I Want to Live : The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
by Nina Lugovskaya
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- Hardcover
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- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618605754
- ISBN 13
- 9780618605750
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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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- Title
- I Want to Live : The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
- Author
- Nina Lugovskaya
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 7
- ISBN 10
- 0618605754
- ISBN 13
- 9780618605750
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 2007
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