Author:
Miklashevskaya, Ludmila, 1899-1976, author.
ImprintLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Imprint2020
Descriptionxi, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:An abridged translation of Ludmila Pavlovna Miklashevskaya's memoir, Povtorenie proidennogo. --Translator's preface.
Note:An Odessa childhood -- Growing up during war and revolution -- A new life in Petrograd -- Gathering clouds: marital storms and emigration -- Homecoming and a new start in Moscow -- Love and marriage in Leningrad -- Motherhood in a time of a terror -- Into the vortex of suffering: ten years in the gulag -- Release, exile, and rehabilitation: the bittersweet taste of "freedom."
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (page 259) and index.
Note:This first-hand witness account- originally written by Ludmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine MacKinnon for the first time- tells the important story of one woman's persecution under Stalin. From Miklashevskaya's middle-class Jewish childhood in Odessa, to her life in exile as the wife of 'an enemy of the people' and false imprisonment in a labour camp for the attempted murder of NKVD leader Nikolai Yezhov, to her later attempts at rehabilitation, her memoir is a fascinating tapestry of Soviet artistic, intellectual, and political life set against the tumultuous backdrop of revolutions, wars, and repressive regimes. Accompanied by a translator's introduction and detailed historical explanatory notes, Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia sheds new light on the relationship between power, gender, and society in 20th-century Russia. This book is thus a vital primary resource for scholars of modern Russian history and gender studies, offering a compelling and personal route into understanding how the machinations of Soviet Russia. -- Provided by publisher.
