Sofia Petrovna (paperback) Автор: Чуковская Лидия Корнеевна; Издательство: Northwestern University Press (США) Год издания: 1994 ISBN: 10: 0810111500; 13: 978-0810111509 Язык: русский

Аннотация:

Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya`s fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor`s widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor`s office, hoping against hope for good news. Confronted with a world that makes no moral sense, Sofia goes mad, a madness which manifests itself in delusions little different from the lies those around her tell every day to protect themselves. Sofia Petrovna offers a rare and vital record of Stalin`s Great Purges.