Former People The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy

Name: Former People The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
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ISBN: 9781250037794

ISBN-10: 1250037794

ISBN-13: 9781250037794

Edition: 2013

Authors: Douglas Smith

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Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heartbreaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. It is the story of how a centuries-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, and its promotion of the arts and culture, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia. Chronicling the fate of two great aristocratic families-the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns-it reveals how even in the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on. Told with sensitivity and nuance by acclaimed historian Douglas…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 9/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.11" wide x 8.87" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 0.990



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Principal Figures


Family Trees


Maps


Prologue



Before the Deluge



Russia, 1900



The Sheremetevs



The Golitsyns



The Last Dance



1917



The Fall of the Romanovs



A Country of Mutinous Slaves



The Bolshevik Coup



Civil War



Expropriating the Expropriators



The Corner House



Spa Town Hell



Bogoroditsk



Dr. Golitsyn



Exodus



NEP



School of Life



Noble Remains



The Fox-trot Affair



Virtue in Rags



Stalin's Russia



The Great Break



The Death of Parnassus



Outcasts



The Mouse, the Kerosene, and the Match



Anna's Fortune



Happy Times



Poisonous Snakes and the Avenging Sword: Operation Former People



The Great Terror



War: The End


Epilogue


Note on Sources


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index