My Lives in Russia by Fischer, Markoosha

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, red titles on spine, [vii], 269, [1] pp. Extremities rubbed. DJ has two 2 cm tears, other small chips & tears; in Brodart archival cover. The author, Russian-born wife of American journalist Louis Fischer and herself a gifted translator and interpreter, writes about her personal experiences living in the Soviet Union during 1921 and 1927-39. As a personal memoir, it hardly mentions the disastrous famines first under Lenin and in the 1930s under Stalin. However, while impressed by attempts at improving health care and housing, and providing mass education for the first time in Russian history, she was not blind to the crimes and absurdities of Communist government, and particularly its frequent reversals of policy and criminalization of those who had most loyally implemented the previous party line. It is especially enlightening for its view of everyday… Read More