HOPE AGAINST HOPE(ISBN=9780375753169)

    So writes Joseph Brodsky in his appreciation ofNadezhda Mandelstam that iS reprinted here as an Introduction．HopeAgainst Hope WaS first published in EnOch in，970．It is Nadezhda Mandelstams memoir of her!ire with Osip who WaS first arrested in l 934 and died in Stalin's Great Purge of l 937—38：HopeAgainst Hope is a vital eyewitness account ofStalin's Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments tO the value of!iterature and imaginative freedom ever written．But!t is also a profound inspiration--a!ore story that relates the daily sIrugge tO keep both!owe and art alive in the most desperate circumstances．