Making Waves : Stories from My Life
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In this gripping personal memoir, Yakov Alpert (b. 1911) recalls his life as an insider in the Soviet scientific community, a world renowned radio physicist, and eventually a refusnik and dissident who emigrates to the United States. Alpert provides a firsthand view of the entire life cycle of the U.S.S.R. and offers unique insights into the responses of scientists and citizens to the repression and anti-Semitism of the Soviet regime.
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Yakov Alpert (b. 1911) has been making waves all his life-in scientific laboratories, where his pioneering work as a radio physicist earned him world renown, and in the Soviet Union, where he defied the repressive Soviet regime, became a refusnik and a dissident, and at the age of 76 finally won permission to emigrate to the United States. Alpert tells in this gripping personal memoir what it was like to be a scientist during the entire life cycle of the Soviet Union. His account provides a uniquely revealing look inside the Soviet scientific community, a firsthand view of Soviet society from postrevolutionary days to the nation's ultimate collapse, and a thought-provoking description of how scientists and citizens responded, some bravely and some cravenly, to the repression and anti-Semitism of the Soviet regime.
Making Waves : Stories from My Life
Making Waves: Stories from My Life,Yakov Alpert,Yale University Press,0300078218,(IAkov Lvovich),(ëIìAkov L§vovich),Alpert, IA. L,Al§pert, ëIìA. L.,Biography,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Physicists,Physics,Russia (Federation),Scientists,Scientists - General,20th century,Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology,Biography: general,European history: from c 1900 -,Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe),History of science
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