Chukovskaya: Sofia Petrovna (Russian Texts)

About this book

This is a fictional account of one womans experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Drawing on the authors own experience this novella paints an almost documentary-style picture of life in Leningrad during this period. The story of the publication of the book written in 1939-40 but not published in the Soviet Union until 1988 is treated in the introduction which also contains a brief biography of the author a vocabulary and notes.