Moscow Stories

Name: Moscow Stories
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ISBN: 9780253347169

ISBN-10: 0253347165

ISBN-13: 9780253347169

Edition: 2006

Authors: Loren R. Graham

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The adventures of a distinguished historian of science, observing life in the Soviet Union from 1960 to 2005

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface



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


Afterthoughts


Biographical Notes


Acknowledgments


Citations


Index