My Russia, disguised as the USSR. Returning to my homeland
My Russia, disguised as the USSR. Returning to my homeland
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In the fall of 1956, Zinaida Alekseyevna Shakhovskaya (1906–2001), a member of the younger generation of the first wave of Russian emigration and already a well-known writer in France, traveled to the USSR with her husband, the Belgian diplomat of Russian descent, Svyatoslav Malevsky-Malevich.
Having left her homeland as a teenager, she returned for six months to a completely different country. A talented journalist, Shakhovskaya, in a series of fictionalized travel essays, shares her impressions of Soviet Russia during the Thaw, its people, everyday life, politics, culture, and art, including the situation of the Church, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, and the controversy surrounding Vladimir Dudintsev's novel Not by Bread Alone.
Written in 1958 in French and translated into many European languages, this book, like the author's other French-language novels and historical works, is unfamiliar to modern Russian readers. This is the first time these memoirs have been published in Russian.
Having left her homeland as a teenager, she returned for six months to a completely different country. A talented journalist, Shakhovskaya, in a series of fictionalized travel essays, shares her impressions of Soviet Russia during the Thaw, its people, everyday life, politics, culture, and art, including the situation of the Church, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, and the controversy surrounding Vladimir Dudintsev's novel Not by Bread Alone.
Written in 1958 in French and translated into many European languages, this book, like the author's other French-language novels and historical works, is unfamiliar to modern Russian readers. This is the first time these memoirs have been published in Russian.
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