Up from serfdom : my childhood and youth in Russia 1804-1824 / translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson ; foreword by Peter Kolchin.

By:

Nikitenko, A. (Aleksandr), 1804 or 1805-1877

Contributor(s):

Jacobson, Helen Saltz

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300130317
0300130317
9786611722067
6611722068

Uniform titles:

Moi︠a︡ povestʹ o samom sebe. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Up from serfdom.DDC classification:

891.709 B 21

LOC classification:

PG2947.N5 A3 2001eb

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Contents:

Contents -- Foreword by Peter Kolchin -- Translatorâ€?s Note -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Up from Serfdom -- 1. My Roots -- 2. My Parents -- 3. Fatherâ€?s First Attempt to Introduce Truth Where It Wasn't Wanted -- 4. My Early Childhood -- 5. Exile -- 6. Home from Exile -- 7. Father Returns from St. Petersburg -- 8. 1811: New Place, New Faces -- 9. Our Life in Pisaryevka, 1812â€?1815 -- 10. School -- 11. Fate Strikes Again -- 12. Waiting in Voronezh -- 13. Ostrogozhsk: I Go Out into the World -- 14. My Friends and Activities in Ostrogozhsk

15. My Friends in the Military General Yuzefovich; The Death of My Father -- 16. Farewell, Ostrogozhsk -- 17. Home Again in Ostrogozhsk -- 18. The Dawn of a New Day -- 19. St. Petersburg: My Struggle for Freedom -- Translatorâ€?s Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index

Summary: Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy

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Based on Nikitenko's diaries.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.

Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy