Interview with Maxim Shrayer on Leaving Russia: A Jewish story, by Maxim Shrayer
A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. This is a searing account of the KGB’s persecution of refuseniks, a...
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ndltd-BOSTON-oai-dlib.bc.edu-bc-ir_1069102019-05-10T07:33:58Z Interview with Maxim Shrayer on Leaving Russia: A Jewish story, by Maxim Shrayer Shrayer, Maxim, 1967- MovingImage interview English 16 min., 3 sec. electronic video/mp4 A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. This is a searing account of the KGB’s persecution of refuseniks, a poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances are set against a rich backdrop of politics and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. Title supplied by cataloger. Leaving Russia--9780815610243--0815610246--0815652437--9780815652434--2013034301 https://www.youtube.com/embed/OVYFrM7hwxQ This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:106910 |
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A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. This is a searing account of the KGB’s persecution of refuseniks, a poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances are set against a rich backdrop of politics and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. === Title supplied by cataloger. |
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