Nadezhda Mandelstam

Hope Against Hope

Memoir of Nadezhda Mandelstam's marriage to poet Osip Mandelstam and Stalinist persecution

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Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezhda Mandelstam

Mandelstam's Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned are among the greatest memoirs of life under Stalinism, preserving both her own testimony and the poetry of her husband Osip through decades of persecution. They are monuments of witness literature.

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