To Russia with Love : An Alaskan's Journey /

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Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally...

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Main Author: Fischer, Victor (Author)
Other Authors: Wohlforth, Charles P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fischer, Victor.
Russian Americans.
Politics and government
Jews, Russian.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Juifs russes > Biographies.
Russian Americans > Alaska > Biography.
Jews, Russian > Biography.
Soviet Union.
Alaska.
URSS > Histoire.
Alaska > Politique et gouvernement > 1959-
Alaska > Biographies.
Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Biography.
Alaska > Politics and government > 1959-
Alaska > Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered the Fischer family's escape from Russia, and soon after Victor was serving in the United States Army in World War II and fighting opposite his childhood friends in the Russian and German armies. As a young adult, he went on to help shape Alaska's map by planning towns throughout the state. Thi.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781602231412

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