The Memoirs Of Ivanov-Razumnik
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds - hole in centre of jacket spine. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: nil. Binding condition: Binding intact.
A landmark work in twentieth-century Russian memoir literature, The Memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik chronicles the turbulent life of Razumnik Vasilyevich Ivanov-Razumnik, one of Russia's most significant literary critics and socialist thinkers. Translated from the Russian and annotated by P. S. Squire, with a short introduction by G. Jankovsky, the work presents a harrowing first-hand account of survival through the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinist terror, and the horrors of the Soviet prison camp system. With unflinching candor, Ivanov-Razumnik details his repeated arrests, interrogations, and periods of exile, offering an invaluable eyewitness perspective on the mechanisms of Soviet repression. The narrative stands as a powerful testament to intellectual resilience in the face of totalitarian brutality, and remains an essential primary source for scholars of Russian history and Soviet-era literature.
Author: Ivanov-Razumnik
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Oxford University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds - hole in centre of jacket spine. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: nil. Binding condition: Binding intact.
A landmark work in twentieth-century Russian memoir literature, The Memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik chronicles the turbulent life of Razumnik Vasilyevich Ivanov-Razumnik, one of Russia's most significant literary critics and socialist thinkers. Translated from the Russian and annotated by P. S. Squire, with a short introduction by G. Jankovsky, the work presents a harrowing first-hand account of survival through the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinist terror, and the horrors of the Soviet prison camp system. With unflinching candor, Ivanov-Razumnik details his repeated arrests, interrogations, and periods of exile, offering an invaluable eyewitness perspective on the mechanisms of Soviet repression. The narrative stands as a powerful testament to intellectual resilience in the face of totalitarian brutality, and remains an essential primary source for scholars of Russian history and Soviet-era literature.