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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 515 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren...
2) Where the Jews aren't: the sad and absurd story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish autonomous region
Author
Series
Publisher
Nextbook/Schocken
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
170 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Description
"The story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia as told through the strange history of the Soviet solution to the Jewish question. In 1929, the Soviet Union declared the area of Birobidzhan a homeland for Jews. In the late 1920s and early 1932, tens of thousands of Jews moved to Birobidzhan, chased from the shtetl by poverty, hunger, and fear. Birobidzhan was written about breathlessly by a small group of intellectuals who envisioned a home built...
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