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Author:   Valerii Leonov
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Saur
Edition:   Reprint 2012
Weight:   0.669kg
ISBN:  

9783598114076

ISBN 10:   3598114079
Pages:   295
Publication Date:   17 February 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"I-V -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE. VERSIONS OF THE CHARGE -- PART ONE. BAN IN THE LATE EIGHTIES -- CHAPTER ONE. THE HOUSE IN BIRZHEVAYA LINIA -- CHAPTER TWO. PEOPLE, CHARACTERS, SITUATIONS -- CHAPTER THREE. THE FEBRUARY FIRE -- PART TWO. THE YEARS OF UPHEAVAL -- 1988 -- 1. Yu. Trefilov. After the Fire -- 2. D.S.Likhachev. Speech Made at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR -- 3. Phillip Taubman. Library Lost 400,000 Books in Soviet Fire -- 4. Leningrad Library Fire -- 5. RESOLUTION on the suspension of investigation of the criminal case concerning the fire of February 14-15, 1988 -- 6. V.A.Filov. On the Origins of the Library Syndrome -- 7. Dr. Sakharov's Remarks at Library of Congress Reception -- 1989 -- 8. V.P.Leonov. Speech of Welcome on the Occasion of Signing the Agreement on Establishment of the International Foundation of BAN Friends -- 9. REFERENCE on Information Check on the Erroneous Actions by the Administration of the Library of the Academy of Sciences (BAN of the USSR) -- 10. Rushworth M. Kidder. After Leningrad Library Fire. Russians Rally to Save Burned Books -- 11. Constance Walker. P.H. Glatfelter's Paper on Soviet Wish List. Leningrad Library Representatives Eye Product for Book Preservation -- 12. Library of Congress Receives $135,000 from Reader's Digest to Help Restore Fire-damaged Leningrad Library -- 13. Ye.Schekatikhin. How BAN Was Being Saved -- 14. V.P.Leonov. Speech made at the 55th General Session of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) -- 15. A.Baranov. A Gift for the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences -- 16. How BAN Was Being Saved. Echoes of Recent Happenings -- 1990 -- 17. V.P.Leonov. Speech Made at the Annual General Meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences on March 22,1990 -- 18. V.P.Leonov. Letter to the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academician G.I.Marchuk -- 19. A.Gaev. Forty Five Years in Captivity. The fate of millions of books that were brought back from the defeated Gemany is decided -- 20. Our Apologies -- 21. Ye.P.Chelyshev. Letter to the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academician G.I.Marchuk -- 22. M.F.Shaitanov. Where One Fire Was Extinguished, There Were Actually Two Fires in BAN: New Details -- 1991-1993 -- 23. V.P.Leonov. Letter to the Baltika Radio Station Director O.K.Rudnov -- 24. O.K.Rudnov. Letter to the BAN Director V.P.Leonov -- 25. The Cultural Situation is Extremely Difficult... A Dialogue between Academician D.S.Likhachev and the Chief Editor A. V.Filatov (Extracts concerned with the BAN fire) -- 26. V.P.Leonov. Letter to the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Academician Yu.S.Osipov -- 27. V.P.Leonov. On the True and False Things Said about the BAN Fire -- 28. A.Lisitsina. ""The Successful Future Development of a Country Largely Depends on the Attitude to its Past"". Interview with P.Waters -- 1994 -- 29. D.Grigoriev. BAN Was Set on Fire! "" W Investigates the Case -- 30. V.P.Leonov. The Library of the Academy of Sciences Is Turning 280 -- 31. Order N67 on Urgent Measures to Provide for the Safety of the Historical and Cultural Collections in BAN -- 32. Letter from the Members of the Department of Old Russian Literature at the Institute of Russian Literature -- 33. Appeal -- 34. V.P.Leonov. Letter to Academician Ye.P.Chelyshev and Zh.I.Alferov -- 1995 -- 35. D.Grigoriev. I Sleep More Soundly Than I Did in December. An Interview with the BAN Director -- 36. V.P.Leonov. BAN's Realities and Prospects. Report made on the election day of the BAN Director on May 11,1995 -- 37. Is Everything So Bad at the Academy of Sciences? Comments by the readers -- 38. Appeal by Ye.V.Anisimov -- PART THREE. THE REPRISAL -- CHAPTER ONE. CRIMINAL CASE ? 367 916 -- CHAPTER TWO. INVESTIGATION -- CHAPTER THREE. THE VERDICT -- EPILOGUE. THE LAST WORD -- EPILOGUE OF THE EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX -- Index -- Contents"

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