What You Did Not Tell

A Russian Past and the Journey Home

Mark Mazower

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English

Penguin
16 July 2018

Biography; Memoirs; European history; Social & cultural history; Jewish studies

A family memoir, encompassing some of the most fascinating aspects of twentieth century European history, from the acclaimed author of Dark Continent.

Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British father was the lucky one, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants who settled in London after escaping the civil war and revolution. Max, the grandfather, had started out as a socialist and manned the barricades against tsarist troops, but never spoke of it. His wife, Frouma, came from a family ravaged by the Great Terror yet somehow making their way in Soviet society.

In the centenary of the Russian Revolution, What You Did Not Tell recounts a brand of socialism erased from memory - humanistic, impassioned, and broad-ranging in its sympathies. But it also explores the unexpected happiness that may await history's losers, the power of friendship, and the love of place that allowed Max and Frouma's son to call England home.

By: Mark Mazower
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 292g
ISBN: 9780141986845
ISBN 10: 0141986840
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 16 July 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Mazower is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, The Balkans, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and Salonika: City of Ghosts, which won both the Runciman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. He has taught at the University of Sussex, Princeton University and Birkbeck College, University of London. He is now Professor of History at Columbia University.

Reviews for What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir * Guardian * Brilliant ... a staggering story -- Robert Fox * Evening Standard, Book of the Year *