Leaving Russia : A Jewish Story
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| Title: | Leaving Russia : A Jewish Story |
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| Description: | Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence. |
| Authors: | Maxim D. Shrayer |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Refuseniks--Biography, Political activists--Soviet Union--Biography, Immigrants--United States--Biography, Jews--Soviet Union--Biography |
| Categories: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, HISTORY / Jewish |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence. |
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| ISBN: | 9780815610243 9780815652434 |
