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Melting the Ice Curtain: The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier

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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 day after today. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988 Friendship Flight reunited Native peoples of common languages and cultures for the first time in four decades. It and other dramatic efforts to thaw what used to be referred to as the Ice Curtain launched a thirty-year era of perilous, yet prolific, progress.

Melting the Ice Curtain tells the tale of how inspiration, courage, and persistence by citizen-diplomats bridged a widening gap in superpower relations. David Ramseur used to be a first-hand witness to the danger and political intrigue, having flown on that first Friendship Flight, and having spent thirty years in the back of the scenes with a few of Alaska’s perfect officials. As Alaska celebrates the 150th anniversary of its purchase, and as diplomatic ties with Russia turn into perilous, Melting the Ice Curtain shows that history may hold the most efficient lessons for restoring diplomacy between nuclear neighbors.

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