The world I left behind
Subtitle: pieces of a past
By: Luba Brezhneva ; translated by Geoffrey Polk.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Brezhneva, Luba, 1943-; Brezhnev family.; Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich, 1906- -- Family.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.
Description: The family was the Brezhnevs, and the author is Luba Brezhneva, niece of the man who led the Soviet Union for eighteen years - but who, in the end, could not protect her. These are the touching and terrifying revelations of a child of both privilege and persecution. The story is of her transformation from a provincial schoolgirl into an outspoken young woman who moved among, and then rebelled against, the elite of Moscow.