I Want to Live
by Nina Lugovskaya
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385608713
- ISBN 13
- 9780385608718
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Synopsis
Recently unearthed in the archives of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, Nina Lugovskaya’s diary offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin’s Russiawhen fear of arrest was a fact of daily life. Like Anne Frank, thirteen-year-old Nina is conscious of the extraordinary dangers around her and her family, yet she is preoccupied by ordinary teenage concerns: boys, parties, her appearance, who she wants to be when she grows up. As Nina records her most personal emotions and observations, her reflections shape a diary that is as much a portrait of her intense inner world as it is the Soviet outer one. Preserved here, these markingsthe evidence used to convict Nina as a counterrevolutionary”offer today’s reader a fascinating perspective on the era in which she lived.
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- Seller
- Bonita (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 0385608713.G
- Title
- I Want to Live
- Author
- Nina Lugovskaya
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385608713
- ISBN 13
- 9780385608718
- Publisher
- DOUBLEDAY (TWLD)
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- June 5, 2006