Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia: A Life in the Shadow of Stalin’s Terror

A memoir from a woman with intimate knowledge of Stalin’s cruelty, Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia (Bloomsbury Academic) is the story of Ludmila Miklashevskaya’s upbringing, exile, false imprisonment, and later, her rehabilitation. Elaine MacKinnon ’83’s translation is the first in English.

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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April 2026

Inside the new ES and SEAS complex; kudos for austerity; jazz at Princeton.