What You Did Not Tell : A Russian Past and the Journey Home
What You Did Not Tell : A Russian Past and the Journey Home Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their…
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What You Did Not Tell : A Russian Past and the Journey Home
Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. His British father was the lucky one, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants who settled in London after escaping the civil war and revolution. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht.
His wife, Frouma, came from a family ravaged by the Great Terror yet somehow making their way in Soviet society. Max, the grandfather, had started out as a socialist and manned the barricades against tsarist troops, but never spoke of it. In the centenary of the Russian Revolution, What You Did Not Tell recounts a brand of socialism erased from memory - humanistic, impassioned, and broad-ranging in its sympathies.
But it also explores the unexpected happiness that may await history's losers, the power of friendship, and the love of place that allowed Max and Fro