SOLVED. Soviet historical novel about a band of Stalin-era university students, once close friends, later flung apart by history, with some rising to positions of power and deciding fates, while others were dispatched to the gulag. [s]

[Daisy]

I haven't read this book but I'd like to. I hope it's all right to ask this here.
Here's all I know:
It's "about a band of Stalin-era university students, once close friends, later flung apart by history, with some rising to positions of power and deciding fates, while others were dispatched to the gulag."
Thanks in advance.
Daisy

[Ayshe]

Maybe Children of the Arbat?

[Daisy]

Thank you. That might be it. Thanks very much.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

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[Kate]

Daisy ~~
We like to have direct confirmation from you before we mark this book as solved and shelve it. Was Children of the Arbat your book? Please let us know either way.
Thanks!

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[Daisy]

I think I can confirm this. Thank you.