Hope Abandoned: A Memoir
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some minor chipping on edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No markings noted. Binding: Intact.
Hope Abandoned is the powerful second memoir by Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of the celebrated Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who perished in Stalin's labour camps. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward, this unflinching account chronicles the brutal realities of life under Soviet totalitarianism, presenting a raw and intimate portrait of intellectual survival amid state terror. Where her first memoir, Hope Against Hope, focused tightly on her husband's fate, this volume widens its lens to cast a devastating judgement on an entire generation of Russian intelligentsia who capitulated to or colluded with the Soviet regime. Written with scorching moral clarity and literary precision, it stands as one of the great documents of twentieth-century witness literature — an indictment of tyranny and a testament to the enduring power of truth.
Author: Nadezhda Mandelstam
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Collins & Harvill Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some minor chipping on edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No markings noted. Binding: Intact.
Hope Abandoned is the powerful second memoir by Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of the celebrated Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who perished in Stalin's labour camps. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward, this unflinching account chronicles the brutal realities of life under Soviet totalitarianism, presenting a raw and intimate portrait of intellectual survival amid state terror. Where her first memoir, Hope Against Hope, focused tightly on her husband's fate, this volume widens its lens to cast a devastating judgement on an entire generation of Russian intelligentsia who capitulated to or colluded with the Soviet regime. Written with scorching moral clarity and literary precision, it stands as one of the great documents of twentieth-century witness literature — an indictment of tyranny and a testament to the enduring power of truth.