Other Russia - Softcover

Michael Glenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571161308 ISBN 13: 9780571161300

Publisher: Faber Faber Inc, 1991

Synopsis

Where is "The Other Russia"? The answer to that is to be found throughout the world in the memories of people exiled from their motherland by the drama of the Russian Revolution. This book recounts the experiences of three generations of emigres from Russia, why they fled, how, where they chose to go and what they found when they got there. Michael Glenny interviewed hundreds of exiles and invited them to tell the stories of their lives. Norman Stone introduces and adds to their testimony. The experiences range from the princess who was the last lady-in-waiting to the Dowager Empress in the Crimea, the young Jewish lawyer escaping from Petrograd through German-occupied Kiev and the disabled Russian hounded by the KGB.

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From Publishers Weekly

Interviewing dozens of people who have emigrated or defected from the U.S.S.R. to various countries in the West since 1917, Glenny, a British translator, and Stone, author of Europe Transformed 1878-1916 , here compile compelling oral accounts of religious and political persecution under communism. Several Jews of diverse backgrounds are among those interviewed, but most of the speakers are from the ranks of the aristocracy, the upper bourgeoisie and the intelligentsia; recreating their lives in pre- or post-revolutionary Russia, all convey their courage and ambivalence at leaving. Commentaries by the authors provide insights into the reasoning of those who fled, and although the book is not, as Glenny and Stone acknowledge, a full-scale history of Soviet emigration, it is nonetheless worth reading for its depiction of the personal turmoil of the emigre.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

This is an anthology of recollections of 20th-century Russian emigres taken from interviews, manuscripts, and little-known published sources. Through these dramatic tales of individual suffering, flight, and exile, the authors describe the 20th-century emigration of Russians, especially the more educated classes, and Jews, from their native land. They provide insight into both the nature of exile itself as well as a unique perspective upon the history of the Soviet Union in three periods: 1900-21, 1922-45, and 1946-86. Well edited and translated, these memoirs should be enjoyable and edifying for a wide range of readers, from generalists to scholars.
-Rena Fowler, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., Marquette
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber Faber Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0571161308
• ISBN 13: 9780571161300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496