Author: New York. World's FairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Material Relating to Russia and the Soviet Pavilion at the New York World's Fair
Author: New York. World's FairThe Soviet Arctic
Author: Pier HorensmaPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415055377
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The first book to consider Soviet policy in this area from an historian's point of view. Horensma assesses the significance of historical precedents for polar sovereignty.
The Russian Empire and Soviet Union
Author: Steven A. GrantPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Author: Bill CotterPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738536064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.
Stalin
Author: Mikl¢s KunPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9789639241190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This exceptional volume of oral history contains exciting new information about Stalin's actual and political 'family', the political Mafia and the clans around him. The author has interviewed key politicians who survived the Stalin era. Kun's special expertise and his access to archival sources in Russia have resulted in a work revealing jealously guarded secrets. In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating selection from a private collection of photos of Stalin, his family members, and various political actors of the period.
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Author: The Restless Hungarian
Author: Tom WeidlingerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1943006970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him to escape the Holocaust, Paul Weidlinger became one of the most creative structural engineers of the twentieth century. As a young architect, he broke ranks with the great modernists with his radical idea of the “Joy of Space.” As an engineer, he created the strength behind the beauty in mid-century modern skyscrapers, churches, museums, and he gave concrete form to the eccentric monumental sculptures of Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, and Jean Dubuffet. In his private life, he was a divided man, living behind a wall of denial as he lost his family to war, mental illness, and suicide. In telling his father’s story, the author sifts meaning from the inspiring and contradictory narratives of a life: a motherless child and a captain of industry, a clandestine communist who designed silos for the world’s deadliest weapons during the Cold War, a Jewish refugee who denied he was a Jew, a husband who was terrified of his wife’s madness, and a man whose personal saints were artists.
Designing Tomorrow
Author: Robert W. RydellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300149579
Category : Century of Progress International Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on an exhibition held at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, October 2010-July 2011.
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