Leaving Leningrad
Li͡udmila Shtern
Li͡udmila Shtern. A nostalgic and humorous memoir of life under communism and capitalism. Although women writers have held a conspicuous place in the history of modern Russian literature, they have been slow to find their true voices in exile. Ludmila Shtern, a geologist/writer who immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1975, offers a completely fresh, unsentimental look at daily life in the former Soviet Union and in the United States in the second half of the ...