
The Face of Fire
Oleksii Nikitin(Author)
Harvard University Press
Will be published approx. on 27. October 2026
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-674-30420-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the wake of the horrors of civil war, the Holodomor, and Stalin's purges, the young Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife, Feliksa, are looking ahead to a brighter future in Kyiv. Ilya, the top heavyweight boxer of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, is primed for victory as champion of the entire Soviet Union. Feliksa, a country girl and a star athlete in track, is deep in training for a major race. Then the Nazi invasion in the summer of 1941 changes everything.
The Face of Fire offers a tapestry of Ukrainian life under the brutal Soviet and Nazi regimes-all based on declassified People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) files and Oleksii Nikitin's family archive.
The Face of Fire offers a tapestry of Ukrainian life under the brutal Soviet and Nazi regimes-all based on declassified People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) files and Oleksii Nikitin's family archive.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-674-30420-8 (9780674304208)
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Persons
Oleksii Nikitin, a former physicist and journalist, is one of the most prominent Russian-language writers in Ukraine today. His novels include Istemi, Madzhong, Victory Park, Sanitar s Institutskoi, and Ot litsa ognia. Catherine O'Neil is Associate Professor of Russian at the United States Naval Academy and translator of Juliusz Slowacki's Agamemnon's Tomb: A Polish Oresteia. Dominique Hoffman has taught courses in Russian language, history and culture. Her previous translations include Yaroslav Hrytsak's The Forging of the Nation and Olena Stiazhkina's Cecil the Lion Had to Die.