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A ransomed dissident : a life in art under the Soviets
- Title
- A ransomed dissident : a life in art under the Soviets / by Igor Golomstock ; translated by Sara Jolly & Boris Dralyuk.
- Author
- Golomshtok, Igor
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- x, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners - hardened criminals - and returned to Moscow an almost feral adolescent, fluent in obscene prison jargon but intellectually ignorant. Despite this dubious start he became a leading art historian and co-author (with his close friend Andrey Sinyavsky) of the first, deeply controversial, monograph on Picasso published in the Soviet Union. Here, Golomstock offers the reader a rare insight into what life was like as a quietly subversive art historian in the post-Stalin era.
- Uniform Title
- Memuary pessimista. English
- Alternative Title
- Memuary pessimista.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Russian.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7058
- ISBN
- 1788312953
- 9781788312950
- OCLC
- 1024165272
- Author
- Golomshtok, Igor, author.
- Title
- A ransomed dissident : a life in art under the Soviets / by Igor Golomstock ; translated by Sara Jolly & Boris Dralyuk.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the Russian.
- Chronological Term
- 1917-1970
- Added Author
- Jolly, Sara, translator.Dralyuk, Boris, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7058