Smith Douglas: Bivši ljudi

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Author: Smith Douglas

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Author: Smith Douglas
Publisher: Laguna
Availability: Available
Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 80264

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Bivši ljudi

Smith Douglas

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Douglas Smith: Former People

Epic in scope, precise in detail and touching in its depiction of the depth of human drama, the book brings us the history of the aristocracy caught in the vortex of the Bolshevik revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Filled with gruesome stories of looted palaces and burnt estates, desperate night escapes from bandits disguised as peasants and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, persecution and execution, this is the story of how the centuries-old elite, known for their dazzling wealth, serving the emperor and the empire and promoting art and culture, were disinherited and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia.

That is also a story of survival and adaptation, of how many members of the imperial ruling class—the so-called former people and class enemies—overcame the psychological wounds of the loss of their world and decades of repression as they struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile order of the Soviet Union. As a chronicle of the fate of two great aristocratic families - the Sheremetyevs and the Golitsyns - it reveals how, even in the darkest depths of terror, everyday life went on.

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