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
Opustelyi dom
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
SA
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
SM
Review 1967
Saul Maloff. Can Such Things Have Been?
Saul Maloff
Krutoi marshrut
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...
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A Classic of the Purge
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