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Geburtstag: 1959-09-18
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: USA
Russia (birth)
Wohnorte: Moscow, Russia, USSR
Singapore
USA
Ausbildung: Moscow State University (1982)
Soviet Academy of Sciences (Ph.D. ∙ 1986)
National University of Singapore
Berufe: Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies and Critical Social Thought
Beziehungen: Zubok, Vladislav (co-author)
Organisationen: Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA
Preise und Auszeichnungen: Lionel Gelber Prize (with Vladislav Zubok), 1996, for Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev
Kurzbiographie: Professor Pleshakov has been teaching at Mount Holyoke since 1998, and in 2012 was named one of Princeton Review’s 300 Best College Professors. He is the author of numerous books, including There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism, Stalin’s Folly: The First Ten Tragic Days of World War Two on the Eastern Front, and The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga.

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Flight of the Romanovs von John Curtis Perry

If you’re new to the late Romanovs this book may be a little dense: so many Grand Dukes to keep track of! But if you’ve read several books & know the last 2 generations of the family fairly well, this book is like the richest of chocolate cakes: deliciously dense & full of nothing but goodness. There are amazing, gossipy stories on nearly every other page that fill in so many relationship subtleties (did you know Princess Paley hated Dmitri? Me neither!). This book also brings to life obscurer members of the family that maybe you’ve read of but find hard to place in the family tree. Now, for instance, I know exactly where Uncle Bimbo & Nikolasha belong & I know enough about them that they feel like individuals to me.

The major Romanovs are here too, of course: Nicky, Alex, Minnie, etc., but it’s the material on the lesser known family members that makes this book unlike any Romanov history I’ve read. Highly recommend if you know a bit about the family; don’t recommend as your first or second book on them (probably too confusing).… (mehr)

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susanbooks | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 23, 2023 |

The Tsar's Last Armada von Constantine Pleshakov

Didn't know anything about this before picking the book up at a sale. I've read a lot of Russian history before, but it was mostly about what was going on in St Petersburg. Learned a lot. I also learned a lot about naval operations. Very interesting book!

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spounds | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 19, 2020 |

The Flight Of The Romanovs A Family Saga von John Curtis Perry

A brief overall history of the Romanov Dynasty in Russia before the Revolution in 1917. The family history is outlined very well, and each family member and their relationships with one another is profiled. Parts are a little bland, but for an overview, I thought the story was conveyed well.

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choochtriplem | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 15, 2014 |

The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga von John Curtis Perry

Good book. Well written with a lot of information. Good addition to Romanov books for those who are into such and a good intro for those more casual readers.

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Whiskey3pa | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 28, 2011 |

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