Sofia Petrovna: Persephone Number 149 by Lydia Chukovskaya, Aline Werth

Sofia Petrovna: Persephone Number 149

Lydia Chukovskaya, Aline Werth

144 pages first pub 1965 (editions) user-added

fiction classics historical reflective medium-paced
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“A book about a society gone mad…” One of the few surviving contemporaneous accounts of the Great Purge, Sofia Petrovna is an intense, brave, brief piece of writing composed secretly in a school notebook in lilac ink during the winter of 1939-40.

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