/408/ Was It Raining When You Fled Paris? ft. Peter Gourevitch

On the earth-shaking events of the 20th century, through a personal lens.

 

Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch sits down with political scientist Peter Gourevitch to talk about their shared family history.

• Why did their grandparents/great-grandparents become Mensheviks?

• How did one half of the family leave the USSR and the other half remain?

• What was life like in exile in Berlin before the Nazis took power? And how did the family know to flee?

• What was distinctive about fascism and the terroristic assault on democracy?

• How was the escape from Paris just like the film Casablanca?

• What happened to those who remained in the Soviet Union and how did one member meet death via torture?

• What is the legacy of Menshevism – and what is the relationship between socialism and democracy?

Links:

Who Lived, Who Died? My Family's Struggle with Stalin and Hitler, Peter Gourevitch, Dio Press

 

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