. Lavrov, who from 1961 led the Caucasus group at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was the author of fundamental works on Adyghe ethnogenesis, North Caucasian epigraphy, and the history of the Abazins, Ubykhs, and Karachay-Balkarians. His inscription, dated 28 August 1957 - three months after the book went to press and in the year of the Kabarda jubilee celebrations - documents a collaborative friendship between two leading figures of Soviet Caucasology: a Leningrad-based ethnographer and a Tbilisi-based historian who together contributed to the new national histories of the Caucasian peoples. As a double association copy linking co-author and co-editor, both directly named in the book's own editorial apparatus, this inscription gives the volume exceptional interest for collectors of Caucasian history and Soviet academic culture.