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The Nansen Factor : Refugee Stories / Alexandra Grabbe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)Content type:
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  • 9798887195100
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS3607.R24
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Author’s Note -- Contents -- The Errand -- The Picnic -- Out of This World -- Walnuts -- The Announcement -- No Imposition -- The Horror of It All -- Time of the Pale Green Light -- “La Petite Boche” -- The Mother, the Daughter, and the Con Man -- Hanky-panky -- The Revelation -- Buried Treasure -- The Courage It Takes -- Shamil -- The Pilgrimage -- Acknowledgements
Summary: “A compassionate rendering of acclimation and its many challenges.” - BooklistThis bold debut collection of stories follows the lives of those displaced by the Bolshevik Revolution and their descendants, shining a light on the lasting impact of displacement and the resiliency of the human spirit.Norwegian diplomat Fridtjof Nansen created a passport for stateless persons used by refugees as a valid travel document from 1922-1937. The world is all too aware of what has happened to Russia in the century since then-Lenin, Stalin, and now Putin with his iron-fist policies and invasion of Ukraine. But what about the aristocrats whose ancestors governed Russia before Communism? How did they fare in displacement? Civil War, Red Terror, and Bolshevik rule caused over one million to flee Russia. Written by the daughter of one such émigré, The Nansen Factor traces the lives of these refugees and their descendants across a century of upheaval and displacement. From the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution to the echoes of the past in modern-day America, these interconnected tales vividly portray the resilience of individuals uprooted by history at a moment when migrants are once again on the move in search of refuge, highlighting how the pain of losing one’s homeland may fade, but the injury to the psyche is slow to heal.
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Frontmatter -- Author’s Note -- Contents -- The Errand -- The Picnic -- Out of This World -- Walnuts -- The Announcement -- No Imposition -- The Horror of It All -- Time of the Pale Green Light -- “La Petite Boche” -- The Mother, the Daughter, and the Con Man -- Hanky-panky -- The Revelation -- Buried Treasure -- The Courage It Takes -- Shamil -- The Pilgrimage -- Acknowledgements

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“A compassionate rendering of acclimation and its many challenges.” - BooklistThis bold debut collection of stories follows the lives of those displaced by the Bolshevik Revolution and their descendants, shining a light on the lasting impact of displacement and the resiliency of the human spirit.Norwegian diplomat Fridtjof Nansen created a passport for stateless persons used by refugees as a valid travel document from 1922-1937. The world is all too aware of what has happened to Russia in the century since then-Lenin, Stalin, and now Putin with his iron-fist policies and invasion of Ukraine. But what about the aristocrats whose ancestors governed Russia before Communism? How did they fare in displacement? Civil War, Red Terror, and Bolshevik rule caused over one million to flee Russia. Written by the daughter of one such émigré, The Nansen Factor traces the lives of these refugees and their descendants across a century of upheaval and displacement. From the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution to the echoes of the past in modern-day America, these interconnected tales vividly portray the resilience of individuals uprooted by history at a moment when migrants are once again on the move in search of refuge, highlighting how the pain of losing one’s homeland may fade, but the injury to the psyche is slow to heal.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)