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Author: Melissa Feinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0190644613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurtain of Lies tells the story of the struggle to define the truth of Eastern Europe between 1948 and 1956. It examines how actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to create knowledge about Eastern Europe, and thus helped solidify the battle lines of the Cold War.
Author: Yale Richmond
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2003-04-21
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0271031573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and athletes—and among them were more than a few KGB officers. They came, they saw, they were conquered, and the Soviet Union would never again be the same. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War describes how these exchange programs (which brought an even larger number of Americans to the Soviet Union) raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changes that prepared the way for Gorbachev's glasnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War. This study is based upon interviews with Russian and American participants as well as the personal experiences of the author and others who were involved in or administered such exchanges. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries we disagree with is not isolation but engagement.
Author: Anne Applebaum
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 803
ISBN-13: 0385536437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Author: Susan Viets
Publisher: Delfryn Publishing and Consulting Incorporated
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780987966407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on diaries, reporting notebooks, letters and memory, the author, a student turned journalist, tells of her adventures in Europe within a ten-year period (1988 to 1998) which included major historical and political change in countries such as Budapest, Bishkek, Chornobyl and Chechnya. She finishes her stories with an eyewitness account of Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004.
Author: Janet Winn
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 059546422X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does a middle-aged daughter, Adele, do when her aging, ill mother asks for help in dying, especially when daughter and mother have been edgy antagonists for years? Confronting a frightening death as her lungs fill, the mother, Elizabeth, insists on her right to choose when to die. Adele turns for help to her sister, who rejects euthanasia on religious grounds, and her brother, who tries to get pills, but is trapped in a snowstorm. Adele's daughter, Toni, becomes involved when she asks her grandmother's help with research into heroin smuggling perhaps carried on by people her grandparents knew.
Author: Bruce
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 1452055904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA STORY SET IN SOUTHERN AFRICA ABOUT EVERYTHING? YES EVERYTHING! IT IS A MIX OF FAMILY, ADVENTURE, ROMANCE, PAIN, HAPPINESS, LOVE AND THE NATURE OF "PERSPECTIVE" WHERE, FOR EXAMPLE, DARKNESS IS PERCIEVED AS A CAUSE FOR RECOGNISING AND VALUING LIGHT! YOU COULD SAY IT IS A MIX OF STORIES WHICH ILLUSTRATE THE FACT THAT IT IS ALWAYS THE 'CAUSE' WHICH BRINGS INTO BEING EVERYTHING THAT IS!WHAT YOU READ IN THIS BOOK DERIVES FROM TRUE INCIDENTS SPICED WITH POETIC LICENCE WHEREVER DEEMNED NECESSARY. THE PLACES SUCH AS COUNTRIES, TOWNS, CAMPS AND COUNTRYSIDES ARE REAL BUT THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS PORTRAYED ARE FICTIONAL AND THE PEOPLE POSING IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE STANDING IN ON BEHALF OF THEM.
Author: Charles Hubbard Sergei
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 860
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