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Автор Лорен Р. Грэхэм

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

PREFACE

PART I - LEARNING TO LEARN ABOUT RUSSIA AND COMMUNISM

CHAPTER ONE - THE COMMUNISM PROBLEM IN FARMERSBURG

CHAPTER TWO - TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITION AND THE COLD WAR

PART II - STUDENT DAYS AT MOSCOW UNIVERSITY

CHAPTER THREE - NO SINGING ALLOWED AT MOSCOW UNIVERSITY

CHAPTER FOUR - LENNIE IN THE WORKERS’ PARADISE

CHAPTER FIVE - RURAL RUSSIA AND THE FORBIDDEN FISH

CHAPTER SIX - AN AMERICAN SIT-IN AND A RUSSIAN RIOT

CHAPTER SEVEN - THE FATE OF MY CLOSEST RUSSIAN FRIEND

CHAPTER EIGHT - THE VODKA CAPER

PART III - RESEARCH IN THE USSR

CHAPTER NINE - THE MEANING OF SCIENCE IN RUSSIA

CHAPTER TEN - THE AMERICAN COLONY IN THE SOVIET UNION

CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE BIGGEST FRAUD IN BIOLOGY

CHAPTER TWELVE - PETER KAPITSA, A MAN OF MANY PARTS

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - I BREAK INTO THE AMBASSADOR’S HOUSE

CHAPTER FOURTEEN - THE BRAVERY OF BUKHARIN’S WIDOW

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - FILMING REFUSENIKS AND DISSIDENTS IN MOSCOW

PART IV - INTELLIGENCE, THE COLD WAR, AND SECURITY CONCERNS

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - THE SCHOLAR WHO DISAPPEARED

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - BEING FOLLOWED

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - SPIES AND SCHOLARS

PART V - FROM THE USSR TO POST-COMMUNIST RUSSIA

CHAPTER NINETEEN - A MAN OF FERVOR

CHAPTER TWENTY - THE SOVIET UNION AND I COLLAPSE TOGETHER

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - AN AMBIGUOUS FUNERAL

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - GEORGE SOROS TRIES TO SAVE RUSSIAN SCIENCE AND CULTURE

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - DEATH OF AN OLD AMERICAN COMMUNIST

AFTERTHOUGHTS

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Acknowledgements

CITATIONS

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Moscow stories / Loren R. Graham. p. cm.

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ISBN 0-253-34716-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Science—Social

eISBN : 97-8-025-30007-4

aspects—Soviet Union. 2. Science—Social aspects—Russia (Federation)

3. Soviet Union—Intellectual life.

4. Soviet Union—Social conditions—1945-1991. 5. Russia (Federation)—Intellectual life—1991-

6. Russia (Federation)—Social conditions—1991- 7. Graham, Loren R.

—Travel—Soviet Union. 8. Graham, Loren R. —Travel—Russia (Federation) I. Title.

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To my friends in Russia,