The Ransom of Russian Art MTO DOVER_APR51 Or so my Grandpa Smedry

Or so my Grandpa Smedry claimed when he suddenly showed up to rescue me

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The Ransom of Russian Art MTO DOVER_APR51 Or so my Grandpa SmedryJohn McPhee's The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other. It offers unprecedented insight into Soviet culture at the brink of the Union's collapse. In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the