"... Holmgren gives a superb comparative analysis of the literary legacy of the two memoirists." -- Times Literary Supplement "Beth Holmgren's book is a highly

"... Holmgren gives a superb comparative analysis of the literary legacy of the two memoirists." --Times Literary Supplement "Beth Holmgren's book is a highly o

Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities

During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in ev