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The year I was Peter the Great : 1956--Khrushchev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia /

1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called "the year of the thaw"--A time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by Nikit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalb, Marvin L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017.
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface -- Roots -- War, college, and basketball -- Teddy, Joyce, and journalism -- From Cambridge to Moscow -- Govorit Moskva -- "Moscow calling" -- De-Stalinization=destabilization -- The thaw -- From Zhukov to Poznan -- Into the heartland -- A summertime break in Central Asia -- Where Stalin is 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 ... 
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