As I Was Burying Comrade Stalin: My Life Becoming a Jewish Dissident
McFarland
ISBN13:
9781476680200
$39.01
Arkady Polishchuk came of age in Stalin's Russia, in the turbulent times before, during and after World War II. His love for the Soviet dictator persisted for years until Polishchuk, a 19-year-old Jew, was not admitted to the university. In 1952, he learned about the preparations for mass deportation of Jews to Siberia. He celebrated Stalin's death in 1953--but state oppression dominated his life as before. As a young reporter for the Kostroma regional newspaper, he met with destitute plowmen, teenage milkmaids and former prisoners turned woodcutters, and wrote about them. When his satirical flair outraged a Communist Party secretary, the KGB initiated a political case against him and he fled to avoid persecution. His memoir describes his painstaking journey toward mental and spiritual liberation.
- | Author: Arkady Polishchuk
- | Publisher: McFarland
- | Publication Date: April 27, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 226 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1476680205
- | ISBN-13: 9781476680200
- Author:
- Arkady Polishchuk
- Publisher:
- McFarland
- Publication Date:
- April 27, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 226 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1476680205
- ISBN-13:
- 9781476680200