Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam

Hope Against Hope

Nadezhda Mandelstam with Max Hayward (Translator)

500 pages first pub 1970 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
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 A harrowing yet uplifting account of Stalin's persecution of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1930s, and of one man - Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), whose poetry, in spite of the unfolding tragedy of his life, preserved its unique creative gaiety....

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