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What You Did Not Tell - A Russian Past and the Journey Home (Paperback)
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What You Did Not Tell - A Russian Past and the Journey Home (Paperback)
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List price R339
Loot Price R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
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SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING
STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Brilliant ... a staggering story'
Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'Fascinating, vast
and rich ... a dramatic family memoir' Guardian 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. But
it also explores the unexpected happiness that may await history's
losers, the power of friendship, and the love of place that allowed
Max and Frouma's son to call England home.
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