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Stalin And Medicine: Untold Stories (häftad, eng)
''Rapoport has written a remarkable family memoir about growing up in the loftiest of Soviet Kremlin medical circles, where her father (Yako...
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''Rapoport has written a remarkable family memoir about growing up in the loftiest of Soviet Kremlin medical circles, where her father (Yakov Rapoport) was a distinguished pathologist, a man of scientific brilliance, technical expertise, great humor, and even greater courage during the rule of Joseph Stalin, around whom many suffered violent and mysterious deaths.
The author''s tone is lively, direct, humorous, and bluntly honest about her family and the rarified scientific and political circles in which they lived and worked. She reveals the heights of greatness that brilliant Jews could attain under the Soviet system, and also the discriminatory prejudice and harms, including threats and likelihood of arrest, torture, and death, that they experienced under Stalin and his successors … This marvelous book is an accessible work of important historical memory and warm scholarly and personal analysis.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.''
The narration is based on first-hand accounts the author gathered in conversations with her father, a world-renowned pathologist, and family friends, members of the Soviet intellectual elite.As one of the leading pathologists in the country, the author''s father participated in many dramatic events that were hidden from the general public.
The author describes Stalin''s revenge on his doctors and the fabrication of the ''Doctors'' Plot''; the thrilling story of the Moscow Brain Institute; the mysterious circumstances of the death of Stalin''s second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva; the outbreak of plague in the center of Moscow and the NKVD''s approach to curbing an epidemic; the fraught drama associated with the death and autopsy of the ''father'' of the H-bomb, Andrey Sakharov; and the world''s first attempt at cancer biotherapy.In the Afterward entitled A Different Globe the author depicts the difficult and sometimes hilarious process of her family''s adjustment to their new life in America.A number of TV programs, documentaries, and movies were shot in the author''s Moscow apartment by Russian, European, and American media and movie companies.
The author''s tone is lively, direct, humorous, and bluntly honest about her family and the rarified scientific and political circles in which they lived and worked. She reveals the heights of greatness that brilliant Jews could attain under the Soviet system, and also the discriminatory prejudice and harms, including threats and likelihood of arrest, torture, and death, that they experienced under Stalin and his successors … This marvelous book is an accessible work of important historical memory and warm scholarly and personal analysis.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.''
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This manuscript offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into some extraordinary moments of 20th century Russia. In a series of entrancing stories, the book demonstrates the disastrous consequences of a totalitarian regime''s intervention in medicine and medical science.The narration is based on first-hand accounts the author gathered in conversations with her father, a world-renowned pathologist, and family friends, members of the Soviet intellectual elite.As one of the leading pathologists in the country, the author''s father participated in many dramatic events that were hidden from the general public.
The author describes Stalin''s revenge on his doctors and the fabrication of the ''Doctors'' Plot''; the thrilling story of the Moscow Brain Institute; the mysterious circumstances of the death of Stalin''s second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva; the outbreak of plague in the center of Moscow and the NKVD''s approach to curbing an epidemic; the fraught drama associated with the death and autopsy of the ''father'' of the H-bomb, Andrey Sakharov; and the world''s first attempt at cancer biotherapy.In the Afterward entitled A Different Globe the author depicts the difficult and sometimes hilarious process of her family''s adjustment to their new life in America.A number of TV programs, documentaries, and movies were shot in the author''s Moscow apartment by Russian, European, and American media and movie companies.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 304 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd |
Utgivningsdatum | 2020-04-04 |
ISBN | 9789811209178 |
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- Häftad, 304, Engelska, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2020-04-04, 9789811209178
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