Nove, Alec [Alexander] [Born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky].

Collection of First Editions (including one signed Pamphlet) by Alexander [Alec] Nove, Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet Economic History. The rare Pamphlets and Publications by Alec Nove came to us together with a small archive of Communist and Soviet Economic and Educational Material (″How Communists Educate Children”) and used to belong to a member and local educator of the British Branch of the Communist Party. See full list of the Communist Material below and find a list of the Alec Nove-Material here: 1. Alec Nove – “The Soviet Village in Press and Literature” [Rare original offprint from “St.Anthony Papers on Soviet Afairs” (Estratto dalla Rivista “Occidente” – Anno XII – 1 – 1956)] / 2. Alec Nove – “Communist Economic Strategy: Soviet Growth and Capabilities” [SIGNED by Alec Nove] (1959) / 3. Alec Nove – “The Politics Of Economic Rationality – Observations on the Soviet Economy” [1958] / 4. Alec Nove – “Collectivization of Agriculture in Russia and China” (Original, rare “Preprint” in 1961) / 5. Alec Nove – “The Soviet Economy” [Heavily annotated] (1961) //.

c. 1956-1970. Octavo. Hardcover / Pamphlets and Softover publications. Most of the publications in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some publications with stronger signs of wear or annotations or markings. A very interesting collection on Soviet Economy, Planing and Educational Material on Communist Ideology.

The additional collection of Books and Pamphlets on Communism and Soviet History, which is part of the Alec Nove-Collection, includes Communist Ideological Material, Communist Educational Material, Communist / Socialist Economical Material etc. and includes more than fifty items among which are for example the following publications:

1. “Soviet Economic Reform – Main Features & Aims” (Moscow, Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1967)
2. A.G.Morton / H.C.Creighton – “Reorganisation of Higher Education” (in: SCR – Soviet Science Bulletin”) – London, 1961/1962
3. Kenneth Charlton – “Polytechnical Education : An Idea in Motion” (Hamburg, 1968)
4. L.S.Berg – “Natural Regions of the U.S.S.R.” – Translated from the Russian by Olga Adler Titelbaum (New York, 1950)
5. Khrushchov, N.S. – “Improvement of Industrial Management in the USSR (1957)
6. “The Soviet Union – Everyman’s Book” (USSR, 1967)
7. “First in the World !” – “An Illustrated Description of the Soviet Atomic Electricity Station” (1956)
8. Guenther Thude – The Workers And Their Social Insurance System – The Structure and Benefits of the Workers’ and Office Employees’ Social Insurance System in the German Democratic Republic (GDR / DDR) [1966]
9. N. Belyaev – “Soviet Pensions” (1957)
10. N.N.Baransky – “Economic Geography of the USSR” (Moscow, 1956)
11. Robert W.Campbell – “Soviet Economic Power – Its Organization, Growth and Challenge” (1960)
12. R.W.Davies – “Science and the Soviet Economy” (1967)
13. R.Amann, M.J.Berry, R.W.Davies – “Science and Industry in the USSR” (1970)
14. “The Soviet Union – Facts and Figures – USSR 1917-1967″
15. I.Konev (Marshal of the Soviet Union) – “Year of Victory” (Moscow 1969)
16. “Sensation Number One” From 0 To 159 Years Old – A Report on the Soviet Man” (1965)
17. “They Knew Lenin” – “Reminiscences of Foreign Contemporaries” (First printing 1968 with original Dustjacket)
18. N.S.Khruskchov – “The Road to Communism” – Documents of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union” (1961)
19. “The Soviet Union in 1960” – “The Story of the Sixth Five-Year Plan in ACtion (1957)
20. S.G.Strumilin – “Planning in the Soviet Union” – “Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Revolution” (1957)
21. Lazar Volin – “A Survey of Soviet Russian Agriculture” (1951)
22. Derek J.R.Scott – “Russian Political Institutions” (Second Edition, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961)
23. Gerhard Moebus – “How Communists Educate Children” (Cork (Ireland), Mercier Press, 1963)
24. “New Methods of Economic Management in the USSR” (1965)
25. Lenka von Koerber – “Soviet Russia Fights Crime” – With 9 Illustrations – (London, 1934) [This book has no binding / Faded Dampstain]
26. I. Yevenko – “Planning in the USSR” (Translated from the Russian by Leo Lempert)
27. Twentyfive further titles (many in russian, some in english) on the history of the USSR, its economy, philosophy and ediucation etc.


Alexander Nove, FRSE, FBA (born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky also published under Alec Nove; 24 November 1915 – 15 May 1994), a non-Marxist socialist, was Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D. Thatcher, “[T]he consensus is that he was one of the most significant scholars of ‘Soviet’ studies in its widest sense and beyond.″

Alexander Nove was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the son of Jacob Novakovsky. His father was a Menshevik who emigrated with his family in 1924 to Britain. He was educated at King Alfred School in London and received a BSc in economics from the London School of Economics in 1936. The school later made him an Honorary Fellow in 1982.

Nove served in the Royal Signal Corps from 1939 but was transferred to Military Intelligence until 1946, reaching the rank of Major. From 1947 to 1958, he worked in the Civil Service, mainly at the Board of Trade. He was a Reader in Russian Social and Economic Studies at the University of London from 1958 to 1963 and Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow from 1963 to 1982. He was then Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow until his death.

In 1982, Nove was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Hugh Clifford Frend, Sydney Checkland, Thomas Wilson, George Wyllie, Sir Kenneth Alexander and Leslie Alcock.

In 1951, Nove married Irene MacPherson, his second marriage. They had three sons: Perry and David, from his first marriage. Together, they had Charles Nove (born 1960), a broadcaster. Nove died in Voss Municipality, Norway, on 15 May 1994. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Collection History Rare · Collection Philosophy Rare · Communism · Education – Rare · Education History · History – Rare · Political Activism · Political Economy · Political History · Russian History – Rare · Soviet Union · USSR
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32490AB

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