Stalin's apologist : Walter Duranty : the New York Times's man in Moscow

• Autore: Taylor S.J
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, USA, 1990
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 pages)
• Disciplina: 070.4; 070.4332092
• Soggetto topico: Foreign correspondents - United States; Foreign correspondents - Soviet Union
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Prologue; I: Liars Go to Hell; II: Maggots upon an Apple; III: For You But Not for Me; IV: A Sea of Blood; V: A Mad Hatter's Tea Party; VI: ""Luck Broke My Way""; VII: A Roman Saturnalia; VIII: The Mysterious Fatalism of the Slav; IX: Applied Stalinism; X: Dizzy with Success; XI: A Blanket of Silence; XII: The ""Famine"" Is Mostly Bunk; XIII: The Masters of Euphemism; XIV: Getting Away With It; XV: Hypocritical Psychologists; XVI: A Citizen of the World; XVII: Hollywood; XVIII: I Write As You Please; XIX: Midnight Minus One Minute; XX: Death Is the End; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Short, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin's Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world's most famous foreign correspondent. Yet for almost twenty years his articles filled the front page of The New York Times with gripping coverage of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. A witty, engaging, impish character with a flamboyant life-style, he was a Pulitzer Prize winner, the individual most credited with helping to win U.S. recognition for the Soviet regime, and the reporter who had predicted the success of the Bolshevik state when all others claimed it was
• Titolo autorizzato: Stalin's apologist
• ISBN: 0-19-993817-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815712003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II