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Stalin's meteorologist : one man's untold story of love, life, and death / Olivier Rolin ; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz.

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"In 1934, the highly respected head of the Soviet Union's meteorology department, Alexei Feodosievich Wangenheim, was suddenly arrested without cause and taken to a gulag. Less than a year after being hailed by Stalin as a national hero, he ended up with thousands of other 'political...

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Main Author: Rolin, Olivier (Author)
Other Authors: Schwartz, Ros (Translator)
Other title:Météorologue. English
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2017.
Edition:First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Wangengeĭm, Alekseĭ Feodosʹevich, > 1881-1937.
Solovet︠s︡kiĭ lagerʹ osobogo naznachenii︠a︡ > History.
Soviet Union. > Gidrometeorologicheskiĭ komitet > Biography.
Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Biography.
Meteorologists > Soviet Union > Biography.
Political persecution > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1936-1953.

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