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- Mutiny : the true events that inspired The hunt for Red October / by Hagberg, David.(CARDINAL)352394; Gindin, Boris.(CARDINAL)490311;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-380)." ... The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic Sea. The Hunt for Red October actually happened, and Boris Gindin lived through every minute of it ... It was the fall of 1975, and the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States were climbing. It seemed the two nations were headed for thermonuclear war, and it was that fear that caused most of the crewman of the FFG Storozhevoy to mutiny. Their goal was to send a message to the Soviet people that the Communist government was corrupt and major changes were needed. That message never reached a single person. Within hours the orders came from on high to destroy the Storozhevoy and its crew members. And this would have happened if it weren't for Gindin and few others whose heroism saved many lives ... From the danger aboard the ship to the threats of death from the KGB to the fear that forced him to flee the Soviet Union for the United States, Mutiny ... offers an eye-opening look at the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War."--Publisher description.- Subjects: Storozhevoĭ (Ship); Mutiny;
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- The last sentry : the true story that inspired The hunt for Red October / by Young, Gregory D.,1953-(CARDINAL)470113; Braden, Nate,1968-(CARDINAL)470115;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.The parade -- The commissar -- The cause -- The service -- The mutiny -- The aftermath -- The suppression -- The legacy.This real-life thriller, which inspired Tom Clancy's famous first novel, chronicles a 1975 mutiny aboard one of the Soviet Navy's most advanced warships, the destroyer Storozhevoy (Sentry in English). The mutiny was led by the ship's political officer, Valery Sablin, who planned to launch a revolution and overthrow the government. News of the incident was suppressed by the Soviets, but Gregory Young, an American naval officer studying at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, managed to piece the story together. In 1982 while doing some research in the basement of the U.S. Naval Academy library, Clancy came across Young's report of the attempt and wrote a fictionalized account that launched his career." "The Sentry mutiny and the events that preceded and followed it have never before been told in detail. With the help of recently declassified KGB documents and Sablin family papers, Young and Russian linguist Nate Braden provide a full account of events as they unfolded. In telling the compelling story, they offer a candid portrait of life in the USSR and shed light on many myths of the Cold War.- Subjects: Sablin, Valeriĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1939-1977.; Storozhevoĭ (Ship); Mutiny;
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