Books+ Search Results

To Russia with Love : An Alaskan's Journey

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
Copyright Notice Date
©[2012]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
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.
Genre/Form
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Citation

Available from:

Online
Loading holdings.
Unable to load. Retry?
Loading holdings...
Unable to load. Retry?