Fifty Russian Winters: An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union
As an idealistic young college graduate, Wettlin set off in 1932 to see the new Soviet state for herself. She stayed to marry a theater director, raise two children, pursue a career as an English teacher and translator, and spent a lifetime in the Stalinist Soviet Union. Although she counted Moscow as home, she lived with her family in cities stretching from Mongolia to Latvia and has recorded all the personal joys and pains of Soviet life from revolutionary hope and faith through repression, purges, famine, and war. Wettlin's autobiography is remarkable for its scope, both for the geography and the human experience described. Her tale is the more effective and touching for its honesty and simplicity. Fifty Russian Winters is written for a general audience. Recommended for collections of all sizes.- Rena Fowler, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., MarquetteCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.