num_pages: 689
description: In the second volume of her autobiography, this book describes the life of Nadezhda and her husband Osip Mandelstam, providing an interpretive background for his poetry. The book also describes some distinguished contemporaries, including Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and Nikolai Bukharin.
language: English
title: Hope Abandoned
titlecomplete: Hope Abandoned
genres: Soviet Union, History, Russia, Russian Literature, Biography, Literature, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 101
publisher: Collins : Harvill Press