Authorhouse 2008 Softcover Fair Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Authorhouse, Date: 2008. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2008. Authorhouse ISBN 1434364585 9781434364586 [US]

ISBN10: 1434364585, ISBN13: 9781434364586, [publisher: AuthorHouse 2008-10] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The All Was Not Lost: Journey of a Russian Immigrant from Riga to Chicagoland. ISBN 1434364585 9781434364586 [GB]

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Bloomington IN Authorhouse 2008 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 690 p.

ISBN10: 1434364585, ISBN13: 9781434364586, [publisher: Authorhouse] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The book is a Russian immigrant's life story, written for himself, though with the hope that others may also find it interesting (after Dr. N. I. Pirogov). Chapter 1 begins with the family's chronicle in the Russian Empire, and how the author's parents ended up in Latvia following the Bolshevik revolution. It continues through the World War II years in Latvia, Germany and its post-war D. P. camps. In Chapter 2, the author recollects his educational experiences in America, the usual struggles of his immigrant parents to make a new life in their adopted country, and their passage into the next world in 1975 and 1988. The next two chapters are concerned with the author's work history as a scientist and professor of biochemistry at Rush Medical College in Chicago and elsewhere. Chapters 5 and 6 are concerned with the spiritual persona of the author: his Russian ethnicity and his Orthodox faith, including history of Russian immigration and the Orthodox Church in the U. S. The author's interactions with these communities are reviewed, as are his attempts to defend Orthodoxy and Russia's historical past in America's news media via letters to the editor and publication of the Chicago Russian-American. Chapter 7 is devoted to the author's family, i.e., life with his wife Marilyn and his sons ...
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