Small Fires; Letters From The Soviet People To Ogonyok Magazine 1987-1990

Langue : anglais

Edité par Summit Books, New York, 1990

0671693972 / 9780671693978

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303, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. Introduction by Vitaly Korotich. Afterword by Andrei Sakharov. Afterword by Olzhas Suleimenov. There is an inscription on the fep signed by the Editor (Albee) The inscription reads To Senator Leahy: Russia is a long way from Vermont, but at least I knew how to keep warm there. My best wishes to you and your family. Marina Albee. Christopher Cerf (born August 19, 1941) is an American author, composer-lyricist, voice actor, and record and television producer. He has contributed music to Sesame Street, and co-created and co-produced the PBS literacy education television program Between the Lions. Cerf's father was Random House co-founder, publisher, editor and TV panelist Bennett Cerf. Cerf also work as an author and satirist. In 1970, he helped launch the National Lampoon, serving as a Contributing Editor from its first issue until the mid-1970s. Marina Albee was a Ph.D. student at The Harriman Institute at Columbia University in NYC in 1985. She decided to go there because of dynamic professor Jonathan Sanders, who had organized the construction of an antenna on the roof of the Institute to watch Soviet television. Marina began to study the Soviet Union through its television and Mikhail Gorbachev's USSR was changing it every day. The inventor of the system went on tour to Moscow and she accompanied him to Gosteleradio. This led to a career spanning 30 years, doing live satellite TV, to TV and film production, to music production, to telecom servicing. She teaches at the European University at St. Petersburg. From Library Journal: This compendium of both published and unpublished letters sent to Ogonyok , Russia's leading illustrated weekly, provides vivid glimpses of Soviet citizens burning with rage at a state bureaucracy that has yet to experience glasnost and perestroika below the highest governmental levels. The Soviet substitute for Larry King, Dear Abby, and the Better Business Bureau, this column serves a broader purpose than letters' columns in the United States, and some of the stories recounted here--by retirees, homemakers, and parents of Soviet soldiers--are heartbreaking. Soviet society has never been portrayed in a more wretched light. - Robert Decker, Columbia. Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023, and also served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2012 to 2015 and from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee at various points during his 48-year tenure. Leahy is the third-longest-serving U.S. senator in history, and is the longest-serving member of the United States Congress to solely serve as a U.S. senator. In April 2023, Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that Burlington International Airport would be renamed Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport.…

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Titre
Small Fires; Letters From The Soviet People To Ogonyok Magazine 1987-1990
Auteur
Cerf, Christopher (Editor), and Albee, Marina (Editor)
Éditeur
Summit Books, New York
Année de publication
1990
État de l'article
Very good
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Very good
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Signé par l'auteur
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0671693972
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780671693978
Édition
First Printing [Stated].
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Crime, Democracy, Gorbachev, Soviet Union

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