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Stalin's children : three generations of love, war and survival
Matthews, Owen
2008
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-291) and index. One day in 1937, a car pulled up to a house in Ukraine. Boris Bibikov--Owen Matthews's grandfather--kissed his wife and daughters goo...
Mother Russia
Rubens, Bernice
1992
Anna Larionova is the daughter of a count; Sasha Volynin, the son of a peasant. Theirs is a love that flowers at the turn of the century, that endures for most of its span and survives the horrors of ...
The dogs and the wolves
Némirovsky, Irène (1903-1942)
2009
A wonderful, panoramic novel and an achingly poignant love story that goes back to Irene Némirovsky's roots, sweeping the reader from the Jewish quarter of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the ...
Mid-Georgian Britain, 1740-69
Riding, Jacqueline; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
2010
Includes index. Introduction: London and life -- Love and sex, marriage and family -- Home and neighbourhood -- Work -- Food and drink -- Fashion -- Transport -- Relaxation and entertainment -- Char...
Moscow diary
Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940); Smith, Gary (1954-)
1986
Translation of: Moskauer Tagebuch. Includes bibliographical references and index. The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory ...