What you did not tell : a Russian past and the journey home / Mark Mazower.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Other Press, [2017]Description: 379 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781590519073
- 1590519078
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Mazower, M. M476 | Available | 33111008834596 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Uncovering their remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. In the centenary of the Russian Revolution, What You Did Not Tell revitalises the history of a socialism erased from memory - humanistic, impassioned, and broad-ranging in its sympathies. But it is also an exploration of the unexpected happiness that may await history's losers, of the power of friendship and the love of place that made his father at home in an England that no longer exists.
"In a tribute to his late father, British historian Mark Mazower traces his family's story from the end of the nineteenth century to today, beginning with his grandfather Mordkhel Mazower's birth in the town of Grodno, part of the Pale of Settlement to which the majority of the Russian Empire's Jews were confined. An activist and member of the Communist Bund, Mordkhel--who later assumed the more European name "Max"--Traveled widely in the years surrounding the Revolution before ultimately settling in England, where his son would live his entire life"-- Provided by publisher.