Sofia Petrovna
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A landmark work of Soviet dissident literature, Sofia Petrovna chronicles the harrowing experience of a loyal Soviet typist whose life is shattered by Stalin's Great Terror of the 1930s. Written covertly in 1939–1940 and smuggled out of the USSR, Lydia Chukovskaya's novella presents an unflinching portrait of a woman's descent into denial and despair as her son is swept up in the machinery of Stalinist repression. With restrained, precise prose, the narrative illustrates how ordinary citizens were complicit in — and destroyed by — a system built on fear and lies. Translated by Aline Werth and revised by Eliza Kellogg Klose, this Northwestern University Press edition makes one of the twentieth century's most courageous acts of witness accessible to English-speaking readers. A searing, quietly devastating work, it stands as an essential document of life under totalitarianism.
Author: Lydia Chukovskaya
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels visible.
A landmark work of Soviet dissident literature, Sofia Petrovna chronicles the harrowing experience of a loyal Soviet typist whose life is shattered by Stalin's Great Terror of the 1930s. Written covertly in 1939–1940 and smuggled out of the USSR, Lydia Chukovskaya's novella presents an unflinching portrait of a woman's descent into denial and despair as her son is swept up in the machinery of Stalinist repression. With restrained, precise prose, the narrative illustrates how ordinary citizens were complicit in — and destroyed by — a system built on fear and lies. Translated by Aline Werth and revised by Eliza Kellogg Klose, this Northwestern University Press edition makes one of the twentieth century's most courageous acts of witness accessible to English-speaking readers. A searing, quietly devastating work, it stands as an essential document of life under totalitarianism.