UNDER THE SICKLE AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER (edición en inglés) EBOOK | KIRSTI HUURRE
UNDER THE SICKLE AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER (edición en inglés) de KIRSTI HUURRE
- UNDER THE SICKLE AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER (edición en inglés)
- KIRSTI HUURRE
- Idioma: Inglés
- Formatos: pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
- ISBN: 9781803996707
- Editorial: The History Press
Overview
Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally published in 1942, as war still raged between Finland and Soviet Union. Its writer was a Finnish woman who emigrated to Russia in the 1930s, convinced the new egalitarian state and workers paradise would be a better life for her and her young son, hopeful once settled she could send for him. What followed was very different to what was promised: a life in constant fear, under intense government scrutiny, of purges and Great Wraths, good people imprisoned and shot; and state-run propaganda that spun a web of lies around its people. The author eventually escaped, defying the odds when so many of her friends and loved ones did not, and recorded her memories under a pseudonym in what became the second most censored book from Finnish libraries after the war. This is the first English translation of this important memoir, whose original preface states: I simply want to provide an honest account of what my friends and I had to live through under the "Stalinist sun".