New book on "velikaya epoha"

[Elena Gapova]

Dear all,

I know that SEELANG does not publish "ads", but there is absolutely no other
way for those who might benefit from this book to learn about it.

Olga Bembel-Dedok. Vospominaniya. Minsk, "Propilei", 2006.
This is the first book in the "Zhenskie avtobiographii" series, published
under the general heading "Velikaya epoha: zhenskoe svidetel'stvo". The
author (died in 1973) was the wife of one of the "creators" of the
socialist-realist canon in visual arts Andrey Bembel (he made the famous
bust of Nikokai Gastello in 1943 and, after 1945, numerous monuments in
Minsk, including the huge Victory monument) and an "unrealized" sculptor
herself. Her memoirs cover the 1920s childhood in Gomel (the emergence of
the Soviet school system), 1930s in Leningrad, in Academia hudozhests, and
WWII in Minsk, where she rescued a Jewish girl (but was not able to rescue
her mother) from the Mnisk getto, almost at the cost of her own life. The
book is an unbelievable mix of the personal and the political. It is here:
http://www.gender-ehu.org/?97_2
The introduction to the book (O (ne)vozmozhnosti zhenskoi avtobiografii) is
here: http://pigbig.livejournal.com/43491.html#cutid1

The book can be ordered from "East-West publications" (the number in the
database is 76 00 52 B, but it should also be "discernable" by title or
author).

e.g.

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