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Nadezhda Mandelstam

Nadezhda Mandelstam
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Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980) was a Russian memoirist and the wife of poet Osip Mandelstam. After his arrest and death in a Soviet labour camp, she preserved his poetry from memory and later published it. Her memoir Hope Against Hope is a landmark testimony to Stalinist terror.

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