~ forthcoming titles ~ Spring 2011 Marooned in Moscow
The Story of an American Woman Imprisoned in Soviet Russia
978-1-880100-64-6
Marguerite Harrison went to Bolshevik Russia as a journalist, spy and humanitarian. Her autobiography, Marooned in Moscow, was first published in 1921, just months after her release from a Soviet prison. It provides a fascinating account of her entry into Russia in early 1920, people with whom she asso- ciated, her work as a journalist and a spy, her work on behalf of prisoners, her two arrests, and her ten-month imprisonment in the infamous Lubyanka prison. Harrison’s work came out a decade earlier than most other accounts of Soviet Russia and is very much in the tradition of John Reed’s Ten Days
That Shook the World, yet Harrison, unlike Reed, was a far from sympathetic voice. Never before re-issued, this special updated and edited version of Harrison’s memoir will include thorough historical annotations, plus new information gleaned from Har- rison’s NKVD file.
Jews in the Tsar’s Service Lev Berdnikov
In this collection of readable and multi-varied portraits, author Lev Berdnikov presents biographies of the most influential and powerful Jews to serve Russia’s tsars from the 15th to the 19th centuries. The gallery is guaranteed to shatter widely-held conceptions about the role of Jews in Russian history and life and includes portrayals of diplomats, advisors, entrepreneurs, politicians, a jester and a chancellor.
Berdnikov’s book, which has enjoyed considerable popularity in Russia, has been called “a weighty document of historical truth,” and been acclaimed for its “calm impartiality,” for the “sincerity of the author’s voice,” and for the depth and breadth of Berdnikov’s research into archives and other historical sources that have only recently become accessible.
14 Fall 2011
978-1-880100-65-3
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