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020			_a9781400067060
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092			_aHalberst A. _bH157
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aHalberstadt, Alex, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aYoung heroes of the Soviet Union : _ba memoir and a reckoning / _cby Alex Halberstadt.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2002
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_axxiii, 289 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aThe forgotten -- The bodyguard -- Number 19 -- The motherland calls -- Camp success.
520			_aCan trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement. His search takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather--most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin--to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped three generations of his family. He visits Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. And he returns to his birthplace, Moscow, where his glamorous grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers' wives, his mother consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a dangerous living dealing in black-market American records. Along the way, Halberstadt traces the fragile and indistinct boundary between history and biography. Finally, he explores his own story: that of an immigrant who arrived in America, to a housing project in Queens, New York. A now fatherless ten-year-old boy struggling with identity, rootlessness, and a yearning for home, he became another in a line of sons who grew up separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family's formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, 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.
600	1	0	_aHalberstadt, Alex _xTravel _zRussia (Federation)
600	1	0	_aHalberstadt, Alex _xChildhood and youth.
650		0	_aJews, Soviet _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aJews _zSoviet Union _vBiography.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aTravel writing. _2lcgft _96889
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