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 Author Name: Carlisle, Henry and Carlisle, Olga
Title: The Idealists
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: New York Thomas Dunne Books February 1999
ISBN Number: 0312200544 / 9780312200541
Seller ID: 16
Very good, with some shelf wear. ; Lenin, Vladimir Ilic; 1.00 x 9.75 x 6.50; 288 pages; The Revolution was a time in Russia when long-suppressed hopes suddenly seemed attainable, when these hopes were either to become realities or be crushed. The Idealists is the story of Marina Nevsky and her family. Born in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, Marina knows only the revolutionary milieu of her exiled parents. Her father, Vasily Nevsky, is the idealistic head of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, which for decades has fought for the betterment of the downtrodden. But when the time comes in 1917 to establish a democratic order, Nevsky returns to St. Petersburg only to find his moment of opportunity usurped by a small Marxist party, the Bolsheviks, who succeed in taking control of this starved, war-devastat ed country as it emerges form centuries of tyranny under the tsars. Vasily Nevsky and his family return to a home that will not have them, and an archrival, Lenin, set on destroying him. Marina will witness everything to which her father has dedicated his life vanish in the turmoil of the time. It is within this tumultuous landscape that she comes of age.
0312200544 Russia Fiction Revolution
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