Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember

ISBN-13: 9780415088077 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 168 str.

Horsbrugh-Porte; Anna Horsbrugh-Porter; Anna Horsbrugh-Porter

Opis

Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the Revolution first-hand, this poignant collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique and moving record to life in Imperial and Bolshevik Russia.
The accounts give a personal insight into how the Revolution devastated the lives of the aristocracy, the intelligentsia and the foreigners of Mosocw and St Petersburg in the few weeks after the October 1917 upheaval. These people, previously amongst the wealthiest in Russia, were reduced to a life of poverty, persecution and exile. This forced excile has had a profound effect on these women. Their childhood memories have remained very sharp, with a volume of detail and intensity of recall peculiar to those whose premature transition from child to adult coincided with the traumas of revolution.

Recenzje

`..provides one of the most fascinating insights into pre-revolutionary Russia and the Bolshevik take-over of 1917 I have ever read.' - The Times

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 ANYA TROUP; Chapter 2 TATIANA VLADIMIROVNA TOPORKOVA; Chapter 3 PRINCESS SOPHIA WACZNADZE; Chapter 4 DOROTHY RUSSELL; Chapter 5 IRINA SERGEVNA TIDMARSH; Chapter 6 LUDMILA MATHIAS; Chapter 7 MARIE ALLAN; Chapter 8 OLGA LAWRENCE; Chapter 9 EUGENIA PEACOCK; Chapter 10 ADA NIKOLSKAYA; CHRONOLOGY; NOTES; INDEX;

O autorze

Anna Horsbrugh-Porter is a journalist with the BBC World Service., Elena Snow is the daughter of two Russian émigrés, and has grown up amongst the White Russian circles in exile in London., Frances Welch is a freelance journalist who writes on Russian topics for a number of British daily newspapers and journals.