Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death
By: Olivier Rolin
3.67
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi the…
Want to Read $ 11.99"On se prend à se demander ce qui se serait passé si la folie de Staline, décapitant toutes les élites du pays, scientifiques, techniques, intellectuelles, artistiques, militaires, décimant la paysannerie et jusqu'à ce prolétariat au nom de quoi tout se faisait, dont l'URSS été supposée être la patrie, n'avait pas substitué, comme ressort de la vie soviétique la terreur à l'enthousiasme. [...] Peut-être se serait-il avéré un système infiniment préférable au capitalisme ? Peut-être le monde entier, à part quelques pays arriérés, serait-il devenu socialiste ? Allons, ne rêvons pas."-Olivier Rolin, Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death
"On se prend à se demander ce qui se serait passé si la folie de Staline, décapitant toutes les élites du pays, scientifiques, techniques, intellectuelles, artistiques, militaires, décimant la paysannerie et jusqu'à ce prolétariat au nom de quoi tout se faisait, dont l'URSS été supposée être la patrie, n'avait pas substitué, comme ressort de la vie soviétique la terreur à l'enthousiasme. [...] Peut-être se serait-il avéré un système infiniment préférable au capitalisme ? Peut-être le monde entier, à part quelques pays arriérés, serait-il devenu socialiste ? Allons, ne rêvons pas."-Olivier Rolin, Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death
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3.77
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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5.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
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4.30
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4.23
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4.25
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21. Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death
By: Olivier Rolin
3.67
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi the… read more
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"On se prend à se demander ce qui se serait passé si la folie de Staline, décapitant toutes les élites du pays, scientifiques, techniques, intellectuelles, artistiques, militaires, décimant la paysann…"-Olivier Rolin, Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death
