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NIGHT OF STONEDeath and Memory in Twentieth-Century RussiaBy CATHERINE MERRIDALEVikingPenguin GroupCopyright © 2000 Catherine Merridale. All rights reserved.ISBN: 0-670-89474-5Chapter One ANOTHER LIGHT"We are the people without tears," Anna Akhmatova wrote in 1922. "Straighterthan you, more proud." Generations of Russians have described their couragein the same way, as something that is shared, unique to their culture, a virtueborn of suffering and nurtured by some deep, collective inspiration. Somewriters have imagined its source in the landscape, the forests, the steppe, thesnow, the boundless northern sky. Others have connected it with the earth,with clay or loam, "the Russian soil on which I was born." For many it hasbeen hardship itself that forges spiritual toughness. But almost every referenceto the mysterious quality of Russianness, to the Slav soul, locates it within themass, among the simplest people, a spark of the consuming Russian flamewithin each person's heart. "Darya Vlasyevna," wrote Ol'ga Berggol'ts in 1941,addressing an imaginary neighbor, an ordinary woman, in the depths of thehardest winter of the Leningrad blockade. "The whole land will be r

Author

Merridale, Catherine, 1959-

Publisher

Viking Adult; Viking

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670894741

Subjects

Anthropology, Social Science, History

Rating

4.16 / 5 (101 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14