Evgeny Brusilovsky. Memories with Comments and Illustrations
Edited by Nari Shelekpaev
Published by Tselinny Art Center
Typefaces Columba Ruby & Columba Text by @lewisandhistype
Typefaces Columba Ruby & Columba Text by @lewisandhistype
Hard cover, 170×248 mm, Mondi 60 gm, 1000 copies
Printed by Service Press in Almaty, Kazakhstan
ISBN 978–601–7158–06–4
Note from the publisher: The memoirs of E. G. Brusilovsky deserve interest for many reasons. Firstly, they are a valuable ego-document that not only describes the life path of Brusilovsky himself, but gives an idea of the country in which the author lived most of his adult life, and of the people with whom he communicated and worked in Kazakhstan. Many of these people were key figures in Kazakh politics and culture in the second third of the twentieth century. Secondly, the memoirs help to understand how the Sovietization of Kazakh culture took place in the 1930s and 1940s, shedding light on this process “from the inside.” In this way, they compare favorably with official sources, which inform the reader about what the local or union leadership wanted to achieve, but leave without attention to how exactly certain directives of the Soviet government were implemented. Thirdly, Brusilovsky’s diaries are of interest precisely because of their subjective view of Soviet Kazakhstan: not being a native of Kazakhstan, the author discovers the country for himself and writes about it with disarming frankness.
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