Leaving Russia : A Jewish Story /

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A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. The author chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shrayer, Maxim, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2013
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shrayer, Maxim, > 1967-
Shrayer, Maxim, > 1967- > Childhood and youth.
Refuseniks.
Political activists.
Jews.
Immigrants.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Refuzniks > Biographies.
Activistes > URSS > Biographies.
Juifs > URSS > Biographies.
Refuseniks > Biography.
Political activists > Soviet Union > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
Jews > Soviet Union > Biography.
United States.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Biography.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. The author chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, this is a searing account of the KGB's persecution of refuseniks, a poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War.
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (360 pages).
ISBN:9780815652434

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