Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer

Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer

by Kirsti Huurre and Anna Hyrske
Publication Date: 10/10/2024

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Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally published in 1942, as war still raged between Finland and Soviet Union. Its writer was a Finnish woman who emigrated to Russia in the 1930s, convinced the new egalitarian state and workers' paradise would be a better life for her and her young son, hopeful once settled she could send for him. What followed was very different to what was promised: a life in constant fear, under intense government scrutiny, of purges and Great Wraths, good people imprisoned and shot; and state-run propaganda that spun a web of lies around its people. The author eventually escaped, defying the odds when so many of her friends and loved ones did not, and recorded her memories under a pseudonym in what became the second most censored book from Finnish libraries after the war. This is the first English translation of this important memoir, whose original preface states: 'I simply want to provide an honest account of what my friends and I had to live through under the "Stalinist sun".'

ISBN:
9781803996707
9781803996707
Category:
Memoirs
Publication Date:
10-10-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
The History Press

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