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Description edit
From the award-winning author of A People’s Tragedy and Natasha’s Dance , a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression There have been many accounts of the public aspects of Stalin’s dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Aleksei Simonov: Add a description of this character.
- Stalin
- Piatnitsky
- Valentina
- D. Z
- Aleksandra
- Antonina
- Marianna
- Mikhail
- Khrushchev
- Vladimir
- Nikolai
- Mama
- Julia
- Marksena
- Elena
- Tatiana
- Fadeyev
- Anatoly
- Leonid
- Ivan
- Pavel
- Natalia
- Zinaida
- Sonia
- Nadezhda
- Olga
- Krasnokamsk
- Slavin
- Galina
- Lenin
- Laskin
- Pavlik
- K. Simonov
- Konstantin Simonov
- Igor
- Inna
- Ilia
- Zoshchenko
Quotes edit
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“"He was shot in 1937." "She had a spoilt biography". These two simple lines capture the heart of this extraordinary book.”
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“By loving a child, the family turns him into an egotistical being, encouraging himself as the centre of the universe”
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“The ethos of the Party rapidly came to dominate every aspect of public life in the Soviet Russia, just as the ethos of the aristocracy had dominated public life in the tsaris Russia”
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“It seemed that in our years there were no mothers. There were only grandmothers”
Vladimir Kornilov
Setting & Locations edit
- Moscow
- Soviet Union
- London
- Soviet Russia
- Rgali
- Gulag
- Siberia
- Norilsk
- Zhenia
- Angelina
- Kremlin
- Kazakhstan
- Pravda
- Germany
- Kolyma
- New York
- Ukraine
- Obukhovo
- Arkhangelsk
- Cambridge
- Smolensk
- Perm
- Usa
- Sofia
- Great Terror
- White Sea Canal
- Kiev
- Poland
- Tbilisi
- Samuil
- Rgaspi
- Solovetsky
- Klavdiia
- Petrograd
- Voronezh
- Saratov
- Riazan
- Mass.
- Yevgeniia
- Krasnoiarsk
- Vorkuta
- Yevdokiia
- Komsomol
- Borshchagovsky
- Liudmila
First Sentence edit
Elizaveta Drabkina did not recognize her father when she saw him at the Smolny Institute, the Bolshevik headquarters, in October 1917.
Table of Contents edit
List of Illustrations
Notes on Proper Names
Maps
Family Trees
Introduction
1 Children of 1917 (1917-28)
2 The Great Break (1928-32)
3 The Pursuit of Happiness (1932-6)
4 The Great Fear (1937-8)
5 Remnants of Terror (1938-41)
6 "Wait for Me" (1941-5)
7 Ordinary Stalinists ( 1945-53)
8 Return (1953-6)
9 Memory (1956-2006)
Afterword and Acknowledgments
Permissions
Notes
Sources
Indez
Authors & Contributors edit
- Orlando Figes (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Allen Lane
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-312-42803-7
Page Count: 740
Publisher: Allen Lane
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-312-42803-7
Page Count: 740
Awards edit
- Samuel Johnson Prize (Finalist, 2008, Shortlist)
- The Orwell Prize (2008)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 306.8509470904
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