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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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In 1957 the State Medical Publications of the USSR published a commemorative volume devoted to Soviet accomplishments in public health from 1917 to 1957. The authors of the "report" were less interested in describing scientific progress and the state of research than in showing what had been accomplished in the teaching, organization and scope of therapeutic or prophylactic medical treatment. This document, with its social approach and reliance on statistics, tables, and graphs, aimed at revealing Soviet achievements in the field of Public Health, is written without a polemical purpose, and considers the Soviet figures without implying any comparison with other countries, favorable or unfavorable. It has been impossible to give a "digest" of this remarcable book of 700 large format pages. We have therefore chosen a few chapters of more particular interest because of their novelty or originality, and give an account of them without comments. Presented even in this manner, we think these "selected documents" will give rise to reflections.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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In 1957 the State Medical Publications of the USSR published a commemorative volume devoted to Soviet accomplishments in public health from 1917 to 1957. The authors of the "report" were less interested in describing scientific progress and the state of research than in showing what had been accomplished in the teaching, organization and scope of therapeutic or prophylactic medical treatment. This document, with its social approach and reliance on statistics, tables, and graphs, aimed at revealing Soviet achievements in the field of Public Health, is written without a polemical purpose, and considers the Soviet figures without implying any comparison with other countries, favorable or unfavorable. It has been impossible to give a "digest" of this remarcable book of 700 large format pages. We have therefore chosen a few chapters of more particular interest because of their novelty or originality, and give an account of them without comments. Presented even in this manner, we think these "selected documents" will give rise to reflections.
Author: Roger D. Lanius Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134960336 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 468
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This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the formation of NASA, the race for human exploration of the moon, the reality of global satellite communications, and a new generation of scientific spacecraft that began exploring the universe. An introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Walter A. McDougall sets the context for Sputnik and its significance at the end of the twentieth century.
Author: Fred Coleman Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312168162 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 500
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Red Coleman, A Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report, has spent over thirty years gathering observations and experiences to produce this in-depth, up-close, definitive examination of the fall of the Soviet Union and the people and events that contributed essentially to its demise. From the Kremlin Palace coup against Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia and the emergence of the Soviet dissident movement during Leonid Brezhnev's rule, to the rise and fall of Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Yeltsin's troubled presidency through 1995, Coleman was the man on the scene for virtually every defining event of Russian history in the postwar era.
Author: Robert Robinson Publisher: Acropolis Books (NY) ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 448
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"Robert Robinson (1907?-1994) was a Jamaican-born toolmaker who worked in the auto industry in the United States. At the age of 23, he was recruited to work in the Soviet Union, where he spent 44 years after the government refused to give him an exit visa for return. Starting with a one-year contract by Russians to work in the Soviet Union, he twice renewed his contract. He became trapped by the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II and the government's refusal to give him an exit visa. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering during the war. He finally left the Soviet Union in 1974 on an approved trip to Uganda, where he asked for and was given asylum. He married an African-American professor working there. He finally gained re-entry to the United States in 1976, and gained attention for his accounts of his 44 years in the Soviet Union."--Wikipedia.
Author: Georgiy Kasianov Publisher: Central European University Press ISBN: 9633863813 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 424
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This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians, and local governments. He identifies the main political purposes of these practices in the construction of nation and identity, struggles for power, warfare, and international relations. Kasianov considers the Ukrainian case in the context of a global increase in the politics of history and memory, with particular emphasis on a distinctive East-European variety. He pays special attention to the use and abuse of history in relations between Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.
Author: David Holloway Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300164459 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 507
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The classic and “utterly engrossing” study of Stalin’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb during the Cold War by the renowned political scientist and historian (Foreign Affairs). For forty years the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Then, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, David Holloway pulled back the Iron Curtain with his “marvelous, groundbreaking study” Stalin and the Bomb (The New Yorker). How did the Soviet Union build its atomic and hydrogen bombs? What role did espionage play? How did the American atomic monopoly affect Stalin's foreign policy? What was the relationship between Soviet nuclear scientists and the country's political leaders? David Holloway answers these questions by tracing the dramatic story of Soviet nuclear policy from developments in physics in the 1920s to the testing of the hydrogen bomb and the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the mid-1950s. This magisterial history throws light on Soviet policy at the height of the Cold War, illuminates a central element of the Stalinist system, and puts into perspective the tragic legacy of this program―environmental damage, a vast network of institutes and factories, and a huge stockpile of unwanted weapons.
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