(E–pub New) [Софья Петровна] By Lydia Chukovskaya

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free download ☆ eBook or Kindle ePUB ç Lydia Chukovskaya review Софья Петровна 103 Lydia Chukovskaya ç 3 free read 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 caug. Lydia Chukovskaya s powerful short novel on the Stalin purges I found eually as fascinating as say Solzhenitsyn s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich but the big difference here is Sofia Petrovna takes place not in some far away labour camp but right in the heart of Leningrad Chukovskaya writes not only about the tragedy of a family but also that of a whole people caught up in the terror Sofia Petrovna the central character is widowed with a son Kolya a good student who she is very proud of and after taking a job in a Leningrad publishing house she flourishes well and soon becomes head typist Sofia Petrovna lives a simple life without bother is happy in her work and has bought into the Soviet system and accepts the changes that go with it but her comfortable world is shattered after she learns that a large number of physicians in the city have been arrested with one who was close to her husband As the arrests continue they start getting closer to home first the director of the publishing house then with devastation and great dread Kolya As he like so many others has a clear support for the regime Sofia Petrovna is convinced that nothing bad can happen to an honest man believing it s a simple mistake and she puts her heart and soul into trying to clear his name and things go from bad to worse after she learns he is to be sent off to a camp of unknown whereabouts Kolya is an exemplary Soviet youth and is innocent but that of course doesn t matter Showing the Soviet madness from the perspective of a loving mother who has always been supportive of the regime is left just as baffled as the reader as we are largely kept ignorant of what is truly happening behind the scenes Sofia Petrovna seeing her son and so many others sentenced suffers with great worry and is in despair as the purging continues but lucky in the fact that she is not found to be guilty by association When she does finally get word from her son that only offers a small amount of relief as her world has now become so insecure and unpredictable where no one can be trusted that the concept of any hope or justice has become entirely lostThis is a work that is as sad as it is shocking and all too real and even though the outline is bleak Chukovskaya s chilling details are totally absorbing throughout especially as Sofia comes only slowly to understand the true nature and magnitude of Stalin s purges It s a written in a simple and straightforward fashion that effectively portrays a poisoned system where there is nowhere and nobody to turn to for help as essentially everybody is crushed and powerless After the Falls right in the heart of Leningrad Chukovskaya writes not only about the tragedy of a family but also that of a whole people caught up in the terror Sofia Petrovna the central character is widowed with a son Kolya a good student who she is very proud of and after taking a job in a Leningrad publishing house she flourishes well and soon becomes head typist Sofia Petrovna lives a simple life without bother is happy in her work and has bought into the Soviet system and accepts the changes that go with it but her comfortable world is shattered after she learns that a large number of physicians in the city have been arrested with one who was close to her husband As the arrests continue they start getting closer to home first the director of the publishing house then with devastation and great dread Kolya As he like so many others has a clear support for the Then the Americans Came Voices from Vietnam regime Sofia Petrovna is convinced that nothing bad can happen to an honest man believing it s a simple mistake and she puts her heart and soul into trying to clear his name and things go from bad to worse after she learns he is to be sent off to a camp of unknown whereabouts Kolya is an exemplary Soviet youth and is innocent but that of course doesn t matter Showing the Soviet madness from the perspective of a loving mother who has always been supportive of the Hell in a Handbasket Devilish Debutantes #2 regime is left just as baffled as the Say Your Abc With Me reader as we are largely kept ignorant of what is truly happening behind the scenes Sofia Petrovna seeing her son and so many others sentenced suffers with great worry and is in despair as the purging continues but lucky in the fact that she is not found to be guilty by association When she does finally get word from her son that only offers a small amount of The Outcast Dead relief as her world has now become so insecure and unpredictable where no one can be trusted that the concept of any hope or justice has become entirely lostThis is a work that is as sad as it is shocking and all too

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free download ☆ eBook or Kindle ePUB ç Lydia Chukovskaya review Софья Петровна 103 Lydia Chukovskaya ç 3 free read Ht up in the maelstrom of the purge she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's office hoping against hope for any good news Confronted with a world that makes no moral sense Sofia goes ma. There is great acting in this novella I don t mean that this was cinematic exactly I mean that I was able to see each character And there were a lot of characters in that Russian wayThis is a novel about The Great Purge Sofia Petrovna is a doctor s widow and a true believer She trains to be a typist after her husband dies because everyone must work Her son joins the Komsomol Sofia Petrovna advances is spotlighted as an idealAnd then one by one she sees people exposed as saboteurs tried and convicted People she knows to be good and good Soviets Her son tooBut to get back to the acting There s a woman at work We never hear her speak Yet we know her intimately Another doctor s wife is introduced to us Her eyesHER EYEStell us all we need to know and Even Sofia Petrovna evolves from na vet to doubt to something beyondYes this book may fill a gap in an understanding of the Communist system But the acting is brilliant And for my fellow booknerdsI picked this up off the 2 clearance shelf largely because I really liked the other two European Classics series books I read The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and The Sins of Childhood and Other Stories This is really a spectacular series and ever expanding And I m hooked Then the Americans Came Voices from Vietnam really liked the other two European Classics series books I Hell in a Handbasket Devilish Debutantes #2 read The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and The Sins of Childhood and Other Stories This is Say Your Abc With Me really a spectacular series and ever expanding And I m hooked

free download ☆ eBook or Kindle ePUB ç Lydia Chukovskaya review Софья Петровна 103 Lydia Chukovskaya ç 3 free read D 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. For what it is this is good What is it The social realist small scale human truthful drama of a woman coming to terms with the abduction by the Stalinist state of her son Its power lies in its mundanity in its view of workplace politics of state sponsored peer pressure of mothers ueuing for hoursdaysmonths for the merest tidbits of information It has every appearance of complete truthfulness to life If I prefer my fiction a little less truthful to life that s no fault of Lydia Chukovskaya s Maybe it could have gone further though If its aim as stated by its author in the afterword was to show its protagonist s descent into madness I don t think it uite gets there but there s enough here to at least suggest how that descent might have proceeded As a reminder of what depths people can sink to through propaganda and political coercion and the ways in which that coercion manifests itself at street level this is powerful If nothing else it ll help put your Platonov Zamyatin and Akhmatova in context