Fifty Russian Winters : An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union

by Margaret Wettlin

Release Date: February, 1994

Edition: Paperback

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Excellent book

An idealistic American woman comes to Russia in the 1930s, intending to stay for one year, and ends up living there for almost half a century. One of the best looks into average life during the heart of the Soviet days as well as a story of faith and disillusionment. Recommended.

excellent

Margaret Wettlin's book is insightful and very well written. She offers the reader a very personal account of her life under a regime which was as barbarous as any in history. Remarkably, despite all of the terrible events and deprivations she experienced in the Soviet Union, she expresses no bitterness or regret over her decision to live most of her life there. My only reservation about the book (and it is definitely not a reason to refrain from reading the book) is that her criticisms of the Soviet regime are far milder than that regime deserved.