Julia Mickenberg's Russian Reads
Julia Mickenberg, author of American Girls in Red Russia (University of Chicago Press), shares her five favorites about the Soviet Union.
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Visions and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, by Richard Stites
Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism, by Christina Kiaer
Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932, by Lisa Kirschenbaum
Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin, by Jochen Hellbeck
My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back, by Mary Leder
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Small Comrades is a fascinating examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations and self-representations are not entirely separable, this book probes how the Soviet regime's...
Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Writing a diary, like other creative expression,...
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...