Like a drop of ink in a downpour : memories of Soviet Russia /

"Alëna Lembersky is a young girl growing up Soviet Russia in the 1970s. Though her life in Leningrad is circumscribed by the deprivation of Communist regime, it is also full: full of her family's love, her friends, her school, the richness of her vivid imagination, and the legacy of her g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Lembersky, Yelena (Author), Lembersky, Galina (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, 2022
Subjects:	Lembersky, Galina Lembersky, Yelena Artists > Soviet Union > Biography Jews > Soviet Union > Biography Prisoners > Soviet Union > Biography Russian Americans > Biography Women > Soviet Union > Biography Artistes > URSS > Biographies Femmes > URSS > Biographies Juifs > URSS > Biographies Prisonniers > URSS > Biographies Artists Jews Prisoners Russian Americans Women Soviet Union > Biography Soviet Union Biographies

Table of Contents:

Names and places
Alëna : a daughter's childhood (In the woods
From the beginning
Village in a stack
Rain and frost
The shared and the unspoken
A time to uproot
Pápochka
To fairyland
Within and without)
Galia: a mother's past (The rain you accidentally saw
My childhood
The decision to emigrate
Innovating at the railway
Working at the supermarket
Managing at the beauty salon
Kosmétika's district branch
The unplanned
Krestí Prison
The Zóna: Sáblino Labor Camp
City of bitter)
Alëna: the daughter's coming of age (Adolescence
A time to wait
Drawing with erasers
On the ladders)
"MEMORY" by Galia Lembersky

Like a drop of ink in a downpour : memories of Soviet Russia /

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