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Author Graham, Loren R.

Title Moscow stories / Loren R. Graham.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]
©2006

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 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  947.084 GRA    Check Shelf
Description xi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Science -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.
Science -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life.
Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991.
Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life -- 1991-
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Graham, Loren R. -- Travel -- Soviet Union.
Graham, Loren R. -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
ISBN 0253347165 cloth alkaline paper
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