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The Accidental Anarchist (2010)

by Bryna Kranzler(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0984556303 (ISBN13: 9780984556304)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Tbd

review 1: Yakov Maratek was a Polish Jew conscripted into the Russian army in 1904 at the height of the Russo-Japanese war. After two hellish years in service of the Czar, Yakov was filled with dreams of the glorious revolution to come. This book tells the story of his ill-fated attempts at being a revolutionary and the numerous times he faced the death sentence and narrowly escaped by the skin of his teeth.Before reading this I didn't know anything other than that the title was interesting. I'm glad I read it. This is a truly compelling story pieced together from the real life diary entries of Yakov Maratek translated and conveyed by no less than three generations of his family. I wound up reading the whole thing inside of two days.A fantastic account of a truly remarkable ... morelife.
review 2: The book is immensely readable. The humor of the main character comes through loud and clear. The only thing that sits uncomfortably with me is how much if it might have had liberties taken with the truth of the story. If al major events are true, it's an astonishing story. However, the skeptic in me has a hard time swallowing all of it. Assuming events are fairly accurate, it was a good primer on an era and war I knew little about. less

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