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AnneCecilie
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My favorite read from #June #6thbookof2021, and another of my absolute favorites this year.
#12Booksof2021

Andrew65 This looks good. 3y
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AnneCecilie
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Pickpick

This book is a most read and I‘m just sad that it has been standing on my selves for 10 yrs.

Figes focuses on how Stalin‘s politics and paranoia affected the people. To be labeled a Cossack or an “Enemy of the State” didn‘t just send you away to Gulag for 10-25 yrs, it also destroyed your family. Your spouse would be sentenced too, for not having turned you in, your children would be sent to orphanages, if they were young enough they were given

AnneCecilie new names. The children would be separated. Having a destroyed biography meant that you faced difficulties at school, acceptance to university and job opportunities. I guess I never knew the extension of the destruction of the family. And that is what I will remember after reading this book. That, and the will people had to keep their family together. 3y
AnneCecilie This was also my #BookSpin in June or part 3 of 7 was @TheAromaofBooks 3y
TheAromaofBooks Great review!! 3y
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AnneCecilie
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This is a picture of a collective apartment. After Moscow introduced a densification policy, the apartment ended up housing 14 people.

The collective apartments should be a reflection of the Soviet society by destroying the private room and property. The private life should be subject to surveillance and control.

Neighbors were paying close attention to the other residents and would pay attention to guests and be a “witness” towards neighbors

Tamra I would go batty! 3y
AnneCecilie @Tamra Me too. But I know that there were housing shortages in my city as well during the 30s and that people lived 10-15 in a room. What really gets at me is that people where listening in, turning in their neighbors and that you had to guard everything you said (even in your own home). 3y
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Tamra @AnneCecilie can‘t imagine. 3y
Texreader @AnneCecilie @tamra in Stalin‘s daughter‘s memoirs she described the crammed living conditions (which weren‘t required of government officials who had spacious living quarters) into the 1960s when she defected. But worse was the reporting on each other, from which she never felt free until she defected. 3y
AnneCecilie @Texreader @Tamra That‘s what I‘m thinking as well. Always having to watch what you say, does something to you. 3y
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AnneCecilie
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The 1st metro line opened in 1935. It was the stated that when the worker takes the metro, he shall see himself in a castle. The metros were built like castles with chandeliers, stained glass panels and marble.

Mayakovsky could measure up to the beauty of a church.

The metros were in stark contrast with the living conditions, but it should strengthen the belief in the Soviet goal and values.

#foodandlit #Russia

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AnneCecilie
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Aleksandr and Serafima Ozemblovskij had 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. Aleksandr gave everything to the kolkhoze except one cow. He was arrested in 1930. A couple of days later they came for the rest of the family. They were sent 3000 km to a colony in the Komi region in the north. They decided to escape, since the youngest boy was sick they decided that Serafima should escape with the girls. They went back to Belarus to Serafima‘s parents. (⬇️)

AnneCecilie Serafima left one of the girls with her parents and left the other with an old couple in an other city. Then Serafima went back to Komi only to find out that her husband is no longer there, he has been arrested again. She is arrested again, and escapes back to her daughters, and settles down in a house the family buys them. In 1937, they are joined by the sons. 2 yrs after that, they are United with Aleksandr. 3y
AnneCecilie This is just one of many families in this book that leaves an impression #foodandlit #Russia @Texreader @Butterfinger (edited) 3y
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coffees
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I've decided on this being my first novel for #awesomeaugust, it's a book I read almost two years ago?? It's kind of fun to see what I've written in the margins 😆😆 #nonfiction #stalin #russianhistory #sovietunion

@andrew65

Andrew65 Looks interesting. 4y
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RamsFan1963
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nosferatu
Metropol | Eugen Ruge
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Pickpick

I had hoped for a continuation of Ruge‘s sprawling and genuinely funny "In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts," but this was a much more bleak and harrowing experience.

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Balibee146
Good People | Nir Baram
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#gratefulreads today asks for a #favoriteauthor I hope you didn't seriously expect just one @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620 😂😂😘
Here's a few.... Kate Atkinson, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and Iain (M) Banks. Got a bit sad making this collage as Pratchett and Banks both died far too young 😢

Balibee146 This final interview with Banks is a great read... Especially the final section https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview 5y
OriginalCyn620 🙌🏻📚😊 5y
GingerAntics Right? There is just no way to pick just one!!! 5y
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arlenefinnigan
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#Foundations #LilithJuly
Wonder how many of you will stack this.....
@KarenUK @Cinfhen

Balibee146 Lol.... I did skim the book blurb here.... That's a hard pass from me.... 🙋🙆 5y
KarenUK 😂😂😂 5y
Cinfhen Ha!! #HardPass even if it was a freebie #NoThanks 5y
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