Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets () is the first volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper as anti-communist satire for its children's supplement , it was serialised weekly from January 1929 to May 1930 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions du Petit Vingtième in 1930. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are sent to the Soviet Union to report on the policies of Joseph Stalin's Bolshevik government. Tintin's intent
What the Dog Saw statistics and its lack of technical grounding. "What the Dog Saw" debuted at #3 on the "New York Times" Bestseller List. It spent three weeks in the top 3 and a total of 16 weeks on the chart, appearing concurrently with Gladwell's previous book "Outliers". It was also an Amazon Top 25 seller for the month of November. "What the Dog Saw" was named to Bloomberg's top 50 business books of 2009. All of the articles in "What the Dog Saw" can be read for free on Gladwell's website. Part 1: "Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius" Part