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Based on a genuine historical occurrence, The Stalin Epigram is a imaginary account of the life span of Osip Mandelstam, possibly the best Russian poet of the twentieth hundred years—and one of the few performers in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin. The poet’s defiance of the Kremlin dictator and the Bolshevik plan— specifically his outspoken criticism of Stalin’s collectivization rampage that drove millions of Russian peasants to starvation—reached its climax in 1934 when Mandelstam, adding his life at risk, made up a searing indictment of Stalin in a sixteen-line epigram and secretly recited it to a handful of friends and fellow performers.
Would Stalin and his merciless point out security equipment get wind of this brazenly insulting poem? Would the poet’s body and spirit be smashed under the weight of their state if they does?
Narrated subsequently by Mandelstam himself, his committed better half, his great friends Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, and brilliant fictional personas, The Stalin Epigram is a page-turning tale of courage and the human spirit and illuminates the agonizing choices Russian intellectuals encountered through the Stalinist terror. In it, legendary author Robert Littell gives his most riveting suspense account and masterfully written book to date.
