EAN: 9780224084918

YOUNG HEROES OF THE SOVIET UNION - ALEX HALBERS...

'Engrossing' Daniel Beer  Guardian'A beautiful book... incisive  radiant' Olivia
Laing'Illuminating  dramatic... majestic writing' Spectator'Enthralling... a triumph' Andrew
SolomonAlex Halberstadt returns to Russia  the troubled  enigmatic land of his birth  where
decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family  in this
haunting work of memoir and history.In Ukraine  Halberstadt tracks down his paternal
grandfather - most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania 
his Jewish mother's home  to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious
anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. And he returns to his birthplace  Moscow 
where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers' wives  his mother
consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital  and his father made a dangerous living by
selling black-market American records. Halberstadt also explores his own story: that of an
immigrant growing up in New York  another in a line of sons separated from their fathers by the
tides of politics and history.Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is a moving investigation into
the fragile boundary between history and biography. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his
family's formative traumas  he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear  suffering 
and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations  like people  possess formative
traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens' lives.

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