My Life in Stalinist Russia
Subtitle: An American Woman Looks Back
Contributors: Laurie Bernstein (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780253214423
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: from c 1900 -; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Historical - General; Jewish - General; Women; Americans; Biography; Jews; Leder, Mary M; Political persecution; Soviet Union
First sentence: The Depression hit our family early.
Description: "In January 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 would spend the next 34 years in the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.