Description
In January 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager attending high school in Santa Monica, California, emigrated with the family to Birobidzhan, an area designated by the USSR as a Jewish socialist homeland. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and learning a trade in a factory. My Life in Stalinist Russia chronicles Mary's experiences for the next 34 years, through the First Five Year Plan, the Great Terror, World War II, the Soviet occupation and the Cold War. Her remarkable story provides an extraordinary window into everyday life and culture in the Stalin era.
