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Sidetracked
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- Book Synopsis
- A bittersweet tale of war, survival, and the movies... With great wit and warmth, Alexander Voloshin's Sidetracked provides unique insight into one of the major human dramas of the twentieth century: the escape of some two million refugees from the collapsing Russian Empire in the wake of the revolutions of 1917. A former officer in the White Army, Voloshin spent the late 1920s and 1930s struggling to make a living in Hollywood as an extra. His lively yet poignant poem follows his countrymen as they resist the Bolsheviks in Ukraine, suffer crushing defeat, and take flight**x2014;first to Europe, then to New York, and, eventually, to Los Angeles. The chapters devoted to the lives of émigrés in Hollywood, which Voloshin knew so well, are a priceless document of the town's Golden Age, as viewed from the bottom up.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781589882126
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, (21 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 98
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 7 mm
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