Moscow Stories - Graham, Loren R.

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Résumé :

Preface
Part I. Learning to Learn about Russia and Communism
1. The Communism Problem in Farmersburg
2. Technological Competition and the Cold War
Part II. Student Days at Moscow University
3. No Singing Allowed at Moscow University
4. Lennie in the Workers' Paradise
5. Rural Russia and the Forbidden Fish
6. An American Sit-in and a Russian Riot
7. The Fate of My Closest Russian Friend
8. The Vodka Caper
Part III. Research in the USSR
9. The Meaning of Science in Russia
10. The American Colony in the Soviet Union
11. The Biggest Fraud in Biology
12. Peter Kapitsa, a Man of Many Parts
13. I Break into the Ambassador's House
14. The Bravery of Bukharin's Widow
15. Filming Refuseniks and Dissidents in Moscow
Part IV. Intelligence, the Cold War, and Security Concerns
16. The Scholar Who Disappeared
17. Being Followed
18. Spies and Scholars
Part V. From the USSR to Post-Communist Russia
19. A Man of Fervor
20. The Soviet Union and I Collapse Together
21. An Ambiguous Funeral
22. George Soros Tries to Save Russian Science and Culture
23. Death of an Old American Communist
Afterthoughts
Biographical Notes
Acknowledgments
Citations
Index