Former people
Subtitle: the final days of the Russian aristocracy
By: Douglas Smith
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374157616
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the deluge. Russia, 1900 ; The Sheremetevs ; The Golitsyns ; The last dance; title: 1917. The fall of the Romanovs ; A country of mutinous slaves ; The bolshevik coup; title: Civil war. Expropriating the expropriators ; The corner house ; Spa town hall ; Bogoroditsk ; Doctor Golitsyn ; Exodus; title: NEP. School of life ; Noble remains ; The foxtrot affair ; Virtue in rags; title: 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.