"The thoughtful memoirs of a disillusioned daughter of the
Russian Revolution.... A sometimes astonishing, worm s-eye view of
life under totalitarianism, and a valuable contribution to Soviet
and Jewish studies." Kirkus Reviews
"In this engrossing memoir, Leder recounts the 34 years she
lived in the U.S.S.R.... She] has a marvelous memory for the
details of everyday life.... This plainly written account will
particularly appeal to readers with a general interest in women s
memoirs, Russian culture and history, and leftist politics."
Publishers Weekly
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, who was not
permitted to leave, would spend the next 34 years in the Soviet
Union. My Life in Stalinist Russia chronicles Leder s experiences
from the extraordinary perspective of both an insider and an
outsider. Readers will be drawn into the life of this
independent-minded young woman, coming of age in a society that she
believed was on the verge of achieving justice for all but which
ultimately led her to disappointment and disillusionment. Leder s
absorbing memoir presents a microcosm of Soviet history and an
extraordinary window into everyday life and culture in the Stalin
era."
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