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My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back

My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back

Leder, Mary M.
Weinberg, Robert
Bernstein, Laurie

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0253214424
ISBN13: 9780253214423
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Sep 13 2001
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.28
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

A sometimes astonishing, worm's-eye view of life under totalitarianism, and a valuable contribution to Soviet and Jewish studies. -Kirkus Reviews

In 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica, California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of miles from her family, with whom she had emigrated to Birobidzhan, the area designated by the USSR as a Jewish socialist homeland. Although her parents soon returned to America, Mary was not permitted to leave and would spend the next 34 years in the Soviet Union. Readers will be drawn into this personal account of the life of an independent-minded young woman, coming of age in a society that she believed was on the verge of achieving justice for all but which ultimately led her to disappointment and disillusionment. Leder's absorbing memoir presents a microcosm of Soviet history and an extraordinary window into everyday life and culture in the Stalin era.

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