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This is a fictional account of one woman's experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Drawing on the author's own experience, this novella paints an almost documentary-style picture of life in Leningrad during this period. The story of the publication of the book, written in 1939-40 but not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, is treated in the introduction, which also contains a brief biography of the author, a vocabulary and notes.

Chukovskaya: Sofia Petrovna

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    A Paperback by Lidiia Chukovskaia, Lydia Chukovskaya, J. Murray

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 26/02/1998
      ISBN13: 9781853995101, 978-1853995101
      ISBN10: 185399510X
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a fictional account of one woman's experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Drawing on the author's own experience, this novella paints an almost documentary-style picture of life in Leningrad during this period. The story of the publication of the book, written in 1939-40 but not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, is treated in the introduction, which also contains a brief biography of the author, a vocabulary and notes.

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