What you did not tell : a Russian past and the journey home
Mazower, Mark2017
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Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British father was the lucky one, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants who settled in London after escaping the civil war and revolution. Max, the grandfather, had started out as a socialist and manned the barricades against tsarist troops, but never spoke of it. His wife, Frouma, came from a family ravaged by the Great Terror yet somehow making their way in Soviet society. In the centenary of the Russian Revolution, 'What You Did Not Tell' recounts a brand of socialism erased from memory - humanistic, impassioned, and broad-ranging in its sympathies.
Main title:
What you did not tell : a Russian past and the journey home / Mark Mazower.
Author:
Mazower, Mark, author
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2017.
Collation:
379 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Other Press.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241321362 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1926581
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