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The Deserted House
Lydia Chukovskaia
The Deserted House The Deserted House

 

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Title
The Deserted House
Subitle
Lydia Chukovskaya. The Deserted House. Tr. by Aline B. Werth. New York: Dutton, 1967.
Author
Lydia Chukovskaia
Realm
Russian
Illustrations
No
Language
Russian

 

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The Deserted House
Preface 1971
Hedrick Smith. Soviet Writer Fights Odessa Librarian's Conviction
Hedrick Smith

MOSCOW, Oct. 10 – A noted writer has accused an Odessa court of using the writings of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam, two of the most famous Russian poets of the 20th century, to convict a 35-year-old Odessa librarian on charges of having distributed anti-Soviet literature...

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Reviews 14
The Deserted House
Victor Terras
Review 1980
Victor Terras. Review of The Deserted House (1978) by Lydia Chukovskaia
Victor Terras

Lydia Chukovskaia’s short novel, written in 1939-40 and first published in 1966, appears here in a reprint of Aline B. Werth’s excellent 1967 translation, which was based, unfortunately, on the Paris book version (Opustelyi dom)...

The Deserted House
Svetlana Allilueva
Review 1967
Gillian Freeman. Tyrannies
Svetlana Allilueva

We spend much of our limited time choosing in the mistaken belief that we have a choice. Not only do we worry whether or not we are making the right decisions now, but also whether we made the right ones in the past. Caught up in external events, we act within a psychologically determined framework...

The Deserted House
Saul Maloff
Review 1967
Saul Maloff. Can Such Things Have Been?
Saul Maloff
Journey into the Whirlwind
Review 1967
Victim of a Stalin Purge

The Stalin purges, not only of the terrible years of 1937-39 but also of those of 1949-52, have been the subject of an ever-growing literature. Some, like General Gorbatov’s reminiscences and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day...

The Deserted House
Review 1967
Merle Fainsod. One To Be Burned

Addressing a meeting of the literary artistic intelligentsia in Moscow on March 8, 1963, Nikita Khrushchev exclaimed, “They say that the magazines and publishing houses are flooded with manuscripts about the life of persons in exile...

Journey into the Whirlwind
Review 1968
Helen Muchnic. Nightmares

These books are concerned with the Stalinist purges. In Journey into the Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg sets down the chronicle of her own imprisonment and exile; in The Deserted House Lydia Chukovskaya writes a short novel about what she saw in 1937...

The Deserted House
David Gallagher
Review 1967
David Gallagher. Friends and Enemies
David Gallagher

In our lengthy review of the Russian original of The Deserted House (TLS, February 16, 1967) we hoped “that this remarkable and superbly written little book will soon be published in English[...

The Deserted House
Review 1968
Thompson Bradley. Review of The Deserted House (1967) by Lydia Chukovskaia
The Deserted House
Aline Werth
Review 1967
David Gallagher. Somewhere in Leningrad
Aline Werth

The Deserted House is in some ways a more fascinating description of Stalin’s purges even than Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, because the action takes place not in some safely distant camp but in Leningrad...

The Deserted House
Review 1968
Robert Granat. The Great God Ninel
The Deserted House
Montague Haltrecht
Review 1967
Montague Haltrecht. A Nightmare of the Purges
Montague Haltrecht

The Deserted House is history written from the point of view little people. A doctor’s widow is left after the Russian Revolution with a small son to support. She finds work as typist in a publishing firm, her son grows up a fervently loyal Communist...

Sofia Petrovna
Evgeny Evtushenko
Review 1967
Harrison E. Salisbury. Loyalty was the Error
Evgeny Evtushenko

On Dec. 1, 1934, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg was 27 years old, the mother of two young children, wife of a local Communist party official in the Volga River city of Kazan, a teacher, a worker on the local newspaper...

Journey into the Whirlwind
George Haupt
Review 1969
George Haupt. Review of The Deserted House (1967) by Lydia Chukovskaia and Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Ginzburg
George Haupt

After the publication of Solzhenitsyn’s now famous One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Soviet publishers have received thousands of manuscripts of memoirs on deportation, novels, accounts...

Journey into the Whirlwind
Herman Ermolaev
Review 1969
Herman Ermolaev. Review of The Deserted House (1967) by Lydia Chukovskaia
Herman Ermolaev

This povest' deals with one of the blackest periods in Soviet history, the mid-1930’s. It belongs to the same type of literature as the Requiem by Anna Axmatova, Journey Into the Whirlwind by Evgenija Ginzburg...

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