Molotov's Magic Lantern. A Journey In Russian History

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: Faber And Faber
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 388 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalins henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky discovered his library and an old magic lantern. Molotov - ruthless apparatchik, participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge - was also an ardent bibliophile. Molotovs library and his magic lantern became the prisms through which Rachel Polonsky renewed her vision of Russia. She visited cities and landscapes associated with the books in the library - Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Akhmatova and many less well-known figures. Some were sent to the Gulag by the man who collected their books.

ISBN: 9780571237807