I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia

I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
ISBN-10
0618605754
ISBN-13
9780618605750
Category
Political persecution
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Nina Lugovskai︠a︡

Description

"... offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin's Russia, where fear of arrest was a fact of daily life."--Inside flap of dust jacket.

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