White king and red queen
Subtitle: how the Cold War was fought on the chessboard
By: Daniel Johnson.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780547133379
Subjects: Chess -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; Chess players -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; Chess -- Tournaments -- History -- 20th century; Chess -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union; World politics -- 1945-1989
Notes: Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2007.
Table of contents: title: From Baghdad to St. Petersburg; title: The recreation of the revolution; title: Terror; title: The opium of the intellectuals; title: The émigrés; title: The patriarch and his progeny; title: The Jewish factor; title: The American way of chess; title: Bobby's odyssey; title: An achilles without an achilles heel; title: The death of Hector; title: The machine age; title: Defying the evil empire; title: The yogi versus the commissar; title: Soviet endgame : Kasparov versus Karpov; title: After the Cold War.