Parting with illusions / Vladimir Pozner, introduction by Brian Kahn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1990.Description: 324 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0871132877 :
Other title:
  • Parting with illusions : the extraordinary life and controversial views of the Soviet Union's leading commentator [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070/.92 20
LOC classification:
  • PN 5276 .P68 A3 1990
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Contents:
Introduction / by Brian Kahn --
One : My America -- Two: In limbo -- Three: Father of the people -- Four: A coach to England -- Five: Of pine trees and telegraph poles -- Six: The dragon, the lizards, and the time of the toad -- Seven: Breakthrough -- Eight: Homecoming -- Nine: Parting with illusions.
Summary: "Leading Soviet commentator Vladimir Pozner reflects on his nation from Stalin to perestroika, the evolution of the Communist party, past "cultural genocide," and the world's emergence from Cold War thinking." -- onlineSummary: "A political commentator and television celebrity of international status, Vladimir Pozner is known to more Americans than any other Soviet citizen besides the Gorbachevs. In this intensely personal and controversial book, Pozner, one of the leading interpreters of glasnost and perestroika, examines the Soviet Union and the United States as they begin to emerge from forty years of Cold War. Pozner is uniquely qualified to give us an insider's view of the Soviet Union in its historic state of change: born in France, he "grew up American," living in New York until he was fifteen and experiencing the dramatic shift from United States-Soviet wartime alliance to Cold War, He arrived in the Soviet Union in 1952, at the age of eighteen, and his life there has spanned Stalin's dictatorship to Girbachev's presetroika. Pozner is a product of two radically different worlds -- a capitalist America and a socialist Soviet Union. Looking honestly at the values and ethics of two very different and critically important national philosophies, he takes the best from each and articulates a strong humanistic philosophy....With intelligence and candor Pozner holds forth subjects as varied as Stalin's cultural policy of intellectual genocide...the changing realities of the Communist Party....national security in the information age, Cold War politics...the limits of dissent, censorship, and conscience, in both the Soviet Union and the United States, and "capitalistic" socialism and "socialistic" capitalism -- what perestroika will mean to America." -- book jacket.
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Includes index.

Introduction / by Brian Kahn --

One : My America -- Two: In limbo -- Three: Father of the people -- Four: A coach to England -- Five: Of pine trees and telegraph poles -- Six: The dragon, the lizards, and the time of the toad -- Seven: Breakthrough -- Eight: Homecoming -- Nine: Parting with illusions.

"Leading Soviet commentator Vladimir Pozner reflects on his nation from Stalin to perestroika, the evolution of the Communist party, past "cultural genocide," and the world's emergence from Cold War thinking." -- online

"A political commentator and television celebrity of international status, Vladimir Pozner is known to more Americans than any other Soviet citizen besides the Gorbachevs. In this intensely personal and controversial book, Pozner, one of the leading interpreters of glasnost and perestroika, examines the Soviet Union and the United States as they begin to emerge from forty years of Cold War. Pozner is uniquely qualified to give us an insider's view of the Soviet Union in its historic state of change: born in France, he "grew up American," living in New York until he was fifteen and experiencing the dramatic shift from United States-Soviet wartime alliance to Cold War, He arrived in the Soviet Union in 1952, at the age of eighteen, and his life there has spanned Stalin's dictatorship to Girbachev's presetroika. Pozner is a product of two radically different worlds -- a capitalist America and a socialist Soviet Union. Looking honestly at the values and ethics of two very different and critically important national philosophies, he takes the best from each and articulates a strong humanistic philosophy....With intelligence and candor Pozner holds forth subjects as varied as Stalin's cultural policy of intellectual genocide...the changing realities of the Communist Party....national security in the information age, Cold War politics...the limits of dissent, censorship, and conscience, in both the Soviet Union and the United States, and "capitalistic" socialism and "socialistic" capitalism -- what perestroika will mean to America." -- book jacket.

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