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Hope Against Hope Introduction by Maria Stepanova (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of life with her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin’s Soviet Union and one of the most moving testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written. In 1933, Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) wrote a satiric poem ab...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein highlighted the memoir as a heroic account of spirit and survival during the Stalin era, saying he loved the book.

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The first is a book called Hope Against Hope which is a memoir by Nadezhda Mandelstam ... I love that book, Hope Against Hope.

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Ezra Klein highlighted the memoir as a heroic account of spirit and survival during the Stalin era, saying he loved the book.

"

The first is a book called Hope Against Hope which is a memoir by Nadezhda Mandelstam ... I love that book, Hope Against Hope.

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