num_pages: 192
description: Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB) and later as a lieutenant for the Red Army. Her family, including 4-year-old Yulia, moved to the U.S. in the wake of Chernobyl and forged a new life.
  Soviet Daughter
 united two generations of strong, independent women against a sweeping backdrop of the history of the USSR. Like Sarah Glidden in 
  How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
, or Marjane Satrapi in 
  Persepolis
, Alekseyeva deftly combines compelling stories of women finding their way in the world with an examination o the ties we all have with out families, ethnicities, and the still-fresh traumas of the 20th century.
language: English
title: Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
publisher: Microcosm Publishing