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Hope against hope;, a memoir, [by] Nadezhda Mandelstam. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward, with an introd. by Clarence Brown

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Hope against hope;

98196

[by] Nadezhda Mandelstam. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward, with an introd. by Clarence Brown

a memoir

A May night -- Confiscation -- Morning thoughts -- The second round -- Shopping baskets -- Integral moves -- Public opinion -- Interview -- Theory and practice -- Leaving for exile -- On the other side -- The irrational -- The namesake -- A piece of chocolate -- The leap -- Chrdyn -- Hallucinations -- Profession and sickness -- Inside -- Christophorovich -- Who is to blame? -- The adjutant -- On the nature of the miracle -- Journey to Voronezh -- Thou shalt not kill -- The woman of th Russian Revolution -- Transmission belts -- Voronezh -- Doctors and illness -- The disappointed landlord -- Money -- The origins of the miracle -- The Antipodes -- Two voices -- The path ot destruction -- Capitulation -- The change of values -- Work -- Moving lips -- Book and notebook -- Cycle -- The last winter in Voronezh -- The ode -- Golden rules -- Hope -- One extra day -- The Bessarabian Carriage -- The illusion -- The reader of one book -- Tikhonov -- The bookcase -- Our literature -- Italy -- The social structure -- Ne Treba -- The earth and its concerns -- Archive and voice -- Old and new -- A convicted person -- Chance -- The electrician -- In the country -- Ordeal by fear -- Cow or poetry reading -- The old friend -- Tania the non-party Bolshevik -- Poetry lovers -- Eclipse -- A scene from life -- The suicide -- Rebirth -- The last Idyll -- the textile workers -- The Shklovskis -- Maryina Roshcha -- The accomplice -- The young lady of Samatikha -- The first of May -- Gugovna -- The trap -- The window on the Sophia Embankment -- The date of death -- One final account