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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The January 2026 cover of PAW, featuring a man and a woman and the headline "Empower Couple."
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January 2026

Giving big with Kwanza Jones ’93 and José E. Feliciano ’94; Elizabeth Tsurkov freed; small town wonderers.