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(October 30th, 1899 – December 29th, 1980)
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (née Khazina; Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам, née Хазина) was a Russian-Jewish writer and educator. She is best known for her memoirs (Hope Against Hope, and Hope Abandoned</em) on the subject of her husband's struggles, arrest, and death under Stalin's regime. They were first circulated in the 1960s as samzidat.
Mandelstam’s husband was Osip Mandelstam, a poet. After his death in 1938, Mandelstam lived a mostly nomadic life, constantly fleeing arrest and the authorities. She was determined to preserve her husband’s heritage — and memorized his poems so that they could not be destroyed. After the death of Stalin and the lessening of the oppressive regime, she succeeded in having his poetry published along with her own memoirs.
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It is essentially Nadezhda’s account of her own suffering and her country’s under the murderous, oppressive force of a dictator’s relentless purges of all opposition. Of art and culture. Of intellectuals and anyone who got in his way or was inconvenient.
