The year I was Peter the Great : 1956- Kruschev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia
(2017)
By:
Kalb, Marvin L.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
070.92/KALB,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Washington, D.C. : The Brookings Institution, 2017
DESCRIPTION
290 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780815731610, 9780815731610 (cloth : alk. paper), 0815731612 (cloth : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Roots -- War, college, and basketball -- Joyce, Teddy, and journalism -- From Kohn to Khrushchev -- "Govorit Moskva, govorit Moskva" ("Moscow calling, Moscow calling") -- Destalinization = Destabilization -- The "thaw" -- From Zhukov to Poznan -- Into the heartland -- A summertime break in Central Asia -- Where Stalin was still worshipped -- Back to a familiar chill -- "Dark, frightening and tragic days" -- Uvarov, Sasha, and Stalin's ghost -- At the end of the arc -- Postscript : five months later