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100 1 _aFischer, Victor.
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245 1 0 _aTo Russia with love :
_ban Alaskan's journey /
_cVictor Fischer ; with Charles Wohlforth.
260 _aFairbanks :
_bUniversity of Alaska Press,
_c(c)2012.
300 _a1 online resource (xv, 405 pages)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _aIntroduction; 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.
505 0 0 _aFull Circle23. State Senate; 24. Transitions; 25. Russian Reconnection; 26. Working Internationally; 27. Russian Endings; 28. Secrets to a Long Life; Chapter Notes; Acknowledgments; Index.
520 0 _aSon 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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600 1 0 _aFischer, Victor.
650 0 _aJews, Russian
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650 0 _aRussian Americans
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650 4 _aAlaska
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_x1959.
650 4 _aFischer, Victor.
650 4 _aJews, Russian
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650 4 _aRussian Americans
_zAlaska
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650 4 _aSoviet Union
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655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aWohlforth, Charles P.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=497059&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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