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My Russia

by Ustinov, Peter
Published by : Little, Brown and Company (Boston) Physical details: 224 p ISBN:0316890529. ISSN:978031689
Subject(s): History -- Soviet Union
Year: 1983
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900 - 999 947 Ust (Browse shelf) Available State Grant In Aid 53127

Map on lining papers. "An Atlantic Monthly Press book." Includes index.

Why "my" Russia? --
A giant's childhood --
Ivan the Terrible --
Troubled times --
Peter the Great --
Catherine the Great --
The struggle with Napoleon --
War in the Crimea --
Shooting the rapids --
The open window --
The seeds of revolution --
Pragmatism, heresy and anti-semitism --
Socialism in one country --
The struggle against Fascism --
Communism at work --
My Russia.

The noted actor-writer's accounts of his visits to the land of his parents' birth, together with 120 specially commissioned photographs, provide insight into the amazing diversity and subtle mysteries of life in the Soviet Union.

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