Hope Against Hope (autobiography)
Hope Against Hope may refer to: *an autobiographical work by Nadezhda Mandelshtam covering the period of Stalinism * Hope Against Hope (album), a noise rock Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, artists indulge in extre ...

Nadezhda Mandelshtam
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam ( rus, Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам, p=nɐˈdʲeʐdə ˈjakəvlʲɪvnə mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam, , Хазина; 29 December 1980) was a Russian Jewish writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the ''gulag'' of Siberia. She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive Stalinist regime: '' Hope Against Hope'' (1970) and '' Hope Abandoned'' (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward. Of these books the critic Clive James wrote, "''Hope Against Hope'' puts her at the centre of the liberal resistance under the Soviet Union. A masterpiece of prose as well as a model of biographical narrative and social analysis it is mainly the story of the terrible last years of persecution and torment before the poet er husband Osipwas murdered. The sequel, ''Hope Abandoned'', is about the author's personal fate, and is in some ways ...
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Stalinism
Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country, collectivization of agriculture, intensification of class conflict, a cult of personality, and subordination of the interests of foreign communist parties to those of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, deemed by Stalinism to be the leading vanguard party of communist revolution at the time. After Stalin's death and the Khrushchev thaw, de-Stalinization began in the 1950s and 1960s, which caused the influence of Stalin’s ideology begin to wane in the USSR. The second wave of de-Stalinization started during Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Glasnost. Stalin's regime forcibly purged society of what it saw as threats to itself and its brand of communism (so-called "enemies of the people"), which included ...
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Hope Against Hope (album)
''Hope Against Hope'' is the 1988 debut studio album by Band of Susans, released in 1988 on Blast First. The CD version includes their debut EP ''Blessing and Curse'', which contains "Sometimes" and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone". They were based in New York City. Track listing Personnel Adapted from ''Hope Against Hope'' liner notes. ;Band of Susans * Susan Lyall – electric guitar, backing vocals * Robert Poss – lead vocals, electric guitar, production * Alva Rogers – backing vocals * Ron Spitzer – drums * Susan Stenger – bass guitar, backing vocals * Susan Tallman – electric guitar ;Production and additional personnel * Chris Gehringer – mastering * John Herman – assistant engineer * Jim Klein – engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline ...
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