Other Russia: The Experience of Exile

by Michael Glenny (Author), Michael Glenny (Author), Professor Norman Stone (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.29

  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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  Hardcover
  1990

  $4.42

  This book is the product of many years research and interviewing. Michael Glenny travelled throughout the world to track down the eyewitness accounts reproduced here of the 1905 Revolution, the 1917 Revolution, and life in Soviet Russia in the time of Lenin and Stalin. The stories told here are the stories of those who left, emigres fleeing from Bolshevism, Stalinism and most recently, anti-Jewish discrimination. The book is both a picture of a world that has been lost and an account of the lives of some of the centuries most famous refugees.