ISBN: 9780618605750

I WANT TO LIVE: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia by Nina LugovskayaRecently unearthed in the archives of Stalin?s secret police, the NKVD, Nina Lugovskaya?s diary offers … Mehr…

I WANT TO LIVE: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia by Nina LugovskayaRecently unearthed in the archives of Stalin?s secret police, the NKVD, Nina Lugovskaya?s diary offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin?s Russia?when fear of arrest was a fact of daily life. Like Anne Frank, thirteen-year-old Nina is conscious of the extraordinary dangers around her and her family, yet she is preoccupied by ordinary teenage concerns: boys, parties, her appearance, who she wants to be when she grows up. As Nina records her most personal emotions and observations, her reflections shape a diary that is as much a portrait of her intense inner world as it is the Soviet outer one.Preserved here, these markings?the evidence used to convict Nina as a ?counterrevolutionary??offer today?s reader a fascinating perspective on the era in which she lived.?Reader Reviews:5.0 out of 5 stars A talented writer.The first thing that struck me about this book was the quality and insight of Nina's writing. She began this series of diaries at age 13, and was already far beyond her years in comprehending the horrific world of raids, disappearances, hunger, and fear in which she lived. Most of the entries are about young girl things, similar in content to such books as Ann Frank's diary and the writing of a young Viet Minh surgeon - "Last Night I Dreamed of Peace." Young people have the remarkable talent to live through times of adversity and suffering and still dream of flawless love and hope. The world through a young person's eyes is purer and less encumbered by the lives they have led. A young girl's diary and so much more.?5.0 out of 5 stars A bird longing for freedom in a cage of repression.The diary of a sensitive, intelligent and moody young girl against the backdrop of the purges and and politicide of Stalinist Russia.This book like The Diary of Anne Frank and the Diary of Eva Heyman (both child victims of the Nazi Holocaust) tells of the life through the eyes innocent young girl at a time of totalitarian terror and mass murder.Nina mainly talks of boys, her friends, her moods, her family and her own angst.But given the fact that her father had been a Social Revolutionary ( a party opposed to the Bolsheviks) and is now imprisoned for being a 'counterrevolutionary', anything Nina wrote when the diary was seized by the NKVD and Nina and her family arrested and deported to a labour camp can be charged with being counterrevolutionary, under the sick system of communist dictatorship.What we get a picture of is a magnificent young writer, a deeply intelligent girl with an eye for detail and analysis of her friends and family and a time and place where humanity is under the jackboot of a cruel ideology and the degenerates who inevitably rise to positions of power under such a system.She reveals the peculiarities and personalities of the people who live with her and wher firends at school, her budding sexuality and her intellectual development.Inevitably she would write of her hatred for such a system as any intelligent person of substance would think like her.?5.0 out of 5 stars An ordinary life in extraordinary times.I was captivated by this presentation of the diaries of Nina Lugovskaya and recommend it to anyone moved by the affect of cataclysm on deeply human lives.Nina's words create the longing for the impossible ¬- wanting to meet the person at the centre of it all and wanting to know, wanting to feel, what her life was really like. How do you live a prosaic life in the midst of tumult? A life both 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' at the same time - a fate shared then as now - by unknown millions. How do such situations come to exist, how do they come to warp the concerns of daily life?These questions remain vital for the world today. Think Iraq; Zimbabwe; North Korea; Chechnya; choose your country.The only qualifiers in works such as `I Want to Live' are the invisible hand of the editor - how much of the diary has been edited out? The reader may never know. The unnecessary value judgements of Nina's opinions included in some footnotes to chapters(how does this serve the author or the reader at all?) and the use of a colloquial style of translation, with cliched, TV expressions like - `anytime soon' - words that Nina herself would never have used. These things serve to degrade the reader's experience.An interesting feature of the diary is how Nina, especially for such a young person, seemingly knew about events in the Soviet Union that apparently she `shouldn't have' - could it be that the Soviet people knew more about the dreadful things happening in their society than western commentators give credence? Perhaps.In any case, `Bravo Lugovskaya!' a spirited `ordinary' life lived in sad and troubled times., Goed, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Bestes Angebot, [LT: BestOffer], Book Title: I Want to Live : the Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia, Item Length: 8.2in. Intended Audience: Young Adults, Publication Year: 2007, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Item Height: 0.9in. Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Topic: Social Science / Politics & Government, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Girls & Women, People & Places / Europe, Item Width: 5.5in. Item Weight: 15.5 Oz, Number of Pages: 304 Pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9780618605750

HMH Books for Young Readers. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Po… Mehr…

HMH Books for Young Readers. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., HMH Books for Young Readers, 2.5<

2007, ISBN: 9780618605750

HMH Books for Young Readers, Gebundene Ausgabe, 304 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-06-18T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.05 kg, New Adult, Liebesromane, Kategorien, Bücher, Historisch, Biogra… Mehr…

HMH Books for Young Readers, Gebundene Ausgabe, 304 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-06-18T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.05 kg, New Adult, Liebesromane, Kategorien, Bücher, Historisch, Biografien, Jugendbücher, Europa, Geschichte, HMH Books for Young Readers, 2007<