July 01, 2001

Book Picks - Government

by Linda DeLaine

Contemporary Russian Politics
Archie Brown
Paperback, 590pp.
Oxford University Press, Inc.
June 2001

Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization
Zoltan D. Barany (Editor) Robert G. Moser (Editor)
Paperback, 288pp.
Cambridge University Press
July 2001

Constitution of the Russian Federation
With Commentaries and Interpretation by
American and Russian Scholars
Paperback, 83pp.
Brunswick Publishing Corp.
January 1994

Red Files: Secrets from the Russian Archives
George Feifer, Peter Pringle
Hardcover, 213pp.
TV Books, L.L.C.
April 2000

The New Russians
Hedrick Smith
Paperback, 734pp.
Morrow,William & Co
October 1991

Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism
David M. Woodruff
Paperback, 248pp.
Cornell University Press
August 2000

The Anatomy of Russian Defense Conversation
David Holloway, Foreword by William J. Perry
Hardcover, 936pp.
Vega Press
March 2001

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1990: Presidents Bush and Gorbachev wound up a superpower summit in the United States with agreement on a number of arms control and trade issues.

1980: An alarm indicating a massive Soviet missile attack was registered by a communications computer connected to NORAD. 100 nuclear-armed B-52s were put on alert for imminent takeoff. Although the mistake was detected, the same computer produced an identical warning three days later on June 6, 1980. The problem was later traced to the failure of an integrated circuit in a computer, which was producing random digits representing the number of missiles detected.

1973: Cosmonaut Vladimir Nikolaevich Benderov dies at age of 48 -- Crash in Tu-144.

1973: Soviet Union's answer to Concorde, the TU-144, made its first appearance in the West at the Paris Air Show.

1876: Nikolai Burdenko, founder of neuro-surgery, born

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