The Stalin Epigram: A Novel

Based on a true historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional account of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century-and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin. The poet's defiance of the Kremlin dictator and the Bolshevik regime- particularly his outspoken criticism of Stalin's collectivization rampage that drove millions of Russian peasants to starvation-reached its climax in ...