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  1. Jan 1, 2009 · The story he unearths is, like his country's past, one of hopes, lies, cruelties, betrayals, but also love. In Red Love he captures, with warmth and unflinching honesty, why so many dreamed the German Democratic Republic would be a new world and why, in the end, it fell apart. 272 pages, Hardcover.

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  2. Apr 1, 2014 · In this winner of the European Book Prize, Leo not only produces a moving family memoir, but also a probing exploration of the human need to believe and belong -- Kirkus. A wry and unheroic witness an unofficial history of a country that no longer exist -- Julian Barnes.

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  3. Red Love (Russian: Василиса Малыгина, Vasilisa Malygina) is a Russian novel in 1923 by Alexandra Kollontai, a prominent female Bolshevik theoretician. It was translated in 1927 into English and Japanese. The novel asks deep question about the dynamics between Soviet socialism and the romantic life of Bolshevik women.

  4. Winner of the European Book Prize“Altogether extraordinary.” —The Los Angeles Review of Books “Family memoirs don’t come wittier than this little marvel.” —Irish Times Following three generations of German Jews, this “absolutely enthralling” family memoir about life in the GDR during and after World War II reveals what held ...

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  5. Apr 25, 2014 · In this compassionate memoir, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Leo examines his family's deep connections with East Germany – his war-hero grandfather Gerhard, his committed yet disillusioned...

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  7. Oct 25, 2021 · Red love : the story of an East German family. by. Leo, Maxim, 1970- author. Publication date. 2013. Topics. Leo, Maxim, 1970- -- Family, Journalists -- Germany -- Biography, Germany (East) -- Social conditions, Germany (East) -- Biography. Publisher.

  8. Plot. This film, based on a novella by Alexandra Kollontai, is about the Soviet women's rights activist and revolutionary Vasilissa, who wants to emancipate herself from her domineering lover Vladimir, the director of the trade cooperative. As a last resort, she has only the murder of the bitter patriarch.

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