What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past And The Journey Home
by Mark Mazower /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Uncovering their remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower
recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and
their descendants. It was a family which 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 Bolsheviks, civil war, and revolution. Max, the
grandfather, had started out as a socialist and manned the
barricades against Tsarist troops, never speaking a word about it
afterwards. His wife Frouma came from a family ravaged by the
Terror yet making their way in Soviet society despite it all.
Uncovering their remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower
recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and
their descendants. It was a family which 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 Bolsheviks, civil war, and revolution. Max, the
grandfather, had started out as a socialist and manned the
barricades against Tsarist troops, never speaking a word about it
afterwards. His wife Frouma came from a family ravaged by the
Terror yet making their way in Soviet society despite it all.
In the centenary of the Russian Revolution,
In the centenary of the Russian Revolution,What You Did Not
Tell
What You Did Not
Tell revitalizes the history of a socialism erased from
memory--humanistic, impassioned, and broad-ranging in its
sympathies. But it is also an exploration of the unexpected
happiness that may await history's losers, of the power of
friendship and the love of place that made his father at home in an
England that no longer exists.
revitalizes the history of a socialism erased from
memory--humanistic, impassioned, and broad-ranging in its
sympathies. But it is also an exploration of the unexpected
happiness that may await history's losers, of the power of
friendship and the love of place that made his father at home in an
England that no longer exists.
