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Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death
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Winner of the 2014 Prix du Style
"Masterful . . . An eloquent addition to a violent episode in the history of science in the twentieth century." —Nature
In 1934, the highly respected head of the Soviet Union’s meteorology department, Alexei Feodosievich Wangenheim, was suddenly arrested without cause and sentenced to a gulag. Less than a year after being hailed by Stalin as a national hero, he ended up with thousands of other "political prisoners" in a camp on Solovetsky Island, under vast...
"Masterful . . . An eloquent addition to a violent episode in the history of science in the twentieth century." —Nature
In 1934, the highly respected head of the Soviet Union’s meteorology department, Alexei Feodosievich Wangenheim, was suddenly arrested without cause and sentenced to a gulag. Less than a year after being hailed by Stalin as a national hero, he ended up with thousands of other "political prisoners" in a camp on Solovetsky Island, under vast...