It's a cold clear afternoon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1941. Disappointed in the lack of snow, a high school senior runs inside the Shannon house to tell Mother his plans to catch a show with the guys. Across town inside the Beran house, an 8th grade girl decks the halls alongside her sister and mother for the Christmas season. Growing up during the Great Depression, these teenagers enjoy a close knit family lifestyle, hard work, and hometown values. With the afternoon news radio broadcasting in the background, the Shannons and the Berans would soon hear the same iconic hurried interruption to CBS Radio's program "The World Today." The attack at Pearl Harbor would forever alter their paths. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers the "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress the following day launching the United States into World War II. With brothers, cousins, and neighbors leaving civilian life, they would all pull together to support the war effort. In over 175 preserved letters, we follow the story of Bob, a recent recruit into the U.S. Navy as a radioman on a rugged submarine chaser, who becomes a pen pal with Jeanie, now a freshman at West View High School. Beginning to fall in love and unsure, but hopeful, of his success in courting Jeanie, Bob desires a long term relationship with Miss Beran. This book tells the story of how he does it -one letter at a time.
At first glance, the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, or Akademgorodok, appears as an outlier in academic excellence. This 'science city' is renowned for a preeminent university, dozens of research institutes, and a thriving technopark. At home, it is an emblem of Russian innovation; abroad, it is often portrayed as a potential threat, a breeding ground of cyber soldiers. Though Siberia has been the main source of post-1991 Russian carbon revenues, its soviet history and cold war legacy of internationalism demonstrates that territorial and scientific dimensions interlocked the moment the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences was created in 1957.Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored archives, Soviet SCI_BERIA focuses on how the post-Stalinist Siberia was redefined and represented through the ideal of rational development, the late socialist innovation practices, and the relationship between experts and the state. It offers a fresh insight into the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet Akademgorodok. In doing so, Tatarchenko not only fosters a conversation between history, area studies, and science studies but also sheds new light on Soviet modernity and the limits of its transformative projects.
At first glance, the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, or Akademgorodok, appears as an outlier in academic excellence. This 'science city' is renowned for a preeminent university, dozens of research institutes, and a thriving technopark. At home, it is an emblem of Russian innovation; abroad, it is often portrayed as a potential threat, a breeding ground of cyber soldiers. Though Siberia has been the main source of post-1991 Russian carbon revenues, its soviet history and cold war legacy of internationalism demonstrates that territorial and scientific dimensions interlocked the moment the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences was created in 1957.Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored archives, Soviet SCI_BERIA focuses on how the post-Stalinist Siberia was redefined and represented through the ideal of rational development, the late socialist innovation practices, and the relationship between experts and the state. It offers a fresh insight into the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet Akademgorodok. In doing so, Tatarchenko not only fosters a conversation between history, area studies, and science studies but also sheds new light on Soviet modernity and the limits of its transformative projects.
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