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Zusatztext [Ludmila Miklashevskaya's] memoir makes a very welcome contribution to the growing range of narratives that detail women’s everyday lives in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union as well as to the more specific testimonies of women’s experiences of Stalinist repression. Informationen zum Autor Elaine MacKinnon is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the translator of Mass Uprisings in the Soviet Union (2002, written by Vladimir Kozlov). Ludmila Miklashevskaya (1899 - 1976) was a Russian writer and editor, and wrote the autobiographical witness account of her life in Soviet Russia. Elaine MacKinnon is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the translator of Mass Uprisings in the Soviet Union (2002, written by Vladimir Kozlov). Zusammenfassung 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 destroyed everyday life, tearing families apart and leaving scars that never healed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator’s PrefaceIntroduction1. An Odessa Childhood2. Growing Up During War and Revolution3. A New Life in Petrograd4. Gathering Clouds: Marital Storms and Emigration5. Homecoming and a New Start in Moscow6. Love and Marriage in Leningrad7. Motherhood in a Time of Terror 8. Intro the Vortex of Suffering: Ten Years in the Gulag9. Release, Exile and Rehabilitation: The Bittersweet Taste of ‘Freedom’Further ReadingsIndex...
