Book 1967

The Deserted House RU

The Deserted House

Lydia Chukovskaia

The Deserted House The Deserted House

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Realm: Russian
Author: Lydia Chukovskaia
Title: The Deserted House
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Dutton
Date of Publication: 1967
Material Type: Book
Language: English
Translator: Aline B. Werth

Reviews 14

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)...

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...

Review 1967

Saul Maloff. Can Such Things Have Been?: Saul Maloff

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...

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...

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Article 1971

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...

Article 1967

A Classic of the Purge: Alexander Werth