{"product_id":"9781911717669","title":"Kolkhoz","description":"On 3rd October 2023, beneath the dome of Les Invalides, the French Republic honours Hélène Carrère d'Encausse - renowned historian of Russia, member of the Académie Française, national figure. Among the mourners stands her son, Emmanuel Carrère, wondering who this formidable woman truly was: to the country, to history, and to him. In Kolkhoz, Carrère turns his unflinching gaze on his own lineage, crafting his most intimate and ambitious book yet. From aristocratic Russia to Soviet Central Asia, from émigré salons to the shadow of the gulag, he traces the destinies of a family scattered by revolution, ideology and pride. There are white Russian ancestors clinging to vanished grandeur; relatives lured back to Stalin's USSR and swallowed by silence; a father obsessed with genealogy and lost nobility; and, at the centre, a mother whose brilliance, ambition and authority shaped both French intellectual life and her son's inner world.","brand":"Emmanuel Carrère","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57231321006458,"sku":"9781911717669","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781911717669.jpg?v=1788529714","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781911717669","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}