To Russia with Love : An Alaskan's Journey

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Author

Fischer, Victor, author.

Title

To Russia with Love : An Alaskan's Journey / Victor Fischer ; with Charles Wohlforth.

ISBN

9781602231412

9781602231405

9781602231399

Publication

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2012]

Manufacture

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023

©[2012]

Physical Description

1 online resource.

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Includes index.

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Summary

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered the Fischer family's escape from Russia, and soon after Victor was serving in the United States Army in World War II and fighting opposite his childhood friends in the Russian and German armies. As a young adult, he went on to help shape Alaska's map by planning towns throughout the state. Thi.

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Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.

Format

Books / Online

Language

English

Added to Catalog

January 17, 2024

Series

Book collections on Project MUSE.

Contents

Introduction; Formative Years; 1. The Reichstag Fire; 2. Markoosha and Louis; 3. Early Soviet Years; 4. The Troika; 5. The Purge; 6. Escape to America; 7. The Troika at War; 8. Coming of Age; Beginnings in Alaska; 9. Alaska Bound; 10. Becoming Alaskan; 11. Little Men for Statehood; 12. Constitutional Delegate; 13. Convening the Convention; 14. Constitutional Battles; 15. Fatherhood and Statehood; Making Connections; 16. Seeking Challenges; 17. Earthquake; 18. Return to Russia, and Alaska; 19. The Institute of Everything; 20. Fairbanks Years; 21. Troika Redux; 22. Starting a New Life.

Full Circle23. State Senate; 24. Transitions; 25. Russian Reconnection; 26. Working Internationally; 27. Russian Endings; 28. Secrets to a Long Life; Chapter Notes; Acknowledgments; Index.