Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Julia AlekseyevaSeries:Comix JournalismAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2017-01-10Pages:192
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Microcosm PublishingISBN-13:9781621069690ISBN-10:1621069699UPC:9781621069690Book Category:Comics & Graphic Novels, HistoryBook Subcategory:Nonfiction, Contemporary Women, JewishBook Topic:Biography & MemoirSize:7.80 x 5.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC17929C0Y
Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter. This is the story of Julia Alekseyeva and her great-grandmother Lola, two extraordinary women swept up in the history of their tumultuous times. Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB), a lieutenant for the Red Army, and later as a refugee in the United States. Interwoven with Lola's history we find Julia's own struggles of coming of age in an immigrant family in Chicago and her political awakening in the midst of the radical politics of the turn of the millenium. At times heartbreaking and at times funny, this graphic novel memoir unites two generations of strong, independent women against a sweeping backdrop of the history of the USSR.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Microcosm PublishingISBN-13:9781621069690ISBN-10:1621069699UPC:9781621069690Book Category:Comics & Graphic Novels, HistoryBook Subcategory:Nonfiction, Contemporary Women, JewishBook Topic:Biography & MemoirSize:7.80 x 5.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC17929C0Y
Born in the former USSR and raised a proud citizen of Chicago, Julia Alekseyeva is an author-illustrator as well as an academic. She is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard, specializing in the avant-garde and film practices in France, Japan, and the former USSR. Julia has received press from publications such as Reuters, the New York Times, and Bloomberg Business for illustrating the first graphic novel legal brief, submitted as an amicus brief in USA vs. Apple. She has lived in Kiev, Chicago, New York City, Paris, Cambridge, Kanazawa, and Yokohama, and currently lives in Brooklyn with her partner Brandon and a dog named Leopold Bloom.
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