A life-long chain of ordeals awaits a woman, who spent her childhood and adolescence in Shanghai, only to be forcibly moved to the USSR, in 1933, on the insistence of her father, who opted out of going to the Palestine ( Read more... )

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https://www.rp-net.ru/book/archival_materials/ivelskiy.phpThis is a very simply but vividly written memoir of a poor émigré's sojourn in China, from his arrival in 1924 to his departure in 1950. During this time he lived in Harbin, Tianjin and Shanghai, always scraping the bottom, working as a dockworker, a bodyguard and a truck driver. He ( Read more... )

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Benedikt Sarnov on tracking down prohibitied literature in the special depositary of the Lenin's Library in the 1950s ( Read more... )