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Tamara Petkevich - Memoir of a Gulag Actress - 9780875804286 - V9780875804286
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Memoir of a Gulag Actress

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Description for Memoir of a Gulag Actress Hardcover. Translator(s): Klots, Yasha; Ufberg, Ross. Num Pages: 495 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; AN; APB; BGFA; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.

In an abridged translation that retains the grace and passion of the original, Klots and Ufberg present the stunning memoir of a young woman who became an actress in the Gulag. Tamara Petkevich had a relatively privileged childhood in the beautiful, impoverished Petrograd of the Soviet regime's early years, but when her father—a fervent believer in the Communist ideal—was arrested, 17-year-old Tamara was branded a "daughter of the enemy of the people." She kept up a search for her father while struggling to support her mother and two sisters, finish school, and enter university. Shortly before the Russian outbreak of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
495
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875804286
SKU
V9780875804286
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Ref
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About Tamara Petkevich
Yasha Klots is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Ross Ufberg is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. Joshua Rubenstein is Fellow of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA.

Reviews for Memoir of a Gulag Actress
Much of the literary power of Memoir of a Gulag Actress lies in Petkevich's vivid recall of the people in her life: her first husband, Erik, and their lives together in Frunze where she joined a family that failed to accept her; Aleksandr Osipovich Gavronsky, a renowned theater director, who leads the prisoner troupe and adopts her as if she ... Read more

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