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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Smith, Douglas, 1962-     Subjects     Sheremetev family -- History -- 20th century.     Goli︠t︡syn family -- History -- 20th century.     Aristocracy (Social class) -- Soviet Union.     Aristocracy (Social class) -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smith, Douglas, 1962-       by title:      Former people : the ...         MARC Display

Former people : the final days of the Russian aristocracy / Douglas Smith. by Smith, Douglas, 1962- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. Subjects Sheremetev family -- History -- 20th century.   Goli︠t︡syn family -- History -- 20th century.   Aristocracy (Social class) -- Soviet Union.   Aristocracy (Social class) -- Russia -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780374157616 (alkaline paper) : 0374157618 (alkaline paper) Description:  xvii, 464 p. : ill., geneal. tables, maps ; 24 cm Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Before the deluge. Russia, 1900 ; The Sheremetevs ; The Golitsyns ; The last dance -- 1917. The fall of the Romanovs ; A country of mutinous slaves ; The bolshevik coup -- Civil war. Expropriating the expropriators ; The corner house ; Spa town hall ; Bogoroditsk ; Doctor Golitsyn ; Exodus -- NEP. School of life ; Noble remains ; The foxtrot affair ; Virtue in rags -- Stalin's Russia. The great break ; The death of Parnassus ; Outcasts ; The mouse, the kerosene, and the match ; Anna's fortune ; Happy times ; Poisonous snakes and the avenging sword: operation "former people" ; The great terror ; War: the end. Requests:  0 Summary:  Examines the fate of two Russian aristocratic families in a detailed account of the Bolshevik Revolution's effect on the upper class, discussing the relentless lootings, harrowing escapes, humbling exile and imprisonment, and summary executions that tookplace during this violent time of transition.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.52094 Sm Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.52094 Sm Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.52094 Sm Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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