Kosarenko-Kosarevytch, Vasyl

[SIGNED] Die Moskauer Sphinx: Mythos und Macht in den Vorstellungen über Osteuropa [The Moscow Sphinx: Myth and Power in the Image of Eastern Europe]

Eremiten-Presse, 1955. Item #1595

227 pages. 21 cm. With the original dust jacket. In German. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Very good in original wrappers. Some toning and light wear to the dust jacket.

The German-language edition of Die Moskauer Sphinx, an early émigré political-historical study by Ukrainian writer and political thinker Vasyl Kosarenko-Kosarevytch. The work examines the historical formation of Muscovite political culture and the ideological myths surrounding Russia’s role in Eastern Europe. Drawing on historical sources and comparative analysis, the author argues that the Muscovite state evolved through a complex synthesis of steppe-imperial traditions and autocratic political structures that later shaped Russian imperial ideology. Published by the small émigré press Eremiten-Presse in 1955, this edition predates the expanded Ukrainian version issued in New York in 1957.

Price: $300.00