Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia

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...