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The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space From Stalin to Star Wars
ISBN: 978-0-471-02031-8
Hardcover
339 pages
April 1994
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Partial table of contents:

Tickets to Mars.

Going to Kazan.

War.

Only Physics Makes Sense.

The Kurchatov Institute.

My Mentors.

Landau.

Kapitsa: The Lone Warrior.

A Hostage to Politics.

Fusion.

Farewell, Moscow.

The Giant Leap Forward.

The Academy of Sciences: The House of Lords.

The Beginning of a Space Career.

The Chief Designer and the Chief Theorist of Cosmonautics.

The War of the Titans.

War Games in the Academy.

From Here to Eternity.

The War of the Worlds.

Big Oleg.

Gorbachev.

The Call of the Name.

The Revenge of the Comet.

In Place of an Epilogue.

Glossary.

Index.