The World I Left Behind: Pieces of a Past

New York, NY: Random House, 1995. First edition. First Edition stated. Hardcover. xviii, 392 p. Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Robert Conquest. With touching, terrifying revelations, this candid account by the niece of the man who headed the USSR for 18 years has the history, poetry, and passion of a great Russian novel. "Moving, rich in detail...and a great general view". --Robert Conquest, The family was the Brezhnevs, and the author is Luba Brezhneva, niece of the man who led the Soviet Union for eighteen years-but who in the end could not protect her. These are the touching and terrifying revelationsof a child of both privilege and persecution. The story is of her transformation from a provincial schoolgirl into an outspoken young woman who move among, and then rebelled against the elite of Moscow. Includes an Index. Translated into English from the Russian by Geoffrey Polk. "Important insights into the milieu of the Soviet leadership...But, more, the record of life of a sensitive, intelligent woman...one of those human stories which sometimes emerge."-Robert Conquest, Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling.

Keywords: Leonid Brezhnev, NKVD, KGB, Cossacks, Dissidents, Khrushchev, Korovino, Nomenklatura, Serbsky Institute, Forensic Psychiatry

ISBN: 9780679439110

[Book #66771]

Price: $35.00

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