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My life in Stalinist Russia : an American woman looks back / Mary M. Leder ; edited by Laurie Bernstein ; with an introduction by Laurie Bernstein and Robert Weinberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leder, Mary M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leder, Mary M.
- Americans--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Americans.
- Jews--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Jews.
- Soviet Union.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union.
- Political persecution.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0253338662
- 0253214424
- OCLC:
- 44727798
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