"To Do and To Be": Portraits of Four Women Activists, 1893-1986

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Social reformers Gertrude Barnum (1866-1948), Mary Dreier (1876-1963), Pauline Newman (c.1888-1986), and Rose Pesotta (1896-1965) are the subjects of this fascinating comparative biography. Ann Schofield examines their personal lives along with their contributions to the suffrage, feminist, settlement house, and trade union movements in the early years of this century, and shows how these courageous activists helped to define a new model of womanhood that incorporated waged labor into the female life cycle.

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With this book full of revealing anecdotes, Juan Maria Alponte offers an overwhelming biographical work that honors the origins of Christopher Columbus and details the joys and tribulations of this enigmatic, astute, and adventurous man who faced uncertain voyages and obstacles. Alponte passionately depicts the efforts and challenges that Columbus faced until the end of his days, weak and lonely.

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This book is the outgrowth of shared interests between the editors and the contributing authors to provide a multidisciplinary perspective in evaluating universal service policy and recommending policy changes to accommodate a more competitive telecommunications environment. The book is interdisciplinary in nature to reflect the extremely complex context in which universal service policy is formed. The chapter authors represent a broad cross-section of disciplinary training, professional positions, and relationships in the telecommunications industry. Academic disciplines represented include law, economics, anthropology, communication, and business.

This book's purpose is to significantly enhance the development of effective telecommunications universal service policy among policymakers, industry members, and stakeholders in the United States. Universal service policy has been, and will continue to be, both enabled and constrained by the simultaneous interaction of social, political, technological, and economic forces in the environment in which it is formed. A more effective process for policy design is to seek agreement on how entitlements embedded in universal service policy should be modified as circumstances invariably change over time. Therefore, the volume reflects recent significant developments in U.S. universal service policy--the implementation of which continues to unfold.

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This book begins with the first Chevrolet SS models in 1964 and goes all the way through the SS Chevelle's last year (1973). Chevy's SS 396 was America's most popular muscle car in 1968. The SS454 and the small-block varieties are also featured. - Previously published as the Illustrated Chevelle Buyer's

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POOR EXAMPLE OF A BUYERS GUIDE.......2001-09-19

FIRST OF ALL LET ME SAY THAT I HAVE PURCHASED OTHER BUYERS GUIDE BOOKS BY MBI AND FOUND THEM TO BE INFORMITABLE AND WELL WRITTEN.
THE CHEVELLE BUYERS GUIDE WAS NOT AT ALL LIKE THE GTO BUYERS GUIDE WHICH I HIGHLEY RECOMMEND. THE ABOVE LISTED BOOK ONLY GAVE LIMITED SPECIFICATIONS AND PRODUCTION NUMBERS, AND NO ENGINE OR TRANSMISSION CODES. THE ONLY LIMITED INFORMATION YOU RECEIVE IN THIS BOOK WAS FOR THE "SS" MODEL AND THE "Z16". IF YOU WERE INTERESTED IN OTHER MODELS YOU MAY AS WELL FORGET IT. A BUYERS GUIDE SHOULD BE JUST THAT, A GUIDE FOR POTENTIAL BUYERS ON ALL MODELS. THERE WAS NO BUYERS GUIDE INFORMATION ON WHAT TO LOOK FOR ,AND WHAT NOT,PRODUCTION NUMBERS, CODES,AND VINS.
THIS BOOK WOULD DO FINE IF IT WAS TITLED "THE CHEVELLE Z16 AND BIG BLOCK SS".....BUT NOT BUYERS GUIDE....I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE OF NO USE TO A PROSPECTIVE BUYER.

A Highly Authoritative and Detailed Chevelle History.......1999-01-02

"A great little book. Elky, Yenko and COPO fans will also love this handy reference. Highly detailed: What significance does LaHarpe, Illinois, have to Chevelle history?"

QUALITY: Materials and Production - Excellent

PICTURES: 183

Original Factory Photographs: 126

Percent Original Factory Photographs: 69%

DIAGRAMS: 4

1968 Super Sport Stripe Layout

1968 Wheel Cover Options

1970 Cowl Induction; Parts and Layout

1971-71 Emission Controls; Parts and Layout

TABLES: 8

Relative Model Collectability: 1964-1965, 1966-1967, 1968-1969, 1970, 1971-1972

Super Sport Production Figures (by year)

Super Sport Engine Specifications (by year)

Big Block V8 Super Sports (by year; Production, Powertrain, Notable Details)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction - Chevrolet's Simply Super Legacy

1964-1965 - Beginning at the Beginning

1966-1967 - New Look, No Small Blocks

1968-1969 - It'd Be A Big Mover On Looks Alone

1970 - The Top of the Heap

1971-1972 - The Race Reaches the Finish

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Number of Entries: 686

Tom Wilson is a Chevelle historian. He is also the book reviewer for the web site "Team Chevelle" and the moderator of the news group alt.autos.chevelle.

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For 100 years, Steuben glass has represented the epitome of American crystal--internationally acclaimed, a gift of presidents, the treasured possession of generations of collectors. In this lavishly illustrated book, revised and fully updated to celebrate Steuben's centennial, Mary Jean Madigan traces the company's fascinating history and the manufacture of "the most perfect crystal the world has ever known."

Madigan provides an illustrated identification guide to virtually all Steuben pieces made since 1993, from one-of-a-kind museum objects to functional items such as glasses, candlesticks, bowls, and vases.

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Still The Essential Reference Work for clear Steuben Works.......1999-03-08

If you are a Steuben collector or simply one interested in the history and work of America's preeminent producer of fine crystal, Ms. Madigan's book is an essential and interesting reference work. The book features many beautiful photographs of important works by Steuben's best designers. The book's most valuable feature for collectors is its comprehensive catalogue of some two thousand Steuben items produced during the years 1933-1981. Although most stock pieces are represented only by line drawings and key dimension (rather than by photography), the information furnished is usually sufficient to facilitate identification of Steuben products, if not especially helpful on issues of valuation. If you love Steuben, you will want to own a copy of this book.

STEUBEN GLASS AN AMERICAN TRADITION IN CRYSTAL

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MADIGAN MARY JEAN
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Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal.
Mary Jean MADIGAN
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Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal
Mary Jean Smith; McKee, E. Marie Madigan
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Colombian houses have always been a showcase for the inhabitants of a highly diverse country. These houses range from the haciendas of coffee plantations to the restored colonial homes of Cartagena. Fascinating essays and attractive photos exemplify the evolution of the art of living in Colombia.

Las casas colombianas han sido desde siempre una vitrina de los anhelos, historias y aspiraciones de sus permanentes y diversos habitantes. Estos espacios desde las haciendas cafeteras hasta las restauradas y cálidas estancias de la Cartagena colonial hablan por sí mismo. Unos amenos textos y fotografías de este ejemplar se da vida a esa suma de detalles y ejemplifica la evolución de arte en Colombia.

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A must coffee table book for anybody who lived in Colombia!.......2001-04-12

This book is filled by spectacular photographs of exceptional houses in Colmbia. It demonstrates the incredible range of architecture suited to the variety of terrains of this beautiful country.

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1998 Premio Bienal: Historia

This tribute to the past half-century of domestic architecture in Colombia celebrates the works of Dicken Castro, Rogelio Salmona, Fernando Martínez Sanabria, and Hernán Vieco—designers who have distinctive and innovative interpretations of the modern home. Revealing the challenges they have faced and their remarkable solutions, this visual presentation shows how they have constructed houses that blend functionalism, creativity, and simplicity and are at the same time a pleasure to inhabit.

Recorra el último medio siglo de arquitectura doméstica en Colombia y descubra por qué constituye una de las muestras de mayor alcance e importancia en el escenario de la arquitectura latinoamericana. Descubra cómo Rogelio Salmona, Dicken Castro, Hernán Vieco y Fernando Martínez Sanabria, entre otros grandes nombres de la arquitectura moderna colombiana, han sabido dar a cada una de sus creaciones la identidad única que refleja los rasgos indisolubles de sus creadores.

Análisis de un simulacro cultural en los personajes femeninos de La casa de las dos palmas.(de Manuel Mejía Vallejo): An article from: Estudios de Literatura Colombiana

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Análisis de un simulacro cultural en los personajes femeninos de La casa de las dos palmas.(de Manuel Mejía Vallejo): An article from: Estudios de Literatura Colombiana
Claudia Patricia Acevedo Gaviria
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Title: Análisis de un simulacro cultural en los personajes femeninos de La casa de las dos palmas.(de Manuel Mejía Vallejo)
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Casa Colombiana

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La casa (Nueva literatura colombiana)
Victor Lopez Rache
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Readers of all ages will enjoy this classic Christmas tale with a local twist, based on the original poem by Clement C. Moore. Truly a local Christmas favorite!

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lush images abound.......2007-07-12

In this retelling of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" Santa makes his yearly visit on Christmas Eve to Hawaii. The pictures are engaging and colorful, and so very beautiful that children will want to look at them over and over. The text is liberally laced with Hawaiian words which make the reading aloud a little clumsy, especially for those who are unfamiliar with their pronunciations, but the book is so appealing that families will make it a yearly holiday read. I discovered this book at a reading by a colleague and my children were so enchanted that they begged me to purchase them a copy.

Night Before Christmas in Hawaii, The (Night Before Christmas)

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Sue Carabine
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Santa surprises Mrs. Claus with a trip to Hawaii where they deliver gifts, teach the hula and learn how to surf!

Ke ahiahi Mamua O Kalikimaka: ÔTwas the Night before Christmas in Hawaii

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Ke Ahiahi Mamua O Kalikim Aka Twas The Night Before Christmas In Hawaii

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Although Francesco Geminiani is a relatively well-known composer whose name is frequently cited in studies of baroque music, his biography and works have been relatively little researched. His music was often analysed without due reference to the biographical and historical background, and his multifarious activities as violinist, composer, theorist, and small-scale entrepreneur were never considered in their full interrelationship. The present study represents a first attempt at providing a comprehensive account of a composer who in the first half of the eighteenth century dominated the English musical scene alongside Handel. The first volume traces Geminiani's life and career from his birth in Lucca in December 1687 to his activities in three centres: London, Paris, and Dublin. After analysing the critical reception to Geminiani, both contemporary and modern, Dr Careri examines his compositions by genre, illustrating his remarks with some 39 music examples, some presented in facsimile. The second volume is a complete thematic catalogue with music incipits, containing details of primary sources, reworkings and transcriptions, and modern editions.

Sonata No. 2 in B Minor (Kalmus Edition)

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Twelve Instructive Duets, Kalmus Edition

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Francesco Geminiani: (1687-1762). (book reviews): An article from: Notes

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John Walter Hill
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Title: Francesco Geminiani: (1687-1762). (book reviews)
Author: John Walter Hill
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Date: June 1, 1995
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The Art of Playing on the Violin 1751
Francesco Geminiani
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F. Geminiani's violin methods,
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Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762): Life and Works: Thematic Catalogue, Vol. 1

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Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762): Life and Works: Thematic Catalogue, Vol. 1
Enrico Careri
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Francesco Geminiani 1687-1762
Enrico Careri
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Inchanted Forrest
Francesco Cdagro Stv33630 Geminiani
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New and complete instructions for the violin

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New and complete instructions for the violin
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Stalin's Last Crime : The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
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Stalin's Purges: Numbers Alone Do Not Tell the Story

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Stalin's Last Crime

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Stalin's Last Crime : The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953

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A new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin's last great conspiracy.

On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be called, was Stalin's last crime.

In the fifty years since Stalin's death many myths have grown up about the Doctors' Plot. Did Stalin himself invent the conspiracy against the Jewish doctors or was it engineered by subordinates who wished to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Did Stalin intend a purge of all Jews from Moscow, Leningrad, and other major cities, which might lead to a Soviet Holocaust? How was this plot related to the cold war then dividing Europe, and the hot war in Korea? Finally, was the Doctors' Plot connected with Stalin's fortuitous death?

Brent and Naumov have explored an astounding arra of previously unknown, top-secret documents from the KGB, the presidential archives, and other state and party archives in order to probe the mechanism of on of Stalin's greatest intrigues -- and to tell for the first time the incredible full story of the Doctors' Plot.

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Superb Description of a Dictator's Spinmastery.......2004-02-23

As someone familiar with Russian history, I enjoyed this book. Among others, it debunks the myth that Stalin was weak and out of touch at the time of his death. The fact is he was clearly in control up until the time he died. Reading this book also raises more questions than it seems to answer. For example, how does this plot fuse with his foreign policy? The military? Was this strictly an internal affair or actually a prelude to Nuclear War with the United States? Although beyond the scope of this book, the reader was left wondering how Khruschev, Beria, Malenkov, et al worked out power arrangements after Stalin's death. We know, of course, that Beria was shot in December 1953; but what formed the BASIS for each person's power in what was clearly a lawless state?

Stalin's Purges: Numbers Alone Do Not Tell the Story.......2003-12-07

When the Second World War was over in 1945, First Secretary of the Communist Party, Joseph Stalin seemed to be at a personal peak of power. Despite monumental losses of dead Russian soldiers and civilians, Stalin had led Russia to a victory over Hitler and National Socialism that left him in control not only in Russia but of all of Eastern Europe as well. Further, because of his earlier purges in the late 30's, there was no one left to challenge him either within the Communist party or outside it. Yet, in STALIN'S LAST CRIME, Jonathan Brent and Vladimir Naumov picture a Stalin who, by the time of his death in 1953, was far from the omnipotent ruler that most Russians assumed he was. Brent and Naumov present Stalin as a man who could not change to match changing times. When the war in Europe was over, Russia was not the insular country it had been just ten years earlier. An increasing number of Russians had an equally increasing contact with Western, and hence, democratic ideas and values. The horrors of the war reaffirmed in the collected minds of Russians of the need for a legitimate government that followed its rule of law. The once all consuming fear of Stalin had diluted to the point where some of his less visionary peers would dare to contemplate in the pages of PRAVDA no less of who would follow Stalin once he was dead. Finally, there was Stalin's health, which by the late 1940's had regressed to the point that his Politburo comrades might legitimately wonder about the line of succession. Stalin took note of all this and was determined to turn back the clock to 1937 when he could purge millions of his countrymen merely by snapping his fingers. But by 1949, he could not do so. He needed more, and the so-called plot of the Jewish doctors allowed him to crank up the old machinery that would spin out huge nets to catch anyone whom Stalin suspected needed killing.

Much of the first half of STALIN'S LAST CRIME is a minute examination of the death of a party comrade, A. A. Zhdanov, who unexpectedly suffered a heart attack and was ordered to recuperate at Valdai, a health resort for members of the Soviet political elite. Zhdanov died there, and Stalin saw in his death the first filmy web of a plot that he knew would ultimately ensnare at least as many as he purged in the 1930's. Brent and Naumov progress from Zhdanov's death to blaming that death on a cabal of Jewish doctors. From there, they detail how Stalin began laying traps for nearly the entire leadership of the Soviet Secret Police, the MGB. Hundreds of high-ranking MGB officers were purged. Thousands of Jews were rounded up and shot or sent to a gulag. Clearly, Brent and Naumov portray a Russia that was only in the first stage of Stalinist immolation. Yet, when Stalin died, the entire apparatus of destruction came to a thankful halt. Russian society returned to a business as usual routine. The gloomy concluding chapters of STALIN'S LAST CRIME suggest that the monstrous vision of a bloody thug leader does not necessarily end with the death of that leader. In fact, many of the inner circle of Stalin's closest comrades were themselves arrested and shot by Stalin's successor, Nikita Khruschev, who decided that to hold onto power might require a Stalinist approach to housecleaning: a new broom must sweep most thoroughly every generation or so. Stalin's own virulent form of anti-semitism as suggested by Brent's and Naumov's subtitle: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, well indicates that for Stalin at least, recycling Soviet anti-semitism must always give way to creating demons that only he could vanquish.

Paper trail to nowhere.......2003-11-22

For all its admirably meticulous documentation, this book does not pierce the mystery of the Doctors Plot. For all the correspondence, interrogation transcripts and memos excavated from the Soviet archives, one archive remains forever closed: Stalin's implacably bloody mind.

Brent and Naumov chillingly recreate the omni-paranoiac climate among the Soviet leadership in the late Stalin era. These people had survived wildly irrational purges in the Thirties, but they best of all knew on what shaky ground they stood. Any hint of independence, any perceived threat to Stalin's dominance, could land them in the execution cellars.

The trouble is, Stalin rarely confided his plans to paper, so there is no smoking gun to be found. This sheaf of documentation fleshes out what the people involved said, certainly, and when they said it. But as the authors admit, they are not really much closer to learning the purpose of the whole grim charade. We don't even get as much detail in some instances, such as the Stalin-ordered murder of the prominent Soviet theater director Solomon Mikhoels, as was available in some Soviet-era books.

The elusiveness of the authors' task is illustrated by their use of sources. In addition to the archival material, they draw material from the memoirs of Molotov, Khrushchev, and retired NKVD assassin Pavel Sudoplatov. The authors are perfectly above board about the general unreliability of these memorists, so it says something that, even with the availability of the archives, they are reduced to consulting those books.

This admirable but ultimately unsuccessful book demonstrates the enduring mystery of the evil of Stalin.

Stalin's Last Crime.......2003-09-17

Fascinating well researched subject matter but somewhat ruminative and tedious. I found that could skip through many pages and find that the same events were being described yet again.

Interesting and Detailed Examination of Stalinist Terror.......2003-08-27

This is a fine-grained look at Stalinist terror. Based on original archival research by the authors and additional new information published primarily by Russian scholars, this book is a careful examination of the so-called Doctor's Plot, the last gasp of Stalin's systematic terrorization of Soviet society. The Doctor's Plot was a conspiracy fabricated by Soviet security organizations purporting to show an organized effort to undermine the Soviet State by destroying its leadership via negligent or murderous medical care. The Plot was viewed previously as an irrational and relatively (compared to the great purges, executions, and deportations of the 20s and 30s) minor aspect of Stalinist state terror. The authors argue that the Doctors' Plot was actually the likely prelude to a planned major convulsion that would reproduce many features of the great purges of the 30s. This is impossible to prove definitively but the authors make a good case that the Doctors' Plot was developed carefully by Stalin to eventually start a series of purges and trials that would result in a large scale terrorization of Soviet society. The authors also place the Plot in the context of other important Stalinist campaigns of the period, notably the anti-Semitic actions that preceded and are to some extent coincident with the events of the Doctors' Plot. In this case, the attack would expand to involve a wholesale assault on Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union. The authors conclude that Stalin pursued this end as a means of maintaining his absolute power and that only his death in 1953 prevented terrible atrocities on a scale with the crimes of the 20s and 30s. The result probably would have been something similar to the Cultural Revolution in China.
A surprising aspect of the book is the apparent demonstration of how relatively difficult it was for Stalin to piece together the Plot. The book contains fascinating details such as Stalin's dissatisfaction with coerced confessions because they were too inconsistent to be used for credible public show trials. There are also remarkable episodes of some figures in the Soviet securiry organizations criticizing documentation of these purported crimes. As the Soviet State matured, it appears that there were expectations that Soviet justice, claimed by Stalin to be essentially perfect, had to meet some realistic and rational expectations. This type of relative resistance probably only increased Stalin's desire to unleash a major purge.
Some prior reviewers comment that this book is not smoothly written. This is a fair comment as the authors use quotations from original documents and much of the text is a very careful analysis of the signficance of the original documents. In my opinion, however, this approach enhances the value of the book. The extensive quotations give readers a very good sense of the Kafkaesque and bizarrely bureaucratic nature of Soviet repression in a way that a more conventional approach cannot accomplish.
The book includes also a discussion of Stalin's death. Following the suggestion of the American scholar Amy Wright, the authors argue that Stalin may have been poisoned by Lavrenti Beria, the out of favor former head of the security services, with the anti-coagulant warfarin. This suggestion based on the fact that Stalin died from a cerebral hemorrhage and had a gastrointestinal hemorrhage during his final illness. This is plausible but his final illness is typical of individuals dying from major hemorrhagic strokes and gastric erosions (so-called stress ulcers) are fairly common in acutely and severely ill individuals and may cause significant gastrointestinal bleeding. It is more likely that Stalin died as a consequence of years of untreated hypertension.

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Doctors' Plot of 1953
Yakov Rapoport
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The Doctors' Plot of 1953 A Survivor's Memoir of Stalin's Last Act of Terror, Against Jews and Science

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Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors: 1948-1953

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