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Moscow stories / Loren R. Graham.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Loren R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Graham, Loren R.
- Science--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Travel.
- Soviet Union.
- Science--Social aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation).
- Soviet Union--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Soviet Union--Social conditions--1945-1991.
- Social conditions.
- Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life--1991-.
- Russia (Federation)--Social conditions--1991-.
- Graham, Loren R--Travel--Soviet Union.
- Graham, Loren R--Travel--Russia (Federation).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- The distinguished American historian of Russian and Soviet science Loren R. Graham recounts with warmth and wit his experiences during forty-five years of traveling and doing research in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia, from 1960 to 2005. These gripping, sometimes humorous, always deeply personal stories will engage and inform anyone with an interest in Russia during this tumultuous period of history.
- Contents:
- Learning to learn about Russia and Communism
- The communism problem in Farmersburg
- Technological competition and the Cold War
- Student days at Moscow University
- No singing allowed at Moscow University
- Lennie in the workers' paradise
- Rural Russia and the forbidden fish
- An American sit-in and a Russian riot
- The fate of my closest Russian friend
- The vodka caper
- Research in the USSR
- The meaning of science in Russia
- The American colony in the Soviet Union
- The biggest fraud in biology
- Peter Kapitsa, a man of many parts
- I break into the ambassador's house
- The bravery of Bukharin's widow
- Filming refuseniks and dissidents in Moscow
- Intelligence, the Cold War, and security concerns
- The scholar who disappeared
- Being followed
- Spies and scholars
- From the USSR to post-communist Russia
- A man of fervor
- The Soviet Union and I collapse together
- An ambiguous funeral
- George Soros tries to save Russian science and culture
- Death of an old American communist.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253347165
- OCLC:
- 61211369
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