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In Bread of Exile, two opposing worlds are juxtaposed: a world of privilege and power that saw the end of imperial Russia and struggled to survive Communist persecution and military attack, and one of dispossession and exile.
Dimitri Obolensky's family belonged to the upper echelons of the Russian aristocracy. This collection of unpublished memoirs, diaries, and notebooks by six different family members spans more than one hundred years. Russia's turbulent history is made vividly real through intimate recollections of those who suffered the dramatic consequences of the Russian Revolution and lived the rest of their lives as émigrés.
Dimitri Obolensky was born in Petrograd in 1918. He was Professor of Russian and Balkan History at the University of Oxford, where he lives.
* "[A] sensitive picture of a Russia that has vanished long ago: a world for which, after what had transpired in the years that followed, even a foreigner can feel nostalgia." —Professor Richard Pipes
* "Another outstanding collection of childhood and other recollections of life before the revolution . . . Tales told by people who lived inside a golden bubble, made more beautiful, more enigmatic, by its disappearance." —Anne Applebaum The Sunday Telegraph
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David Ellerbe
reviewed Bread of exile on October 06, 2018
Bread of exile
In reading about the history of slavery, one tends to forget the efforts some slaves made to be free rather than waiting for the Civil War. However, Gary Collison's book about Shadrach Minkins is a good reminder of just how difficult it was for slaves to escape the plantation and make a life for themselves in the North or in Canada. Collision does a great deal of research to illustrate not only the life of Shadrach Minkins' but also the struggles of many other slaves who wanted a better life. I was especially interested in his portrayal of how the Fugitive Slave Act worked in Boston and how many residents decided to actively resist the law and aid in the escape even at the risk of prison for themselves. It illustrated to me how some laws will be ignored when they run counter to moral principles of citizens. I was somewhat disappointed, however, that so many of the events in Minkins' life were speculated about by the author rather than being derived from records. Understandably that was not the author's fault but more attributed to the secrecy surrounding his life in the North.
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