Mandelstam, Nadezhda

Hope Against Hope

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ISBN 13:: 9781860466359
author:: Mandelstam, Nadezhda
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Harvill Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 1999
Pages:: 74
Dimensions:: 22 x 14.4 x 3.2 cm
Genre:: Biography, Novelists, Poets & Playwrights, Poets,
Condition:: New
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Osip Mandelstam's courageous act of defiance against Josef Stalin in 1933 proved to be his undoing. His arrest and subsequent imprisonment had a devastating impact on his life, but his wife Nadezhda remained steadfast in her support. In "Hope Against Hope", Nadezhda Mandelstam recounts the last four years of her marriage to Osip, during which she fought tirelessly to secure his release and preserve his literary legacy. This harrowing account also sheds light on the persecution of Russia's literary intelligentsia under Stalin's regime. Through her courageous efforts, Nadezhda has ensured that her husband's memory remains preserved, but the truth about his mysterious death was not revealed until much later.

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