Melting the Ice Curtain : the extraordinary story of citizen diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska frontier /
"Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988 Friendship Flight reunited Native peoples of...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | [Fairbanks, Alaska] : University of Alaska Press, 2017. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Maps
- Prologue
- A call to arms
- Extending hands of friendship
- A Juneau peacenik in the Kremlin
- Swimming against the current
- Historic flight approved
- Friendship flight to tomorrow
- Dramatic reversal
- Soviets return the favor
- Breaking the ice
- Adventure diplomacy across the Strait
- Deception on Diomede
- From Uelen to Vladivostok
- Visa-free reunification
- Golden Samovar Service
- Open for business
- Beyond the coup
- University of Alaska teaches Capitalism 101
- Oil in Sakhalin, flush toilets in Chukotka
- The thrill is gone
- Mercy mission to Magadan
- Always keep talking
- Detained in the Bering Strait
- A special Alaska-Russia affinity
- Appendix.