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I Want To Live

The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia

By Nina Lugovskaya

Hardcover | 9780618605750

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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 Russiawhen fear of arrest was a fact of daily life. Like Anne Frank, thirteen-year-old Nina is conscious of the extraordinary dangers around Continue

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 Russiawhen 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 markingsthe evidence used to convict Nina as a "counterrevolutionary" offer todays reader a fascinating perspective on the era in which she lived.

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  • I was a teenage anarchist ... nearly

    I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia by Nina Lugovskaya Doubleday £16.99, pp267 'This diary gives a good insight into my character,' wrote 17-year-old Russian schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya in 1936. 'The pettiness of my soul stand ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • If only ...

    I Want to Live by Nina Lugovskaya Doubleday, £16.99 The book: Passionate, powerful and important diary of a teenager in Stalin's Russia which was discovered recently in KGB files with certain passages underlined. The diary helped convict Nina and her ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 304 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0618605754
  • ISBN-13: 9780618605750
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Pub date: Jun 18, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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