Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2009

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Guardian First Book Award (2008)

A transcendent history/memoir of one family's always passionate, sometimes tragic connection to Russia.
Owen Matthews, "Newsweek"'s bureau chief in Moscow, pieces together the tangled threads of his family's past and present to create an indelible portrait of Russia and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802717603
ISBN-10: 0802717608
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 140 x 212 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Walker & Company

Caracteristici

The facts of Russia and the Cold War are made personal and relevant in this deeply personal account - appealing to a broad market of anyone interested in life behind the Iron Curtain.

Stalin's Children has been longlisted for the 2009 Orwell Prize for political writing.

Notă biografică

Owen Matthews was born in London and spent part of his childhood in America. He studied Modern History at Oxford University before beginning his career as a journalist in Bosnia. In 1995 he accepted a job at The Moscow Times, a daily English-language newspaper. He also freelanced for a number of publications including The Times, the Spectator and the Independent. In 1997, he became a correspondent at Newsweek magazine in Moscow where he covered the second Chechen war, as well as politics and society. Owen was also one of the first journalists to witness the start of the US bombing in the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan, 2001, and went on to cover the invasion of Iraq, 2003. He is also the author of Glorious Misadventures, An Impeccable Spy and Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia's War Against Ukraine.

Recenzii

'A Russian Wild Swans ... Some of the stories will stay with me forever'
'Heartbreaking, romantic and utterly compelling ... An astonishing personal history of love, death and betrayal'
'Gripping ... This fascinating book is not a footnote to Soviet history: it is Soviet history, one of the millions of private tales of evil and astonishing endurance that make up the awful whole'
'Epic ... extraordinary ... Matthews ... seems to contain an essence of a Russia that preceded the turmoils and savage inflictions that he so richly describes in his book'

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An unprecedented insight into the grim brutality of the Russian revolution and the terror of the Cold War

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Guardian First Book Award Nominee, 2008

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