Marvin L. Kalb

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1) The Volga: a political journey through Russia

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Kalb, Marvin L

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CBS newsman's report on provincial life along the 2300-mile long Volga River during the mid-1960s.

2) The year I was Peter the Great: 1956 - Khrushchev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia

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Kalb, Marvin L

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The year 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called "the year of the thaw"--A time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, then the unpredictable leader of the Soviet Union. He astounded everyone by denouncing the one figure who, up to that time, had been hailed as...

3) Imperial gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the new Cold War

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Kalb, Marvin L

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Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and whenever possible tried to isolate it diplomatically. This...

4) Assignment Russia: becoming a foreign correspondent in the crucible of the Cold War

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Kalb, Marvin L

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"In the book Kalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union. Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public. He joins a cast of legendary figures along the way, from Murrow himself...