Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino. Civilization and Barbarism: Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga (Tsivilizatsiya i varvarstvo. Zhizneopisanie Khuana Fakundo Kirogi), 1988. In Russian

Сармьенто Доминго Фаустино. Цивилизация и варварство. Жизнеописание Хуана Факундо Кироги а также фактический облик, обычаи и нравы Аргентинской республики. / Издание подготовили В. Б. Земсков, Н. С. Попрыкина.
Москва: Наука, 1988.
272 с. : ил. ; Увеличенный формат. Твердый ледериновый издательский переплет. Серия: «Литературные памятники».
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Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino. Civilization and Barbarism: Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, as well as the Physical Appearance, Customs, and Manners of the Argentine Republic. / Prepared by V. B. Zemskov and N. S. Poprykina.
Moscow: Nauka, 1988.
272 pp.: ill.; Enlarged format. Hardcover (Lederin binding). Series: "Literary Monuments." In Russian.

This 1988 volume from the prestigious academic series "Literary Monuments" (Literaturnye pamyatniki) presents the foundational work of Argentine literature and political thought by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, who served as the seventh President of Argentina. First published in 1845 during his exile in Chile, Facundo is a unique hybrid of biography, sociology, and political polemic. Sarmiento uses the life of the provincial caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga to illustrate the fundamental conflict of 19th-century Latin America: the struggle between European-oriented "Civilization" (urban, progressive, and liberal) and local "Barbarism" (the wild, lawless world of the gauchos and pastoral chieftains). The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the Argentine pampa, including the arrangement of geographical descriptions that Sarmiento argues dictate the violent political character of the nation.
Prepared for publication by the noted scholars Valery Zemskov and Natalia Poprykina, this edition features a rigorous academic apparatus, including extensive commentaries, an introductory article, and a detailed chronicle of Sarmiento's life. The work remains essential for understanding the roots of Latin American identity and the literary genre of the "caudillo novel." As a classic of the "Literary Monuments" series, the book is bound in durable green lederin with the signature series design and printed in an enlarged format. It serves as a primary source for historians, literary critics, and bibliophiles interested in the intellectual history of the Americas and the high standards of late Soviet academic book production.