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Leaving Leningrad

Li͡udmila Shtern

Li͡udmila Shtern. A nostalgic and humorous memoir of life under communism and capitalism. Although women writers have held a conspicuous place in the history of modern Russian literature, they have been slow to find their true voices in exile. Ludmila Shtern, a geologist/writer who immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1975, offers a completely fresh, unsentimental look at daily life in the former Soviet Union and in the United States in the second half of the ...

Brodsky: A Personal Memoir

Li͡udmila Shtern

Brodsky was a friend of the author's family and confided his thoughts and feelings to her, as well as poetry in progress, over more than thirty years both before and after their emigration.

Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics ...

Daniel Kreiss

... I thank Michael Schudson, Richard John, Marshall Ganz,Jim Katz, Beth Noveck , Caroline Lee, Edward Walker, Patrick Lynn Rivers, Jeffrey Alexander, Nina Eliasoph,Jeremy Shtern, Fenwick Mckelvey, Aaron Shaw, Christina Dunbar- Hester, ...