Tag: Yelena Khanga

  • Escaping the oppression of a racist America, a black scientist named Oliver Golden took Soviet citizenship in the 1930’s and began a legacy for his family that endures in Russia today.

  • Three Very Rare Generations The New York Times 1992-12-13 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University Soul To Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992. By Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby. Illustrated. 318 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $22.95. AMONG its other consequences, the demise of the Soviet Union has…

  • Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992 W. W. Norton & Company 1994 318 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0393034046; ISBN-13: 978-0393034042 Paperback ISBN: ISBN 978-0-393-31155-6 Yelena Khanga (with Susan Jacoby) As the Soviet Union crumbled in early 1991, a young Russian woman in search of her past found her way to Mississippi, to the…