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Finelly

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Books in Russian about the Revolution
« on: August 06, 2005, 03:00:53 PM »
My great aunt, before she died, told us that her father (my great grandfather) was mentioned in a Russian book about the Revolution.

Naturally, when we looked thru her effects, there was no such book.  (I say "naturally", because that would make it tooooo easy!)

If anyone has any Russian books on the revolution (I would think they would have been published before, say, 1970), and are willing to look in the indexes to see if his name is mentioned, could you please do so?  The surname is Lipschutz, I don't know what the Russian spelling would be.  And the first name would be Karl or Chaim.

hikaru

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2005, 03:32:44 PM »
Will it be spelled like Lifshits? or not?
Because we have quite a common family Lifshits.

hikaru

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2005, 03:33:34 PM »
I mean Lifsheats.

Finelly

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2005, 03:39:47 PM »
Entirely possible.  It's been spelled every which way on immigration documents, etc!

AlexP

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« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2005, 12:29:59 AM »
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I mean Lifsheats.



Hikarushka, Belochka,

To assist the above-mentioned poster, you may wish to consider the following:

1.  Look at the lists of the Gorodskaya medizinskaya upravlenyia for the years 1917-1919.  They do exist, and they were kept in Peter particularly after really hard times hit the city. They were broken down by neighbourhood -- who was the doctor responsible for which neigbourhood, etc., etc.

2.  Look at the lists of those in the Goskomitet bezaposnostii, which recruited actively from the newly-energized and emanicipated-from-Tsarist-era-restrictions classes.  I do not know if these lists survived Stalin's time but they did exist and they contained all of the names of those who joined this organization.

3.  Look a the lists of the Soviet Gocovet for the period 1917-1919.  They maybealso contain the names which the above-poster is seeking.

4.  Look at the "cpicok" of the reorganized St. Petersburg Imperial University (I do not know what name it was given after the Revolution) for the names of the rector, the titled professors, etc., etc.

5.  Finally, with the fall of the monarchy, the publication of one, perhaps two, Yiddish-language dailies in St. Petersburg was allowed.  I do know if copies of any these have been kept but they might provide the most direct assistance to the above-mentioned reader.

With kind regards from Shanghai,

A.A.


Finelly

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2005, 12:36:15 AM »
I know the following:

1.  The item in question is a history book.

2.  It is not a list or a public record.

3.  It is in Russian, not yiddish.

I've already gotten geneaological records including the lists of which you posted.

AlexP

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2005, 12:45:53 AM »
Hikarusha, Belochka, Mike,

As I mentioned in my earlier posting, could you confirm for intellectual sense of curiousity whether the items to which I allude still indeed do exist in the Russian Archives and in what condition and what they might contain.

I would be particularly interested to consult the list of the members of the members of Goskomitet bezaopostnostii.

Thank you, each of your, for your kind help.

With kind regards from Shanghai,

A.A.

lexi4

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2005, 01:00:58 AM »
Whew! Some of this is way over my head. Maybe I am out of my league. But what is Goskomitet bezaopostnostii? Also, someone mentioned Tolstoy's The Idiot, I have not read it. Can you tell me more? I have read War & Peace.

Elisabeth

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« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2005, 01:59:16 AM »
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Also, someone mentioned Tolstoy's The Idiot, I have not read it. Can you tell me more? I have read War & Peace.


Lexi, have you read any Dostoevsky? The Idiot is my favorite of all Dostoevsky's novels, but I wouldn't recommend it as a first-time read to anyone, because it might put you off Dostoevsky forever, it is so intense and difficult, not nearly as accessible as, say, Crime and Punishment or "Notes from the Underground." This novel is not about the Russian revolution, at least not on any obvious level, but instead represents Dostoevsky's first attempt to create a positive hero, in the character of Prince Myshkin. The prince is so good and naive, so kindly and honest, that he is actually Christ-like. And like Christ, he undergoes much suffering in his various attempts to bring love and tenderness into the lives of others. I highly recommend it, but only if you already love Dostoevsky!

lexi4

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2005, 02:05:04 AM »
Well now we know who the idiot is. I posted the wrong book with the wrong author. Yes, I have read Crime and Punishment. I even posted on the wrong thread. My brain is officially dead.
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Finelly

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2005, 02:11:29 AM »
LOL, Lexi.  Did you mean this to be part of the Required Reading thread?

lexi4

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« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2005, 02:15:49 AM »
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LOL, Lexi.  Did you mean this to be part of the Required Reading thread?

Yes.  :-[

AlexP

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2005, 02:33:16 AM »
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Well now we know who the idiot is. I posted the wrong book with the wrong author. Yes, I have read Crime and Punishment. I even posted on the wrong thread. My brain is officially dead.


Dear Lexi4,

Absolutely not.  It was a perfectly innocent mistake.  We are to learn and to share information.  You posted a very good choice.  I agree with Elizabeth, though, the Idiot is decidedly lugubrious.  And frankly, I find Dostoyevtsky just too foreboding.

Regards,

A.A.

lexi4

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Re: Books in Russian about the Revolution
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2005, 02:50:12 AM »
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Dear Lexi4,

Absolutely not.  It was a perfectly innocent mistake.  We are to learn and to share information.  You posted a very good choice.  I agree with Elizabeth, though, the Idiot is decidedly lugubrious.  And frankly, I find Dostoyevtsky just too foreboding.

Regards,

A.A.


Thank you.