American letters from Khrushchev's Russia
Subtitle: surprising impressions of life behind the iron curtain, 1961-1962
By: Douglas M. Bowden
Publisher: Douglas M. Bowden
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Seattle, Washington]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781484914267
Subjects: Correspondence; Description and travel; Social life and customs
Notes: Letters sent when conducting researching in Russia.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 2 September 1961; title: Flights: New York to Berlin; title: First Impressions of Berlin; title: West Berlin the Week the Wall Went Up; title: Early September 1961; title: First Days in Moscow; title: Population Flight from West Berlin; title: Research Project on the Orienting Reflex; title: French Exhibition in Moscow; title: Mid-September 1961; title: Culture Shock and Cognitive Adaptation; title: Different Food; title: Strange Ways to Obtain It; title: The Dormitory Maze; title: 26 September 1961; title: Departmental Meeting on Curriculum; title: 13 October 1961; title: Russian is Tough; title: Lecture in Pavlovian Dogma; title: Gifts and Mailing; title: 23 October 1961; title: A Typical Day at Moscow State; title: Linesmanship; title: Political Philosophy Seminar; title: 2 November 1961; title: Tour of ZiL Truck Factory; title: Artist-Cyclist-Icon Collector; title: Luria's Apartment; title: 6 November 1961; title: Red Square Parade; title: Dealing with Stalin's Errors; title: 22 November 1961; title: Stalin Exits the Mausoleum; title: Gagarin Lectures at the University; title: Nixon on Russians' Desire for Peace; title: 23 November 1961; title: Arrival of David Lindsley from UCLA; title: Mystery of the Disappearing Spoons; title: Comparing Izvestia with TIME; title: Third-World Student Attitudes; title: Late December 1961; title: Year-End Letter to Many Friends; title: Summary of Soviet Surprises; title: Student Interests and Attitudes; title: First and Second Impressions of Soviet Lifestyle; title: 31 December, 1961; title: Toasts; title: 19 January 1962; title: New Year's Parties; title: The Russian Grippe; title: Ballet in the Kremlin; title: Tour and Summer Plans; title: More on Foreign Student Attitudes; title: 26 January 1962; title: Mystery of the Disappearing Stamps; title: Political Economics in Iraq; title: Late January 1962; title: Russian Student Attitudes; title: Komsomol: The Communist Youth Organization; title: 7 February 1962; title: Learning Russian from Pravda; title: 20 February 1962; title: Post Office Follies; title: Nights at the Sputnik and Moon Cafes; title: Translation Job; title: February 1962; title: A Rich Uncle for Visual Systems Research; title: 13 March 1962; title: Report on Grad Student Tour of Yaroslavl; title: 17 March 1962; title: More on Yaroslavl Tour; title: Soviet and US Space Programs; title: 21 March 1962; title: Unexpected Author as People's Artist; title: 23 March 1962; title: International Women's Day; title: 1 April 1962; title: Student Journalism Questionnaire; title: VW Order for Wolfsburg Pickup; title: Photographers from USSR Magazine; title: Playboy for Komsomol Acquaintance; title: 4 April 1962; title: Tbilisi: Capital of Soviet Georgia; title: Georgian Hospitality; title: One Georgian's View of Stalin; title: Second Week of April 1962; title: The Russian Primate Center in Sukhumi; title: Interesting Georgian Personalities; title: National Identity under Soviet Communism; title: Observations of Religion in Tbilisi; title: Third Wee of April 1962; title: Rational Talk on Disarmament; title: Political Economics; title: US Ambivalence on Social Conscience; title: Late April 1962; title: Popular Reportage on the Nuclear Arms Race; title: Antibiological Warfare: A Required Course for Biologists; title: Late May 1962; title: Visitors from Home; title: Summer Plans; title: Early June 1962; title: Nazarov: The Consummate Bureaucrat; title: Request to US Cultural Exchange Negotiators; title: 7 June 1962; title: Anticipation of Leningrad Trip; title: Moscow's Dismissive Report of Stanford Achievement; title: Late June 1962; title: Highlights of Leningrad; title: Finishing Research Project; title: Late June 1962; title: Pavlov-Soviet Relations; title: Antireligious Museum; title: World's Biggest Outdoor Swimming Pool; title: 5 July 1962; title: Fourth of July at the Ambassador's Residence; title: Khruschev and Colleagues Drop By; title: Passport and Registration Follies; title: 20 July 1962; title: Russian Attitudes toward the French; title: Russian Temperament; title: Impressions of Family Life; title: 25 July 1962; title: Last Words from Moscow; title: Chinese Circus; title: 2 August 1962; title: Into West Berlin: From the East This Time; title: 8 August 1962; title: Welcome Rock 'n' Roll and German Pop Travel Plans; title: 16 August 1962; title: Wolfsburg, Braunschweig, Cologne, Bonn, and Stuttgart; title: Room with a Viewing in Munich; title: 31 August 1962; title: Language Conference in West Berlin; title: 13 September 1962; title: Reentry Impressions; title: Boston Customs; title: 7 February 1992; title: Passing Customs Six Weeks after the Collapse; title: Fear of Post-Soviet Dictatorship Outweighs Fear of Deprivation; title: Banking Problems; title: 2 October 2007; title: Post-Soviet Bureaucracy: The More Things Change...