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[John Gilinsky]

Gruzenberg, Oskar Osipovich  1866 – 1940
“Yesterday: memoirs of a Russian-Jewish Lawyer.”  (Translation of Vchera)
Los Angeles, California:  University of California Press Ltd., 1981
ISBN  0 – 520 – 04264 – 6

See especially Chapters 14 and 15: The Delirium of War, Parts 1 and 2 respectively.

Only part of one of these chapters is digitized and available online here as:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=PcIf_0GbTV...p;q&f=false

This memoir is fascinating in providing an elite view of the social and legal problems caused by the war right from the start.  I believe though I have not seen the entire work that the author was probably a military lawyer affiliated or even in the army.  War crimes, atrocities, refugees, ethnic minorities, cossacks, social history are just some of the war related topics dealt with in a highly literate (undoubtedly polished or emigre) memoir.  Highly recommended.

John
Toronto

[Ally Sloper]

Hello John

Thank you for posting this. His memoirs are fascinating and must try and get a copy of the book.

Ally