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Soviet Daughter - A Graphic Revolution

By: Microcosm Publishing

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels (Microcosm Publishing)


Product Info

Title
Soviet Daughter - A Graphic Revolution
Category
Author
Julia Alekseyeva
Publish Year
2017
Pages
192
Dimensions
6x8x.5"
NKG Part #
2148139823
Type
Softcover

Description

Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter.

This is the story of Julia Alekseyeva and her great-grandmother Lola, two extraordinary women swept up in the history of their tumultuous times. Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB), a lieutenant for the Red Army, and later as a refugee in the United States. Interwoven with Lola's history we find Julia's own struggles of coming of age in an immigrant family in Chicago and her political awakening in the midst of the radical politics of the turn of the millennium.