Fifty Russian Winters: An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union by Margaret Wettlin

Main page

Editions

Fifty Russian winters : an American woman's life in the Soviet Union

by Margaret Wettlin

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
24	1	247,910	(4.17)	1

Add to your library

Add to wishlist

▾Book information

Info:	New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. viii, 324 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Member:	TooMuch
Collections:	Your library	Rating:
Tags:	None

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

mozler, jamesabg, hollyrock, tinymouse, private library, LarsonLewisProject, Jay_Huhman, jferguson77, MyBear, Celis03

numbers

show all

▾Tags

20th century (2) 2265 (1) Auto Biography (1) autobiography (1) Basement Bookies 2002 (1) biography (4) government (1) history (5) L9 (1) literature (1) memoir (4) mom (1) Mongolia (1) non-fiction (1) Non-Fiction - Life in Russia (1) own (1) read (2) reference (1) Russia (4) russian (1) Russian History (1) Soviet Union (3) Stalinism (1) storage. box 1 (1) United States (1) woman's memoir (1) women (1) women's history (1) women's stories (1)

▾Will you like it?

won't like will probably not like will probably like will like will love

▾Member reviews

Very interesting memoir of a woman who chose to live in the Soviet Union. The downfall, or should I say, disappointment of the book is that it resolves quickly after the author's harrowing experiences during WW2. (

)

bookweaver | Mar 10, 2007 |

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Series (with order)

Canonical Title

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Awards and honors

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English (2)

Censorship

Censorship in the Soviet Union

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

▾Book descriptions

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0471028770, Paperback)

A gripping account of Soviet life as experienced by an American who lived for 50 years on an absolutely equal basis with Russians. Packed with details of everyday life from giving birth in a Soviet hospital to living in a Moscow communal apartment. Forced to give up her American citizenship during Stalin's reign, Wettlin was coerced into becoming an informant for the KGB. She describes what Russia was like during and after World War II, her travels from the Baltic states to Siberia, Outer Mongolia, Leningrad, Uzbekistan and Georgia. Her mesmerizing book offers a background for understanding Soviet events that molded the Russian mind--from revolutionary enthusiasm to a complete repudiation of communism.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400)

▾Open Shelves Classification

The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details.