1976 SIX RUSSIAN MEN - LIVES IN TURMOIL Hanfmann / Beier PB

by Hanfmann

$75 · Offered by eBay

Six Russian Men: Lives in Turmoil by Eugenia Hanfmann and Helen Beier, published in paperback by The Christopher Publishing House, North Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1976. This is a scarce scholarly study running 218 pages, with a bibliography at the back, and it carries the ISBN 0-8158-0333-8. Both authors were clinical psychologists who grew up in Russia and earned their doctorates in Germany. Here they present detailed life histories of six men who escaped the Soviet Union, among them a colonel in the Red Army, a skilled worker, a young Communist, and a disadvantaged worker. Each man is examined through his interview behavior, personal history, relations to people, and ideology, with clinical tools such as the Thematic Apperception Test and sentence completions. A section of Soviet history in outline sets the stage, from the breakdown of the old regime through the Stalin years, the war, and the postwar period. The book is a rare window into how ordinary people lived with, resisted, and were shaped by Soviet society. The back cover carries endorsements from scholars at Harvard, Brandeis, and Princeton, who praise it as an extraordinary human document of real value to both lay readers and professional scholars. The paperback is in very good condition. The orange and white cover is bright and the black pen-and-ink tree illustration is crisp, with a printed price of $6.95 at the top right. There is a small crease along the left edge of the front cover and a patch of light hazing

• Year: 1976
• Condition: Very Good

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