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• Welcomed by crows
• I become a gardener
• Camp life
• My first whipping
• Sickness and disease
• A hand through the barbed wire
• Building the monument
• Thumann and the beatings
• Categories of prisoner
• Hunger and the jackals
• Organization of the camp
• The mausoleum and the turtle
• Homo homini lupus
• Peter Birzer
• The arrival of the Jews
• Herr Knips
• Food packages
• Finishing off the Jews
• The gallows and selections for the gas
• The golden calf
• Releases and contact with the free world
• Fluchtpunkte
• Killing the Effektenkammer Kommando
• The camp administration
• The move to Field 4
• Fourteen thousand peasants
• Marmorstein
• Auf der Flucht erschossen
• Seeing my brother
• I get my Fluchtpunkt
• The plan to free the camp
• Lagersperre
• The massacre of seventeen thousand Jews
• The Gehenna in the Lagerschreibstube
• Typhus fever
• Hessel the fiddler
• Christmas Eve, 1943
• The dead arrive
• Sexualnot
• Exekutiert
• Laurich, the "angel of death"
• They count us like gold, but treat us like shit
• Every SS man carries a baton in his bag
• The Revier
• Daily pensum
• Trips to the laundry
• Transports
• Thumann leads me to the crematorium
• The best depart
• Shipping corpses
• The last of the Mohicans
• My typhus
• The air raid of the camp
• Convalescence
• Judgment day
• Hunting for Home Army soldiers
• Shortening the front
• Camp evacuation under Soviet fire
• A brickyard in Kraśnik
• A shed in Skarżysko
• Zugang 190 513 in Auschwitz

In this memoir, Jerzy Kwiatkowski tells the harrowing tale of the sixteen months he spent at Majdanek, a concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin in occupied Poland. In stark detail, he describes the organization and operations of the camp and, for its prisoners, the fierce struggle for survival. Written in 1945, with events still fresh in his mind, Kwiatkowski's memoir provides a documentary-caliber look at prisoner life, from its mundane frustrations-endless roll calls, rations of rutabaga and potatoes-to its glimmers of hope-smuggled contraband, the strong bonds formed by the prisoners. It offers a first-person view on the Nazi regime's darkest excesses, from forced labor and starvation to systematic murder. First released under Soviet-era censorship in Poland in 1966, Kwiatkowski's memoir was published in a complete, uncensored Polish version in 2018 and has now been translated into English for the first time. The edition is richly illustrated with rare archival images from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the State Museum at Majdanek, who are proud to make this valuable historical record available to a wide audience.
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• Pt. I. Essays. Picturing empire : nishiki-e and the wars of Imperial Japan / Olivia Morello ; Michael Auslin
• Anchors of history : the long shadow of Imperial Japanese propaganda / Barak Kushner
• Multinational perspectives of visualized journalism on the Sino-Japanese War : a comparative study of Meiji Japan, Qing China, and Europe / Toshihiko Kishi
• Nishiki-e and war prints / Junichi Okubo
• A visual revolution : the emperor in popular nishiki-e / Alice Y. Tseng
• Visual media trends during the Russo-Japanese War period : a comparative study of Meiji Japan and Czarist Russia / Toshihiko Kishi
• Bakudan san'yūshi : the three heroes of Shanghai / Hanae Kurihara Kramer ; Scott Kramer
• The Pacific War and kamishibai / Tsuneo Yasuda
• Printed wartime kamishibai / Taketoshi Yamamoto
• pt. II. Collection highlights. Women at war -- Bushidō : samurai values -- Iconic symbols -- War horses -- Technology -- International propaganda war

Japan's Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country's transformation and wartime activities, starting with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.
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Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885-1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905-7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea. Olferieff wrestles with moral and political questions, wondering whether his own advantages could be justified-and whether, if born a peasant, he might have thrown himself into the revolution. As Gary Hamburg writes in an illuminating companion essay, Olferieff wrote "to understand himself and to record his broken life for posterity" as a privileged observer of a bloody, historically pivotal era.
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• A life of groundbreaking achievement
• The theoretical physicist
• In service to country : Jason and the Cold War
• Declaration of principle
• The Hoover Institution and the Gang of Four
• Bagatelles for Drell

Sidney Drell (1926-2016) left a legacy worthy of many lifetimes. Physicist, professor, national security expert, amateur musician, behind-the-scenes diplomat, and champion for peace and human rights, he was also friend and mentor. Dozens of interviews with those whose lives he touched reveal Drell as a man of brilliance, curiosity, and passions, whose devotion to the arts, family, and community equaled his love for physics.Teaching at Stanford University and working at its linear particle accelerator, Drell made significant scientific contributions. Not content to leave science in the lab or classroom, Drell brought his intellectual heft to public service, advising the US government on issues relating to science, advocating for Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov, and urging nuclear disarmament. Scaling the heights of achievement with a down-to-earth sensibility, Drell met his destiny empowered and validated by a prodigious mind, generous spirit, and tact in fostering goodwill for the benefit of all.
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• Identifying change
• Developing familiarity with all military domains
• Losing trust in a wartime general
• Rehabilitating the army after a botched war
• Leading a change in force design
• Building relationships with the political echelon in force design

The commander, or chief of staff, of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is a prominent public figure in Israel. His decisions, advice, and persona exert direct influence on force design and military strategy, and indirectly impact social, economic, and foreign affairs. This first-ever in-depth comparative study on the role and performance of the IDF chiefs of staff throughout modern Israel's history offers lessons for practitioners and students of strategy, military history, and leadership everywhere.
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• Chapter One: Guidelines: Debated and Implemented
• Chapter Two: Wage and Price Controls: Bad Economics Brings Bad Policy
• Chapter Three: Damage Control as the Economy Fights Back
• Chapter Four: Reversal and Reform: Good Economics Generates Good Policy
• Chapter Five: Orthodox Policies and Strategic Thinking Work
• Appendix A: Timeline of Key Events
• Appendix B: Letter from Arthur Burns to President Nixon, June 22, 1971 Appendix C: Economic Strategy for the Reagan Administration: A Report to President-Elect Ronald Reagan from His Coordinating Committee on Economic Policy, November 16, 1980
• Appendix D: Frequently Asked Questions
• Notes
• References for Further Reading
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Index

What are the keys to good economic policy? George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from their several decades of experience at the forefront of national economic policy making to show how market fundamentals beat politically popular government interventions-be they from Democrats or Republicans-as a recipe for success. Choose Economic Freedom reconstructs debates from the 1960s and 1970s about the use of wage and price controls as tools of policy, showing how brilliant economists can hold diametrically opposed views about the wisdom of using government intervention to spur the economy. Speeches and documents from the era include a recently unearthed memo from Arthur Burns, Federal Reserve chair, in 1971, in which he argues in favor of controls. Under Burns's guidance and in the face of stubborn inflation, Nixon introduced wage and price guidelines and freezes. But over the long run, these became a drag on the economy and ultimately failed. It wasn't until the Reagan administration that these controls were reversed, resulting in a vibrant economy. The words of iconic economist Milton Friedman-whose "free to choose" ethos inspired the free-market revolution of the Reagan era-along with lessons Shultz and Taylor learned from the front lines, demonstrate that tried-and-true economic policy works.
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• Retweets to midnight: assessing the effects of the information ecosystem on crisis decision making between nuclear weapons states
• Psychological underpinnings of post-truth in political beliefs
• The caveman and the bomb in the digital age
• Gaming communication on the global stage: social media disinformation in crisis situations
• Information operations and online activism within NATO discourse

Disinformation and misinformation have always been part of conflict. But as the essays in this volume outline, the rise of social media and the new global information ecosystem have created conditions for the spread of propaganda like never before-with potentially disastrous results. In our "post-truth" era of bots, trolls, and intemperate presidential tweets, popular social platforms like Twitter and Facebook provide a growing medium for manipulation of information directed to individuals, institutions, and global leaders. A new type of warfare is being fought online each day, often in 280 characters or fewer. Targeted influence campaigns have been waged in at least forty-eight countries so far. We've entered an age where stability during an international crisis can be deliberately manipulated at greater speed, on a larger scale, and at a lower cost than at any previous time in history. This volume examines the current reality from a variety of angles, considering how digital misinformation might affect the likelihood of international conflict and how it might influence the perceptions and actions of leaders and their publics before and during a crisis. It sounds the alarm about how social media increases information overload and promotes "fast thinking, " with potentially catastrophic results for nuclear powers.
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• Underway : aboard the MS Day Star
• Nouméa, New Caledonia
• Milne Bay, New Guinea
• Admiralty Island
• New Caledonia, second tour
• Underway : aboard the USS J. Franklin Bell
• Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands of Japan
• Finally, it was over.

The Battalion Artist explores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni's life on the Pacific front in World War II. He had known since childhood that he wanted to be-that he in fact was-an artist. When he packed his seabag and took leave of his family and his sweetheart to go to war, he knew that the best way to manage the narrative of his life and to cope with the ups and downs of his feelings was to create images-visual records that spoke of what he felt, as well as what he saw. In this stunning book filled with authentic World War II images-many in full color-we see and feel the intensity of wartime life through the eyes of a talented young artist who was also a US Navy Seabee. Natale Bellantoni, a young art student from Boston, sailed across the Pacific in 1943-45 and returned home with a sea chest of art and photographs documenting his experiences in New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Okinawa. His subject matter was his daily life: endless weeks at sea, harbors and ships, men at work, airstrips, the local countryside, and the view of enemy planes overhead at night from his fox hole. Now collected in a lavishly illustrated volume, his watercolors, sketches, and photographs offer a window onto one of the most significant moments in American history. The Battalion Artist explores the World War II experiences of Nat Bellantoni, but it reflects the story of an entire generation.
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• Between reason and faith : preliminary notes
• Diasporic nation and territorial nations
• The Zionist deficit
• "Negation of the exile" : stumbling block to acculturation
• The Gordian Knot : religion and nationhood
• The transition from sovereignty-in-the-making to sovereignty
• Ben-Gurionist statism
• The ethos of survival
• The centrality of death in Israel
• The interaction between governance and religion
• Diverse characteristics of the counterrevolution in religious Zionism
• The counterrevolution in the chronological mirror.

Over seven decades after the founding of Israel, the momentum to establish a Jewish state has led to remarkable achievements in the nation's "hardware": stable structures in government, the military, and the economy. At the same time, the "operating system", the guidelines that accommodate human diversity and enable coexistence, is still riddled with weaknesses. Arye Carmon diagnoses the critical vulnerabilities at the heart of Israeli democracy and the obstacles to forming a sustainable national consciousness. The author merges touching narratives about his own life in Israel with insightful ruminations on the Jewish diaspora and the arc of Israel's history, illuminating the conflicts between Jewish identities and between democratic values and the halacha -- the collective body of Jewish religious laws. There is no consensus on the characteristics that define Israel as a state that is both Jewish and democratic. Rather, the struggle between a secular and a religious Jewish identity, amid voices promoting ethnocentric nationalism, threatens to sever the ties that strengthen democracy. This cultural fragility has far-reaching implications for Israeli institutions and deepens societal rifts. Israel lacks a constitution to bind its democracy and a bill of rights to safeguard the freedoms of its citizens, enable the inclusion of diverse outlooks and beliefs, and underpin the norms of its civil society.
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• List of Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Policy Principles for Constructive Vigilance
• Introduction
• 1. Congress
• 2. State and Local Governments
• 3. The Chinese American Community
• 4. Universities
• 5. Think Tanks
• 6. Media
• 7. Corporations
• 8. Technology and Research
• Appendix 1. China's Influence Operations Bureaucracy
• Appendix 2. China's Influence Activities in Select Countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and ASEAN, United Kingdom
• Appendix 3. Chinese-Language Media Landscape
• Dissenting Opinion
• Afterword
• Notes
• Working Group participants
• Index

While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a global economic and military superpower, few understand just how deeply and assertively that country has already sought to influence American society. As the authors of this volume write, it is time for a wake-up call. In documenting the extent of Beijing's expanding influence operations inside the United States, they aim to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range of American institutions: state and local governments, academic institutions, think tanks, media, and businesses. And they highlight other aspects of the propagandistic "discourse war" waged by the Chinese government and Communist Party leaders that are less expected and more alarming, such as their view of Chinese Americans as members of a worldwide Chinese diaspora that owes undefined allegiance to the so-called Motherland. Featuring ideas and policy proposals from leading China specialists, China's Influence and American Interests argues that a successful future relationship requires a rebalancing toward greater transparency, reciprocity, and fairness. Throughout, the authors also strongly state the importance of avoiding casting aspersions on Chinese and on Chinese Americans, who constitute a vital portion of American society. But if the United States is to fare well in this increasingly adversarial relationship with China, Americans must have a far better sense of that country's ambitions and methods than they do now.
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• Preface
• Part I. ONE. International Rules of the Monetary Game; TWO. Dollar Dominance in Trade and Finance; SYMPOSIUM ON Capital Flows, the IMF's Institutional View and Alternatives; Introduction; THREE. Managing Capital Flows: Toward a Policy Maker's Vade Mecum; FOUR. The IMF's Institutional View: A Critique; FIVE. Capital Flows, the IMF's Institutional View, and an Alternative
• PART II. SIX. Monetary Policy with a Layered Payment System; SEVEN. Liquidity Regulation and the Size of the Fed's Balance Sheet; SYMPOSIUM ON The Future of Central Bank Balance Sheets; Introduction. EIGHT. Normalizing the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet and Policy Implementation; NINE. Get Up Off the Floor; TEN. The Fed's Balance Sheet Strategy: What Now?; ELEVEN. Should the Fed 'Stay Big' or 'Slim Down'?
• PART III. TWELVE. Anchoring Inflation Expectations in a Low R-star World; SYMPOSIUM ON Monetary Policy and Reform in Practice; Introduction; THIRTEEN. Monetary Policy and Reform in Practice; FOURTEEN. US Economic Conditions and Monetary Policy Considerations; FIFTEEN. Remarks; About the Contributors and Discussants; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on Economic Policy; Index.

Drawing from their 2018 conference, the Hoover Institution brings together leading academics and monetary policy makers to share ideas about the practical issues facing central banks today. The expert contributors discuss U.S. monetary policy at individual central banks and reform of the international monetary and financial system-issues very much related because of the large effect of balance sheet operations on exchange rates and capital flows. The discussion is broken down into seven key areas: 1) International Rules of the Monetary Game2) Banking, Trade and the Making of the Dominant Currency3) Capital Flows, the IMF's Institutional View and Alternatives4) Payments, Credit and Asset Prices5) Financial Stability, Regulations and the Balance Sheet6) The Future of the Central Bank Balance Sheet7) Monetary Policy and Reform in Practice.With in-depth discussions of the volatility of capital flows and exchange rates, and the use of balance sheet policy by central banks, they examine relevant research developments and debate policy options.
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• Foreword / by George P. Shultz
• 1. Foundations: Remember the Lusitania!
• 2. The View from the Tower: The Nazi-Soviet Pact, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Herbert Hoover and Poland, The Okhrana Collection Revealed, Alexander Kerensky at Hoover, Nicolas de Basily Room
• 3. Hoover Becomes a Think Tank: Truth as a Weapon: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Ten Landmark Books by Hoover Fellows, George Stigler, The United States in the 1980s
• 4. Into a New Century: Robert Conquest, Gorbachev at Stanford 1990 and 1992, Microfilming Soviet Communist Party Documents, Thatcher on the Quad, President George W. Bush and the Hoover Institution 2006, Hoover Nobel Laureates in Economics, Firing Line, Honors and Awards, Chiang Kai-Shek's Diaries.

A century ago, amid the devastation of World War I, Herbert Hoover established a collection of library and archival materials at Stanford University devoted to the causes and consequences of war. Founded as the Hoover War Collection in 1919, the institution has evolved into one of the world's premier research centers devoted to the advanced study of politics, economics, and international affairs. Defining Moments charts the origins and growth of what is today the Hoover Institution over the course of a century of global upheaval, from World War I and the Russian Revolution, through World War II and the Cold War, to the rapidly developing challenges we face today. The connecting thread is the notion encapsulated in the institution's slogan, Ideas Defining a Free Society: that American values of democracy, capitalism, and freedom can serve as a blueprint for improving lives around the world. Richly illustrated with rare photographs, political posters, and archival gems, Defining Moments traces the growth over the past century of Hoover's unparalleled collections on war, revolution, and peace and chronicles Hoover's emergence, beginning in the 1960s, as a public-policy research center whose mission is to foster prosperity, maintain democracy, and preserve peace.
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The book provides a detailed description of the Russian crime of the twenty-first century as well as a thorough examination of the eighty sessions of the nine-month-long trial (during 2016-2017) of Boris Nemtsovs alleged killers. It directs attention to the chief obstacle in determining what precisely happened shortly before midnight on February 27, 2015, on a bridge located a mere stones throw away from the Kremlin, in an area under the active surveillance of the Russian Federal Protective Service. The glaring absence of closed circuit videos from this most heavily guarded site in Russia is underscored. Given the absence of such key evidence, those seeking to investigate the murder have been akin to blind people stumbling about in obscurity. The attempts to penetrate this man-made fog undertaken during the course of the trial by the Nemtsov family attorneys, Vadim Prokhorov and Olga Mikhailova, as well as by numerous tenacious analysts of the crime, such as former deputy Russian energy minister Vladimir Milov, former Russian presidential economics advisor Andrei Illarionov, and leading mathematician Andrei Piontkovskii, are covered in full. The uneven case mounted by the prosecution and the scrappy defense effort of the attorneys for the alleged killers, many of them ethnic Chechens, are highlighted, as is the non-unanimous verdict which was reached by the twelve jurors. The findings of this study are in agreement with those of a number of commentators who contend that the actual organizers of the crime remain at large as does the assassinations shadowy mastermind.
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• Acknowledgements
• Preface to the 2019 edition
• Introduction
• Gambling with other people's money
• Did creditors expect to get rescued?
• What about equity holders?
• Heads : they win a ridiculously enormous amount : tails : they win just an enormous amount
• How creditor rescue and housing policy combined with regulation to blow up the housing market
• Fannie and Freddie
• Fannie and Freddie : cause or effect?
• Commercial banks and investment banks
• Picking up nickels
• Basel : faulty
• Where do we go from here?
• Notes
• Index
• About the author.

What caused the Financial Crisis of 2008? While government mandates and private sector mistakes did contribute to the crisis and can be blamed at least in part for what happened, this book takes a different approach. Russ Roberts argues that the true underlying cause of the mess was the past bailouts of large financial institutions that allowed these institutions to gamble carelessly because they were effectively using other people's money. The author warns that despite the passage of Dodd-Frank, it is widely believed that we have done nothing to eliminate 'Too Big to Fail.' That perception allows the largest financial institutions to continue to gamble with taxpayer money.
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Distinguished economist Michael D. Bordo argues for the importance of monetary stability and monetary rules, offering theoretical, empirical, and historical perspectives to support his case. He shows how the pursuit of stable monetary policy guided by central banks following rule-like behavior produces low and stable inflation, stable real performance, and encourages financial stability. In contrast, he explains how the failure to adhere to rules that produce monetary stability will inevitably produce the dire consequences of real, nominal, and financial instability. Bordo examines theoretical perspectives in monetary theory on the case for stable money and the importance of monetary rules. The author also looks at the historical and empirical record of economic performance (both inflation and real output) across policy regimes. He examines the performance of the Federal Reserve in its pursuit of discretionary monetary policy, and he reviews the history of monetary policy during the Great Depression.
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As a response to the Great Depression and an expression of executive power, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is widely understood as a turning point in American history. In How Public Policy Became War, David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd go even further, calling the New Deal ""America's French Revolution, "" refashioning American government and public policy in ways that have grown to epic proportions today. Roosevelt's decisions of 1933 were truly revolutionary. They reset the balance of power away from Congress and the states toward a strong executive branch. They shifted the federal government away from the Founders' vision of deliberation and moderation toward war and action. Succeeding presidents seized on the language of war to exert their will and extend their power into matters previously thought to be the province of Congress or state and local governments. Having learned that a sense of crisis is helpful in moving forward a domestic agenda, modern-day presidents have declared war on everything from poverty and drugs to crime and terror. Exploring the consequences of these ill-defined (and never-ending) wars, How Public Policy Became War calls for a re-examination of this destructive approach to governance and a return to the deliberative vision of the Founders. ""If we are constantly at war, "" the authors write, ""America becomes a nation under siege.
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• Preface: spiritus mundi
• Introduction : Bloody Sunday
• Looking for the Heart of the Revolution (1916-1917)
• The World of Tomorrow (1800s-1921)
• Russian Roulette (1921-1928)
• The End of Reason (1928-1932)
• Voyage of discovery (1932-1935)
• Trone's America (1935-1936)
• A simple matter of perspective (1936-1940)
• Investigating Trone, investigating the world (1940-1949)
• End game (1945, 1945-1953)
• Bibliography

• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology of events
• Abbreviations and Archives
• 1. "Just Be Careful, Remember How Frightening Everything Is for Us" : The Problem of the Zhivago Royalties
• 2. "Moscow Has Ears Everywhere!" : From Pasternak's Death to the Arrests of Olga Ivinskaya and Irina Emelianova
• 3. "We Need to Help the Russians Save Face" : The Ivinskaya Case in the West
• Documentary Appendix
• Bibliography
• About the Author
• Index.

The conflict between Soviet Communists and Boris Pasternak over the publication of Doctor Zhivago did not end when he won the Nobel Prize, or even when the author died. Paolo Mancosu tells how Pasternak's expulsion from the Soviet Writers' Union left him in financial difficulty. Milan publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and Sergio d'Angelo, who had brought the typescript of Doctor Zhivago to Feltrinelli, were among those who arranged a smuggling operation to help him.After Pasternak's death, Olga Ivinskaya, his companion, literary assistant, and the inspiration for Zhivago's Lara, also received some of the Zhivago royalties. After the KGB intercepted Pasternak's will on her behalf, the Soviets arrested and sentenced her and her daughter, Irina Emelianova, to eight years and three years of labor camp, respectively. The ensuing international outrage inspired a secret campaign in the West to win their freedom.Mancosu's new book-the first to explore the post-Nobel history of Pasternak and Ivinskaya-provides extraordinary detail on these events, in a thrilling account that involves KGB interceptions, fabricated documents, smugglers, and much more. While a general reader will respond to the dramatic human story, specialists will be rewarded with a rich assemblage of new archival material, especially letters of Pasternak, Ivinskaya, Feltrinelli, and d'Angelo from the Hoover Institution Library and Archives and the Feltrinelli Archives in Milan.
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