Nikita Khrushchev's Teacher: Antonina G. Gladky Remembers: With Unique Insight into Nikita Khrushchev 's Politically Formative Years as a Communist Po

"Nikita Khrushchev's Teacher" memoir is intertwined with history as lived, documented, and remembered by Antonina G. Gladky, one of the millions of women, caught in the whirlwind of catastrophic historical events of the 20th century Russia and the Soviet Union. The events, written and narrated, tell with the authentic voice her life story.

Publisher Marketing: Nikita Khrushchev's Teacher is a treasure of an up-close, intensely personal story of a Russian woman--one of millions at that time--caught in the whirlwind of the catastrophic historical events of twentieth-century Russia and the Soviet Union. The story is intertwined with history as lived, documented, and remembered by Antonina G. Gladky. The events, written and narrated, tell with authentic voice her life story that is personal in detail and historical in scope. They document how the Russian revolution, the Communist Party, the Bolsheviks' totalitarian dictatorial regime, and Stalin's bloody terror shaped her fate. It is a rich source for memoir readers who value an authentic voice of real people sharing their thoughts, aspirations, and struggles to overcome adversities in their lives. It is a storehouse for inquisitive readers who choose to immerse themselves into the world of historical memoirs to discover details of daily life, customs, and traditions that have been lost with time and vanished from the memory of new generations. And there is a rare bonus for history lovers, history buffs, and historians-- the unique insight of Nikita Khrushchev's teacher into his politically formative years as a communist politician and a rising Party Leader. The story begins with the peaceful life of Antonina's ancestors in Old Russia and her happy childhood growing up in a small provincial town in southeastern Ukraine. It brings to life the not-so-distant past with its rich details of daily life, customs, and traditions that have been lost with time and vanished from the memory of new generations. World War One, the Russian Revolution, and Civil War brought chaos and destruction to the country and suffering and loss of life to people from battles, hunger, and disease. Antonina's family tragedy struck at the time when she was starting her independent life as a teacher. But the course of her life had changed forever when she married Orest, her former student and White Army veteran, who returned home after fighting Reds to save his Motherland in the last battles for Crimea. After the Bolsheviks have seized the power and established the Soviet Union--the first socialist state--Antonina and Orest, like all the people in the country, became pawns of the Communist totalitarian regime. To keep its control over the population, the State used fear, terror, and persecution of suspected enemies, among them White veterans who were disenfranchised and declared to be "enemies of the people." Antonina's family life became a struggle to survive not only the adversities imposed by the Soviet government on its people but also to prevent her husband from being caught by the secret police. To evade inquiries into his White Army veteran past, they moved from place to place in their native Ukraine looking for teaching positions in remote villages and small hamlets where there was a shortage of teachers and the inquiries took more time. Notwithstanding constant fear and tension, Antonina and Orest remained always true to their profession as educators. --Oliver W. Kellogg, Editor and Publisher: The Baudette (MN) Region--The Guttenberg (IA) Press. Table of Contents : Contents Prologue Winter of 1917 Part One: Life in Old Russia The Origins of Berezhnoy Family The Ancestry of Berezhnoy Family How Danil and Anna Berezhnoy Lived Gavryusha Learns a Trade Gavriyl Danilovich Berezhnoy The Matchmaking Golden Childhood A Petition to the Tsar The Contagious Disease Trachoma My Little Sister Natasha The Thunderstorms My Parents Were Devoted Christians The Easter Holidays Christmas Christmas Festivities New Year's Eve and Epiphany Our Parents Loved Us Learning Right from Wrong My Mother Was a Thrifty Housewife Kharkovsky Street Learning to Be a Teacher My Sister Tanya Students in Kharkov Starting Out in Life The Ukrainian Folk Dance Hopak Part Two: Revolution and Civil War We Are the Masters Medieval Execution White Army Volunteers Part Three: Bolsheviks Have Seized the Power My Native Home The New Masters A Tragic Refuge Part Four: Life in Socialist Soviet Union Polytechnization The Courtship and Marriage I Was in Love It's Time to Go! The Town of Yusovka Rabfak Student Nikita Khrushchev Khrushchev as a Political Figure at Rabfak Part Five: Stalin's Dictatorship Ukrainization of Schools The Village School Nikitovka's Last Gentleman Cross and Needle In the Hamlet of Snyezhnoye My Father Returns to Live with Us Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Outbreak The Raging Snowstorm Sharing the Apartment Digging into My Father's Past The Extraordinary Meeting Hamlet Kisyelyevka In the Waiting Room Return to My Hometown of Slavyansk Being a Part of the Big Berezhnoy Family The Keynote Speaker at the Conference The Newspaper Proofreader A Fight for Our Garden Teachers' Conference in Kiev Part Six: Germany Invades Soviet Union The War Comes Closer to Home Three Days of Anarchy The Germans Arrive in Slavyansk Epilogue Brief Description : "Abridged from "In the Web of History: Old Russia and Soviet Union - Book One of Historical Family Memoirs", by Olga Gladky Verro." Publisher Marketing : Nikita Khrushchev's Teacher memoir is intertwined with history as lived, documented, and remembered by Antonina G. Gladky, one of the millions of women, caught in the whirlwind of catastrophic historical events of the twentieth-century Russia and the Soviet Union. The events, written and narrated, tell with the authentic voice her life story that is personal in detail and historical in scope. It documents how Russian Revolution, Civil War, Communist Party and Bolshevik totalitarian dictatorial regime, and Stalin's bloody terror shaped her fate. The story begins with the peaceful life of Antonina ancestors in Old Russia and her happy childhood growing up in a small provincial town in southeastern Ukraine. Antonina's family tragedy struck at the time when she was starting her independent life as a teacher. But the course of her life had changed forever when she married Orest, her former student and White Army veteran, who returned home after fighting Reds in the last battles for Crimea. Their family life became a struggle to survive not only the adversities imposed by the Soviet Government on its people but also to prevent her husband from being caught by the State secret police. To evade inquiries into his White Army veteran past, they moved from place to place in their native Ukraine. The book has a bonus for the memoir readers, history buffs and historians - the unique insight into Nikita Khrushchev's politically formative years as a Communist politician and a rising party leader. Nikita Khrushchev's Teacher is abridged from "In the Web of History: Old Russia and Soviet Union" - Book One of Historical Family Memoirs

Format: Paperback | Pages: 424 | Publication Date: 2018-12-28