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Author Nicholson, John.

Title A long road home : the life and times of Grisha Sklovsky / by John Nicholson
Published North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Printing, 2009

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Description xiv, 251 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Siberia -- Berlin -- Lyon -- Czech brigade -- England -- Waiting -- Invasion -- From Greece to Paris to America -- Melbourne -- Family, friends and Europe -- Battlegrounds and the antarctic -- New directions and multiculturalism -- SBS television -- Of Camberwell and other battles -- Moscow -- Last days
Summary "Dr Grisha Sklovsky, a former President of AIIAV from 1974 to 1977, is best known as the foundation chairman of SBS Television, but it is his early life and his love affair with a young Australian woman from a prominent Melbourne family that reveal a remarkable story. By the time Grisha was 24, in 1939, he had lived through much of the turmoil affecting Europe in the early 20th century - and had witnessed much of it. A charming, sophisticated, brilliant and wealthy young Russian, he had led a privileged, albeit a forcedly peripatetic, life - Siberia, Berlin, France with doctoral research in a Nobel Prize-winning laboratory. War curtailed the promise of those early years. The war years were spent in England with the Czech Brigade after having faced, alongside the French army, the German blitzkrieg at the Marne. Grisha Sklovsky's story bears witness to great events as well as to personal tragedy, to triumphs and disappointments born of major shifts in international politics."--AIIAV website - book launch
Analysis Biography & autobiography (Australia)
Broadcasting - Australia - History
Ethnic studies (Australia)
Jewish refugees - Australia
Jews - Australia - Biography
Media studies - TV & radio (Australia)
Multiculturalism in mass media - Australia
Russians - Australia - Biography
Television broadcasting - Australia - History
Notes Contents: Siberia -- Berlin -- Lyon -- Czech brigade -- England -- Waiting -- Invasion -- From Greece to Paris to America -- Melbourne -- Family, friends and Europe -- Battlegrounds and the Antarctic -- New directions and multiculturalism -- SBS television -- Of Camberwell and other battles -- Moscow -- Last days. Includes bibliographical notes and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sklovsky, Grisha., 1915-1995
Sklovsky, Grisha -- Political activity.
Sklovsky, Grisha.
Special Broadcasting Service (Australia)
Australia. Special Broadcasting Service. -- History
Australia. Special Broadcasting Service
Special Broadcasting Service (Australia) -- History.
SUBJECT Méthodes & traités. Série III, Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002037865 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1918-1945 -- Biography
Subject Broadcasters -- Australia -- Biography.
Broadcasting -- Australia -- Biography.
Broadcasting -- Australia -- History.
Broadcasting -- Australia.
Chemists -- Australia -- Biography.
Explorers -- Antarctica -- Biography.
Jewish refugees -- Australia -- Biography.
Jews -- Australia -- Biography.
Multiculturalism -- Australia -- History.
Multiculturalism in mass media -- Australia.
Multiculturalism -- Australia.
Russians -- Australia -- Biography.
Russians -- Australia.
Television broadcasting -- Australia -- Biography.
Television -- Australia -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045717 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Europe -- History -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045717
USSR -- History -- 1917-1936 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125811 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
USSR -- History -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125811
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Australia. Special Broadcasting Service
Australian Institute of International Affairs. Victorian Branch.
LC no. 2009674675
ISBN 9781921509438
Other Titles Life and times of Grisha Sklovsky