My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back
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 w…
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Weitere Autoren: Weinberg, Robert (Solist) / Bernstein, Laurie (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-253-21442-3
- EAN: 9780253214423
- Produktnummer: 9692950
- Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.7 cm 581 g
- Gewicht: 581
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Mary M. Leder has lived in New York since her return from the Soviet Union in 1965.Laurie Bernstein is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, Camden, and author of Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia.Robert Weinberg is Associate Professor of History at Swarthmore College. He is author of The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps and Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and The Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland.
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