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Echoes of a Native Land

Serge Schmemann
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      In 1990 Serge Schmemann, ninety miles southward into the ancient Russian countryside to search for the estate of his forebears, local tsarist gentry who had been expelled from their home by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Drawing on family and state archives and on conversations with aged villagers, he traced the lives of his ancestors, following them into the Gulag or into exile in Europe and America, and in this book he re-creates their vanished world: the timeless pattern of nineteenth-century rural life; the revolutionary hope of the peasants, followed quickly by disillusion; the brutal collectivization of the Stalin years and the depression and depopulation of the late Soviet era. This is a deeply felt evocation of a country that has retained its essential beauty and harmony even in the face of the cruellest ravages of time and history.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Serge Schmemann EAN: 9780679757078 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 383 g HEIGHT: 203 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Random House USA Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 1999-02-22 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies WIDTH: 127 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Russia, USSR, Soviet Union, European history, History of other geographical groupings and regions

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      In 1990 Serge Schmemann, ninety miles southward into the ancient Russian countryside to search for the estate of his forebears, local tsarist gentry who had been expelled from their home by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Drawing on family and state archives and on conversations with aged villagers, he traced the lives of his ancestors, following them into the Gulag or into exile in Europe and America, and in this book he re-creates their vanished world: the timeless pattern of nineteenth-century rural life; the revolutionary hope of the peasants, followed quickly by disillusion; the brutal collectivization of the Stalin years and the depression and depopulation of the late Soviet era. This is a deeply felt evocation of a country that has retained its essential beauty and harmony even in the face of the cruellest ravages of time and history.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Serge Schmemann EAN: 9780679757078 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 383 g HEIGHT: 203 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Random House USA Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 1999-02-22 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies WIDTH: 127 cm SPINE:

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      Russia, USSR, Soviet Union, European history, History of other geographical groupings and regions

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