Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death

by Olivier Rolin

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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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161902781X
• ISBN13: 9781619027817
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.3"