{"product_id":"former-people-the-final-days-of-the-russian-aristocracy","title":"Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDouglas Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eEpic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, \u003ci\u003eFormer People\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin’s Russia. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates, of desperate flights in the night from marauding peasants and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution, it is the story of how a centuries’-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, and its promotion of the arts and culture, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia.\u003cbr\u003eYet \u003ci\u003eFormer People\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis also a story of survival and accommodation, of how many of the tsarist ruling class—so-called “former people” and “class enemies”—overcame the psychological wounds inflicted by the loss of their world and decades of repression as they struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile order of the Soviet Union. Chronicling the fate of two great aristocratic families—the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns—it reveals how even in the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on.\u003cbr\u003eTold with sensitivity and nuance by acclaimed historian Douglas Smith,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFormer People\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis the dramatic portrait of two of Russia’s most powerful aristocratic families, and a sweeping account of their homeland in violent transition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eSeptember 24, 2013 by Picador\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Very Good \/ Paperback \/ Douglas Smith","offer_id":51173717934378,"sku":"9781250037794","price":40.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/4039\/5562\/files\/17332326.jpg?v=1771792405","url":"https:\/\/evasusedbooks.co\/products\/former-people-the-final-days-of-the-russian-aristocracy","provider":"Eva's Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}