Author : Ann Livschiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129646951
Growing Up Soviet
Ann Livschiz
Growing Up Soviet
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Growing Up in Moscow
Cathy Young
Author : Cathy Young
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Girls
ISBN : WISC:89044462216
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Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin
Emil Draitser
Author : Emil Draitser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520254466
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"This memoir conveys us back to Draitser's childhood and adolescence and provides a unique account of post-Holocaust life in Russia. We live side by side with young Draitser as he struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Despite the waves of anti-Jewish campaigns, which swept over the country and climaxed in the infamous "Doctors' Plot," we feel the Draitsers' loving family life - lively, evocative, and rich with humor. This intimate story ends with the death of Stalin and, through the author's anecdotes about his ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia."--BOOK JACKET.
The Genius Under the Table
Eugene Yelchin
Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536222340
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An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia. Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents’ dream that he become a national hero when he doesn’t even have his own room? He’s not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.
Twelve Months of a Soviet Childhood
Julia Gousseva
Author : Julia Gousseva
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1477600477
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Most books about the Soviet Union focus on politics, food shortages, or lack of democratic freedoms. This collection portrays everyday experiences of a young girl growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1970's and 1980's. Childhood can be a magical and innocent time oblivious to political regimes and problems.That's what these twelve stories strive to convey.
Growing Up in the Soviet Union
Miriam Morton
Author : Miriam Morton
Publisher : Imported Publication
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Children
ISBN : 0828524769
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Everything is Normal
Sergey Grechishkin
Author : Sergey Grechishkin
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781942645917
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Everything is Normal offers a lighthearted worm’s-eye-view of the USSR through the middle-class Soviet childhood of a nerdy boy in the 1970s and ’80s. A relatable journey into the world of the late-days Soviet Union, Everything is Normal is both a memoir and a social history—a reflection on the mundane deprivations and existential terrors of day-to-day life in Leningrad in the decades preceding the collapse of the USSR. Sergey Grechishkin’s world is strikingly different, largely unknown, and fascinatingly unusual, and yet a world that readers who grew up in the United States or Europe during the same period will partly recognize. This is a tale of friendship, school, and growing up—to read Everything is Normal is to discover the very foreign way of life behind the Iron Curtain, but also to journey back into a shared past.
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
Alex Halberstadt
Author : Alex Halberstadt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593133071
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union by Alex Halberstadt Pdf
In this “urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history” (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a past that still haunts him. NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Alex Halberstadt’s quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather—most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania, his Jewish mother’s home, to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. And he returns to his birthplace, Moscow, where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers’ wives, his mother consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a dangerous living by selling black-market American records. Halberstadt also explores his own story: that of an immigrant growing up in New York, another in a line of sons separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is a moving investigation into the fragile boundary between history and biography. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family’s formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suffering, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens’ lives.
Children of Glasnost
Landon Pearson
Author : Landon Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Children
ISBN : 0295970901
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The Girl from the Metropol Hotel
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Author : Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101993514
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography The prizewinning memoir of one of the world’s great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in Stalinist Russia Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel—the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles—Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation—of wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf, singing for alms, and living by her wits like Oliver Twist, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing—of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the dining tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food—we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged. “From heartrending facts Petrushevskaya concocts a humorous and lyrical account of the toughest childhood and youth imaginable. . . . It [belongs] alongside the classic stories of humanity’s beloved plucky child heroes: Edith Piaf, Charlie Chaplin, the Artful Dodger, Gavroche, David Copperfield. . . . The child is irresistible and so is the adult narrator who creates a poignant portrait from the rags and riches of her memory.” —Anna Summers, from the Introduction
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Eugene Yelchin
Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429949958
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A Newbery Honor Book. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings. But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Anya von Bremzen
Author : Anya von Bremzen
Publisher : Crown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307886835
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Pdf
A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations “Delicious . . . A banquet of anecdote that brings history to life with intimacy, candor, and glorious color.”—NPR’s All Things Considered Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly
Growing Out of Communism
Kelly Herold,Olga Bukhina
Author : Kelly Herold,Olga Bukhina
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3506791842
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No Smiling Allowed
Julia Bendis
Author : Julia Bendis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734126108
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Grandma started running around with a metal pot, asking all the neighborhood kids to sit and pee in it. That's a sight I will never forget. She was a tough Ukrainian Jew that survived the war, so no kid wanted to ask questions. They just sat on it and peed in that pot. No Smiling allowed is a comedic take on life in the former Soviet Union, as an immigrant in America. Julia Bendis has compiled many years of funny stories about her old-fashioned and traditional Russian parents, their understanding of how life works in the United States, their hilarious adventures, and her own younger generation's view of what it was like to blend in as a weird-looking kid from Russia. The book follows Julia and her family from their life in Riga, Latvia, which was part of the former Soviet Union, through their move to California and all the adventures in between. Who knew that assimilation in a new country could have so many hilarious twists and turns?
Narrating the Future in Siberia
Olga Ulturgasheva
Author : Olga Ulturgasheva
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857457660
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The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. The first full-length ethnographic study among the adolescence of Siberian indigenous peoples, it presents the young people's narratives about their own future and shows how they form constructs of time, space, agency and personhood through the process of growing up and experiencing their social world. The study brings a new perspective to the anthropology of childhood and uncovers a quite unexpected dynamic in narrating and foreshadowing the future while relating it to cultural patterns of prediction and fulfillment in nomadic cosmology. Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork for a decade in Siberia on childhood, youth, religion, reindeer herding and hunting and coedited Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books 2012).