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Title: The Denouncer
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Novel
ISBN-10: 1589799674
Format: Hardback
Author: Paul M. Levitt
EAN: 9781589799677
ISBN: 9781589799677
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Release Date: 08/07/2014
Description: Denunciation became so commonplace under Stalin that people regarded it as their patriotic duty to spy on others and even expose members of their own family. The original Bolsheviks, for reasons of ideological purity, put great store in transparency. But under Stalin, transparency evolved into a state of constant surveillance. In the late 1930s, a young man named Sasha Parsky kills two soldiers who come to arrest his parents as kulaks. He escapes arrest—though not suspicion. Sasha, now under greater scrutiny, is asked by Boris Filatov, the chief of the local secret police, to take a position as the head of a small boys’ school with the condition that Sasha spy on the previous director, who was dismissed for political reasons. As Sasha’s visits to the exiled man turn into discussions on politics and Sasha begins making changes at the school, it is only a matter of time before anonymous letters denouncing him begin to appear on Filatov’s desk. But even more ominous is the appearance of two men from the past who have the knowledge to do Sasha great harm. Caught between Filatov and the fear of exposure, Sasha risks everything by testing the fidelity of a loved one.
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Historical Fiction
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 236mm
Item Length: 160mm
Item Width: 24mm
Item Weight: 535g
Release Year: 2014

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