Elaine MacKinnon is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the translator of Mass Uprising in the Soviet Union (2002, written by Vladimir Kozlov).Ludmila Miklashevskaya (1899 - 1976) was a Russian writer, editor and typist.

[Ludmila Miklashevskaya's] descriptions of cultural and artistic circles in the early decades of Soviet power are absorbing and skillfully drawn. MacKinnon’s translation is lyrical, her annotations are useful, and her wide-ranging historical introduction makes Miklashevskaya's significant account accessible even to those with no background in Soviet history.

• Translator’s PrefaceIntroduction1. An Odessa Childhood2. Growing Up During War and Revolution3. A New Life in Petrograd4. Gathering Clouds: Marital Storms and Emigration5. Homecoming and a New Start in Moscow6. Love and Marriage in Leningrad7. Motherhood in a Time of Terror 8. Intro the Vortex of Suffering: Ten Years in the Gulag9. Release, Exile and Rehabilitation: The Bittersweet Taste of ‘Freedom’Further ReadingsIndex

Elaine MacKinnon is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the translator of Mass Uprising in the Soviet Union (2002, written by Vladimir Kozlov).Ludmila Miklashevskaya (1899 - 1976) was a Russian writer, editor and typist.

[Ludmila Miklashevskaya's] descriptions of cultural and artistic circles in the early decades of Soviet power are absorbing and skillfully drawn. MacKinnon’s translation is lyrical, her annotations are useful, and her wide-ranging historical introduction makes Miklashevskaya's significant account accessible even to those with no background in Soviet history.

• Translator’s PrefaceIntroduction1. An Odessa Childhood2. Growing Up During War and Revolution3. A New Life in Petrograd4. Gathering Clouds: Marital Storms and Emigration5. Homecoming and a New Start in Moscow6. Love and Marriage in Leningrad7. Motherhood in a Time of Terror 8. Intro the Vortex of Suffering: Ten Years in the Gulag9. Release, Exile and Rehabilitation: The Bittersweet Taste of ‘Freedom’Further ReadingsIndex

Elaine MacKinnon is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the translator of Mass Uprising in the Soviet Union (2002, written by Vladimir Kozlov).Ludmila Miklashevskaya (1899 - 1976) was a Russian writer, editor and typist.

[Ludmila Miklashevskaya's] descriptions of cultural and artistic circles in the early decades of Soviet power are absorbing and skillfully drawn. MacKinnon’s translation is lyrical, her annotations are useful, and her wide-ranging historical introduction makes Miklashevskaya's significant account accessible even to those with no background in Soviet history.

• Translator’s PrefaceIntroduction1. An Odessa Childhood2. Growing Up During War and Revolution3. A New Life in Petrograd4. Gathering Clouds: Marital Storms and Emigration5. Homecoming and a New Start in Moscow6. Love and Marriage in Leningrad7. Motherhood in a Time of Terror 8. Intro the Vortex of Suffering: Ten Years in the Gulag9. Release, Exile and Rehabilitation: The Bittersweet Taste of ‘Freedom’Further ReadingsIndex