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On 3 October 2023, beneath the dome of Les Invalides, the French Republic honours Hélene Carrere d’Encausse – renowned historian of Russia, member of the Académie Française, national figure. Among the mourners stands her son, Emmanuel Carrere, wondering who this formidable woman truly was: to the country, to history, and to him.
In Kolkhoz, Carrere turns his unflinching gaze on his own lineage, crafting his most intimate and ambitious book yet. From aristocratic Russia to Soviet Central Asia, from émigré salons to the shadow of the gulag, he traces the destinies of a family scattered by revolution, ideology and pride. There are white Russian ancestors clinging to vanished grandeur; relatives lured back to Stalin’s USSR and swallowed by silence; a father obsessed with genealogy and lost nobility; and, at the centre, a mother whose brilliance, ambition and authority shaped both French intellectual life and her son’s inner world.
As Carrere sifts through letters, archives and contested memories, he confronts the stories families tell to survive and the lies they tell to protect one another. What does it mean to inherit exile and privilege at once? How do political faith and historical catastrophe reverberate across generations? And can a son write about his mother with honesty without betraying her?
By turns sweeping and surgical, tender and unsparing, Kolkhoz is a family epic and a reckoning: a meditation on communism and its afterlives, on filial piety and rebellion, and on the uneasy border between truth and love.
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In Kolkhoz, Carrere turns his unflinching gaze on his own lineage, crafting his most intimate and ambitious book yet. From aristocratic Russia to Soviet Central Asia, from émigré salons to the shadow of the gulag, he traces the destinies of a family scattered by revolution, ideology and pride. There are white Russian ancestors clinging to vanished grandeur; relatives lured back to Stalin’s USSR and swallowed by silence; a father obsessed with genealogy and lost nobility; and, at the centre, a mother whose brilliance, ambition and authority shaped both French intellectual life and her son’s inner world.
As Carrere sifts through letters, archives and contested memories, he confronts the stories families tell to survive and the lies they tell to protect one another. What does it mean to inherit exile and privilege at once? How do political faith and historical catastrophe reverberate across generations? And can a son write about his mother with honesty without betraying her?
By turns sweeping and surgical, tender and unsparing, Kolkhoz is a family epic and a reckoning: a meditation on communism and its afterlives, on filial piety and rebellion, and on the uneasy border between truth and love.
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street
D02 YH68 Dublin
productsafety@penguin.co.uk
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Data wydania: 03.09.2026
Liczba stron: 416
Wymiary: 16.4x24.1
Typ okładki:twarda okładka
Wydawca: Vintage Publishing
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Tytuł:Kolkhoz
EAN: 9781911717669
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