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by: Nadezhda A. Joffe
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 947.084092
EAN: 9780929087702
ISBN: 0929087704
Label: Labor Publications
Manufacturer: Labor Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 245
Publication Date: June 01, 1994
Publisher: Labor Publications
Sales Rank: 1837202
Studio: Labor Publications
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This is the only memoir to be written in the post-Stalin Soviet Union by a member of the Left Opposition that had been formed under the leadership of Leon Trotsky in 1923. Nadezhda Joffe is the daughter of Adolf Abramovich Joffe, the Bolshevik leader and Left Oppositionist who committed suicide in 1927 to protest the expulsion of Trotsky from the Bolshevik Party. She gives a nightmarish and moving account of her fate and that of countless others at the hands of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Nadezhda Joffe survived and her memoir provides us with the testimony of one who experienced, with a high degree of political consciousness, the most tragic events of this century. 'Mrs. Joffe writes of the pain and difficulty of everyday life in the Kolyma camps, but the book also contains her memories of Trotsky, which offer interesting personal anecdotes about a man known best for his passion for communism and dedication to the Red Army.--The Jewish News (Detroit) ;Rarely does one come across a book that makes one sad enough to cry and yet able in the end to celebrate the indestructibility of the human spirit. This is such a book.'--Theodore Draper, New Republic;
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Rating: - To anyone who wants to feel inspired.
Anyone who wants to feel proud of being human must read this account by a noble and corageous woman, the worthy child of a noble and corageous father.
Rating: - I could not put the book down once I opened it.
It was incedible to live through, in impeccable detail, the life of one who survived the camps of Joseph Stalin. Despite the murder of her husband and the seperation from her children because she was a supporter of Trotsky she maintained her dignity and her faith in humanity. Many have suffered less and surrendered more of their soul to their persecutors. Her recollections of the events are told as if they happened last week. If there is to be evidence that there is hope for human progress and a ... Read More
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