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Death of a Dissident

The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB

By: Alex Goldfarb,Marina Litvinenko

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Death of a Dissident

The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB

By: Alex Goldfarb,Marina Litvinenko

The first reports seemed absurd. A Russian dissident, formerly an employee of the KGB and its successor, the FSB, had seemingly been poisoned in a London hotel. As Alexander Litvinenko's condition worsened, however, and he was transferred to hospital and placed under armed guard, the story took a sinister turn. On 23 November 2006, Litvinenko died, apparently from polonium-210 radiation poisoning. He himself, in a dramatic statement from his deathbed, accused his former employers at the Kremlin of being responsible for his murder. Who was Alexander Litvinenko? What had happened in Russia since the end of the Cold War to make his life there untenable, and even in severe jeopardy in Britain? How did he really die, and who killed him? In his spokesman and close friend, Alex Goldfarb, and widow Marina, we have two people who know more than anyone about the real Sasha Litvinenko, and about his murder. Their riveting book sheds astonishing light not just on these strange and troubling events but also on the biggest crisis in relations with Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471103013

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9781471103018

Death of a Dissident

The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB

By: Alex Goldfarb,Marina Litvinenko

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Woman with a Movie Camera

My Life as a Russian Filmmaker

By: Marina Goldovskaya

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Woman with a Movie Camera

My Life as a Russian Filmmaker

By: Marina Goldovskaya

Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers. The first woman in Russia (and possibly the world) to combine being a director, writer, cinematographer, and producer, Goldovskaya has made over thirty documentary films and more than one hundred programs for Russian, European, Japanese, and American television. Her work, which includes the award-winning films The House on Arbat Street, The Shattered Mirror, and Solovky Power, has garnered international acclaim and won virtually every prize given for documentary filmmaking. In Woman with a Movie Camera, Goldovskaya turns her lens on her own life and work, telling an adventurous, occasionally harrowing story of growing up in the Stalinist era and subsequently documenting Russian society from the 1960s, through the Thaw and Perestroika, to post-Soviet Russia. She recalls her childhood in a Moscow apartment building that housed famous filmmakers, being one of only three women students at the State Film School, and working as an assistant cameraperson on the first film of Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia's most celebrated director. Reviewing her professional filmmaking career, which began in the 1960s, Goldovskaya reveals her passion for creating films that presented a truthful picture of Soviet life, as well as the challenges of working within (and sometimes subverting) the bureaucracies that controlled Russian film and television production and distribution. Along the way, she describes a host of notable figures in Russian film, theater, art, and politics, as well as the technological evolution of filmmaking from film to video to digital media. A compelling portrait of a woman who broke gender and political barriers, as well as the eventful four decades of Russian history she has documented, Woman with a Movie Camera will be fascinating reading for a wide audience.

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University of Texas Press

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0292778961

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9780292778962

Stalin's Music Prize

Soviet Culture and Politics

By: Marina Frolova-Walker

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Stalin's Music Prize

Soviet Culture and Politics

By: Marina Frolova-Walker

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the best in Soviet culture. This revealing study sheds new light on the Communist leader's personal tastes, the lives and careers of those honored, including multiple-recipients Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and the elusive artistic concept of "Socialist Realism," offering the most comprehensive examination to date of the relationship between music and the Soviet state from 1940 through 1954.

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Yale University Press

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0300208847

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9780300208849

Vibrational (Infrared and Raman) Spectra of Minerals and Related Compounds

By: Nikita V. Chukanov,Marina F. Vigasina

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Vibrational (Infrared and Raman) Spectra of Minerals and Related Compounds

By: Nikita V. Chukanov,Marina F. Vigasina

The book presents new data on the IR spectra of minerals and on the Raman spectra of more than 2000 mineral species. It also includes examples of IR spectroscopy applications to investigate minerals, and discusses the most important potential applications of Raman spectroscopy in mineralogical research. The book serves as a reference resource and a methodological guide for mineralogists, petrologists and technologists working in the field of inorganic materials.

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Springer Nature

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3030268039

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Death of a Dissident

The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB

By: Alexander Goldfarb,Marina Litvinenko

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Death of a Dissident

The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB

By: Alexander Goldfarb,Marina Litvinenko

The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006--poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium--caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit 43-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. But what really happened? What did Litvinenko know? And why was he killed? The full story of Litvinenko's life and death is one that the Kremlin does not want told. Ever since 1998, when Litvinenko denounced the FSB for ordering him to assassinate tycoon Boris Berezovsky, he had devoted his life to exposing the FSB's darkest secrets. He investigated everything, and he denounced his former employers in no uncertain terms. Litvinenko dedicated his life to exposing this truth; it took his diabolical murder for the world to listen.--From publisher description.

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1416557016

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9781416557012

Book's by Marina Litvinenko

Death of a Dissident

Death of a Dissident

Death of a Dissident

Death of a Dissident

Woman with a Movie Camera

Woman with a Movie Camera

Stalin's Music Prize

Stalin's Music Prize

Vibrational (Infrared and Raman) Spectra of Minerals and Related Compounds

Vibrational (Infrared and Raman) Spectra of Minerals and Related Compounds

Death of a Dissident

Death of a Dissident

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