Description
| Product ID: | 9780330520294 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Former People |
| Subtitle: | The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy |
| Authors: | Author: Douglas Smith |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, European history, History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups and movements, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) , c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The last great untold story of the Russian Revolution <p><b>Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin’s Russia. <br></b><br>Historian Douglas Smith's<i> Former People</i> is a book filled with chilling tales of looted palaces, burning estates, of desperate flights from marauding thugs and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution. It is the story of how a centuries’-old elite famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia.<br><br> Drawing on the private archives of two great families – the Sheremetovs and the Golitsyns –<i> Former People</i> is also a story of survival, of how many of the tsarist ruling class, so-called 'former people' and 'class enemies,' abandoned, displaced, and repressed, overcame the loss of their world and struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile world of the Soviet Union. It reveals how even at the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on – men and women fell in love, children were born and educated, friends gathered, simple pleasures were cherished. Ultimately, <i>Former People</i> is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-05-09 |
