I Want to Live The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia

Name: I Want to Live The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
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ISBN: 9780618605750

ISBN-10: 0618605754

ISBN-13: 9780618605750

Edition: 2007

Authors: Nina Lugovskaya, Andrew Bromfield, Anne Fine

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Recently unearthed in the archives of Stalins secret police, the NKVD, Nina Lugovskayas diary offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalins Russia-when 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 markings-the evidence used to convict Nina as a…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 6/18/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

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Foreword



Introduction


Nina's Friends and Relations


The First Notebook


The Second Notebook


The Third Notebook


Excerpts from the Letters of Nina's Father


Bibliography and Further Reading


Picture Acknowledgments