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1 online resource (xix, 484 pages) : illustrations. |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 553 |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; 553.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Alexandra Andreevna Voronine Yourieff, wife of Vidkun Quisling, reveals firsthand in this detailed memoir the tragedy, betrayals, misunderstandings, and happiness of her fascinating life. Not just a tale of saints and sinners, but of three peopleAlexandra, Quisling, and his second wife, Mariawhose fates were intertwined under the extreme conditions created by revolution, war, and famine in Russia. She discloses every particular of her long and tumultuous life, from her happy early childhood on the Crimean peninsula thorough the horrors of the revolution, her marriage to Quisling and his ultimate betrayals of both her and his country, to her later life in France and California. |
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Yourieff, Alexandra Andreevna Voronine -- Marriage.
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Quisling, Vidkun, 1887-1945 -- Marriage.
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Fascists -- Norway -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Scandinavia.
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Yourieff, Alexandra Andreevna Voronine -- Marriage. |
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Quisling, Vidkun, 1887-1945 -- Marriage. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
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Electronic books.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Subject |
Quisling, Vidkun, 1887-1945. (OCoLC)fst00017179 |
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Yourieff, Alexandra Andreevna Voronine. (OCoLC)fst00444312 |
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Fascists. (OCoLC)fst00921598
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Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
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Norway. (OCoLC)fst01204556 |
Added Author |
Yourieff, W. George.
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Seaver, Kirsten A., 1934-
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Freading.
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Added Title |
Alexandra Voronine. English
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Related To |
Print version: Yourieff, Alexandra Andreevna Voronine. Alexandra Voronine. English. In Quisling's shadow. Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007007696 |
ISBN |
9780817948337 (electronic bk.) |
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0817948333 (electronic bk.) |
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9780817948382 (electronic bk.) |
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0817948384 (electronic bk.) |
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0817948325 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780817948320 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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