Hope Abandoned (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Nadezhda Mandelstam
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1919-1934
- Setting: The Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Osip Mandelstam, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography
- Subjects: Suffering, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Human rights, Courage, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Oppression, Cruelty, Biography, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Concentration camps, Persecution
Form and Content
Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of a leading Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam, spent most of her married life sharing the tragic fate of her husband. After years of ostracism, persecution, and enforced silence, Osip Mandelstam succumbed to inhumane treatment in a concentration camp in the Far Eastern Region of the Soviet Union, on December 27, 1938. Nadezhda Mandelstam herself feared for her safety, even her life, for many years after her husband’s death. After having been saved by sheer luck, as she was convinced, and after years of struggling for survival, she...
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