Cultivating Their Dachas
Sheila Fitzpatrick: ‘Zhivago’s Children’, 10 September 2009
Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
by Vladislav Zubok.
Harvard, 453 pp., £25.95, May 2009,978 0 674 03344 3 Show More
by Vladislav Zubok.
Harvard, 453 pp., £25.95, May 2009,
“... History has its moments of euphoria when people embrace in the streets out of sheer love for their neighbours, police horses are garlanded with flowers, and everyone understands that the old lies and repression are gone for ever. I’m not sure that these moments occur in Britain. Certainly they didn’t in the Australia where I grew up in the 1950s, and as a result I’m always bemused when I hear them spoken about: do such things really happen in the world beyond? I’ll never know because I always missed the moment ... ”