Ransomed Dissident
Igor Golomstock, Sara Jolly, Boris Dralyuk, Robert Chandler · 2019
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About the book
In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners - hardened criminals - and returned to Moscow an almost feral adolescent, fluent in obscene prison jargon but intellectually ignorant. Despite this dubious start he became a leading art historian and co-author (with his close friend Andrey Sinyavsky) of the first, deeply controversial, monograph on Picasso published in the Soviet Union. Here, Golomstock offers the reader a rare insight into what life was like as a quietly subversive art historian in the post-Stalin era.
Book details
- Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781788312950
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