← Nadezhda MandelstamHope Against Hopeby Nadezhda MandelstamMemoir of Nadezhda Mandelstam's marriage to poet Osip Mandelstam and Stalinist persecutionFind on Amazon↗About the authorNadezhda MandelstamMandelstam'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.More by Nadezhda MandelstamHope AbandonedSecond volume of Mandelstam's memoirs continuing after her husband's death in the gulag→Mozart and Salieri→