Children of Siberia

Children of Siberia
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Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9955037709
ISBN-13 : 9789955037705
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

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Gina from Siberia

Gina from Siberia
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1947895001
ISBN-13 : 9781947895003
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Gina from Siberia by : Jane Bernstein

This heartwarming story told from Gina's (a terrier) perspective details her family's journey from Cold War Siberia into the USA.

The Endless Steppe

The Endless Steppe
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780064405775
ISBN-13 : 006440577X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Endless Steppe by : Esther Hautzig

Exiled to Siberia In June 1942, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists -- enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia. For five years, Ester and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields and working in the mines, struggling for enough food and clothing to stay alive. Only the strength of family sustains them and gives them hope for the future.

Exiled to Siberia

Exiled to Siberia
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Publisher : Crescent Lake Publishing
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015063669165
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Exiled to Siberia by : Klaus Hergt

September 1, 1939, promised to be another beautiful late summer day. Hank slowly walked to his aunt's house for one of her treats anxiously awaiting her call to come in. Already the smell of boiling chocolate wafted through the open kitchen window. "I hope she puts lemon sauce on it," he thought.

Stolen Childhood

Stolen Childhood
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9780595168637
ISBN-13 : 0595168639
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Stolen Childhood by : Lucjan Krolikowski

Stolen Childhood is the story of what happened to some 380,000 Polish children who, with their families, were rounded up by Stalin's orders in 1939 and deported into Asiatic Russia. Lucjan Krolikowski, a young seminarian also deported there, shared and witnessed the suffering of his fellow Poles. Freed by an "amnesty," he joined the Polish Army, and when it moved to the Middle East, Lucjan resumed his theology studies, pronounced his vows, and became a chaplain to a Polish military hospital in Egypt. Reassigned to refugee camps in East Africa, Fr. Lucjan and the wandering Polish children met again in 1947 — a meeting that began a long and loving relationship. In 1949 when the Warsaw Communists claimed guardianship of the Polish orphans in Africa and demanded their repatriation, Fr. Lucjan was forced into a world of international intrigue. Called by the Communists "a kidnapper on an international scale," to his orphans, he was the good shepherd who led them to Canada, where he helped his charges overcome the theft of their childhood and become secure adults in a new world. Stolen Childhood is the book of memories he wrote for them, and a cautionary history for people of good will.

Narrating the Future in Siberia

Narrating the Future in Siberia
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780857457660
ISBN-13 : 0857457667
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Narrating the Future in Siberia by : Olga Ulturgasheva

The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. The first full-length ethnographic study among the adolescence of Siberian indigenous peoples, it presents the young people's narratives about their own future and shows how they form constructs of time, space, agency and personhood through the process of growing up and experiencing their social world. The study brings a new perspective to the anthropology of childhood and uncovers a quite unexpected dynamic in narrating and foreshadowing the future while relating it to cultural patterns of prediction and fulfillment in nomadic cosmology. Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork for a decade in Siberia on childhood, youth, religion, reindeer herding and hunting and coedited Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books 2012).

Return from Siberia

Return from Siberia
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781510763401
ISBN-13 : 1510763406
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Return from Siberia by : John Shallman

In the lead-up to the Bolshevik Revolution, one young revolutionary is condemned to exile in Siberia; a hundred years later, his ancestors discover his story and learn just how much history has repeated itself. In the midst of running a long-shot political campaign, Democratic political consultant John Simon discovers a 100-year-old manuscript written by his grandfather Joseph—a brilliant young revolutionary whose exile to Siberia by the last czar of Russia is just the beginning of an extraordinary tale of survival, romance, and revolution. Return From Siberia chronicles not only the Simon family's relationship to each other and the past, but also the remarkable story of a young man who sacrificed everything for his political ideals. As Joseph's manuscript is translated, chapter-by-chapter, the Simon family is pulled deep into their ancestor’s story— in particular, the bitter rivalry between two brothers, whose competing visions of the American Dream are played out on the campaign trail and in their lives. Return from Siberia is a timely appraisal of modern politics and society juxtaposed with an inside look into the machinations of a young political mind 100 years ago. The true story documents an extraordinary time of political upheaval in Russia and Europe just prior to World War I while also drawing parallels to current day American politics and the current philosophical and ideological debates about immigration, Democratic Socialism, and Capitalism. Beyond the deep social, political, and philosophical themes, there is romance, adventure, betrayal, suspense, and the struggles of families today and in yesteryear. Return from Siberia illustrates how one modern family's connection to the past helps them resolve their future.

Lost in the Taiga

Lost in the Taiga
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Publisher : Doubleday Books
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X002528396
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Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Lost in the Taiga by : Vasiliĭ Peskov

The sole surviving family member, the daughter Agafia, lives by herself in the Lykov family cabin to this day.

The House of the Dead

The House of the Dead
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 513
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ISBN-10 : 9780307958914
ISBN-13 : 0307958914
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The House of the Dead by : Daniel Beer

Winner of the Cundill History Prize The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, The House of the Dead is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia’s decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.

Escape Via Siberia

Escape Via Siberia
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0841914540
ISBN-13 : 9780841914544
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Escape Via Siberia by : Dorit Bader Whiteman

Through the dramatic true story of one boy-Eliott ""Lonek"" Jaroslawicz-Dorit Bader Whiteman coveys the stories of the dramatic escape of thousands of Polish Jews from the encroaching Nazi menace. Whiteman draws on hours of interviews with Jaroslawicz, as well as extensive archival and other research, to narrate this saga of the only Kindertransport to leave from Russia.