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Sofia Petrovna

Lydia Chukovskaya

  • 128 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1988
  • 7 editions
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1 About this book

Sofia Petrovna is a novella by Russian author Lydia Chukovskaya, written in the late 1930s in the Soviet Union. It is notable as one of the few surviving accounts of the Great Purge actually written during the purge era.

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Good for readers who want: poetry and a short read.

  • Soviet union
  • Russia (federation)
  • Poetry

2 About Lydia Chukovskaya

1907–1996

Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская, IPA: ; 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 7, 1996) was a Soviet and Russian writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet repression, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov.

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