1927, RARE, Stavroula Katsilomiti, Under the Sword of the Bolsheviks, First Edition

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ΣΤΑΥΡΟΥΛΑ ΚΑΤΣΙΛΟΜΗΤΗ 

ΚΑΤΩ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΠΑΘΙ ΤΩΝ ΜΠΟΛΣΕΒΙΚΩΝ – Kato apo to spathi ton Bolsevikon

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Τρεις εποχές σ’ ένα βιβλίο 1917-1919-1922

 

STAVROULA KATSILOMITI 

UNDER THE SWORD OF THE BOLSHEVIKS

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Three Seasons in a Book 1917-1919-1922

 

Printed in Athens by N. Stefanopoulos, 1927

8vo, 16,5cm x 12cm (approx. 6,75inch. x 4,75inch.)

Pages 62. Original paper covers.

First Edition

 

 

The author Stavroula Katsilomiti cites her personal testimony and what exactly she experienced during the years 1917 – 1919 – 1922, as stated in the subtitle of her book. Her testimony is spontaneous but also restrained. He records the events with simplicity, without exaggeration, emotional charge, fanaticism. She reveals her personal and family sympathy for the “whites” as the tsarist army is described, and she does not hide her hope for a short overthrow of the Bolsheviks. Although he preferred the former regime, as he had no political knowledge, nor was he personally acquainted with the ferments that were taking place, the inciting effervescence and political reshuffles, he only assumed that in the interior the masses of the people were starving and suffering from the civil war for the supremacy of the White or Red. He understood very clearly that the common people did not know, nor did they understand the new things they were hearing. He belonged to an affluent family of the Greek diaspora, who had made a fortune with their honest work. She loved the country that hosted them, she often praises it because it created the conditions for a comfortable life for them, but always in her mind, her real homeland was her Greece, which she brought into her soul with nostalgia and love, as a land of promise.