The Other Russia

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THE OTHER
The Other Russia gathers together the voices and experiences of Russian émigrés, a collection as varied as the regions from which these exiles fled—out of physical, spiritual, or political necessity. More than three million people have emigrated from Russia in this century. The sixty memoirs and oral histories here are a mosaic of testimonies—some beautiful, some shockingly brutal—that provide a fascinating portrait of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia.
Slava Kurilov, an oceanographer and member of the Academy of Sciences, jumped off a Soviet cruise ship and drifted for two days in the Pacific Ocean before washing ashore in the Philippines; Pyotr Petrovich Shilovsky, an aristocrat of St. Petersburg, witnessed the disintegration of his own authority in the early months of 1917; Alexandre de Gunzburg, member of a well-known Jewish banking family was beaten and shot during the Kiev pogrom of 1905; and Metropolitan Anthony Bloom left Russia as a child to work later as a... Tovább

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THE OTHER
The Other Russia gathers together the voices and experiences of Russian émigrés, a collection as varied as the regions from which these exiles fled—out of physical, spiritual, or political necessity. More than three million people have emigrated from Russia in this century. The sixty memoirs and oral histories here are a mosaic of testimonies—some beautiful, some shockingly brutal—that provide a fascinating portrait of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia.
Slava Kurilov, an oceanographer and member of the Academy of Sciences, jumped off a Soviet cruise ship and drifted for two days in the Pacific Ocean before washing ashore in the Philippines; Pyotr Petrovich Shilovsky, an aristocrat of St. Petersburg, witnessed the disintegration of his own authority in the early months of 1917; Alexandre de Gunzburg, member of a well-known Jewish banking family was beaten and shot during the Kiev pogrom of 1905; and Metropolitan Anthony Bloom left Russia as a child to work later as a doctor in Nazi-occupied France, contributing to the resistance movement by stealing supplies and falsifying X-ray photographs of German patients.
These are stories of triumph, disaster, endurance, and will. They capture the internal turmoil of the Russian émigré: the conflict between the love of homeland and desire to leave it; the ambivalence between assimilation and preservation of Russian heritage. Some of the stories are from aristocrats, some from peasants; some were victims of tsarism, some of Bolshevism. They describe nearly a century of Russian and Soviet history, seen through a lens of loss, peril, and hope.
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